Mental disorders, such as anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder and PTSD, are often hidden features, when it comes to youth around the world. These illnesses are heavily more so unnoticed in the music industry among popular artists. However, mental disorders, and those closely related to the listed above disorders, have recently seemed to have become more
As of Monday, Dec. 18, 2017 (South Korea time), one of K-pop’s biggest stars Kim Jonghyun from SHINee has sadly and suddenly passed away. He was found unconscious at his rented apartment studio in Seoul and was quickly rushed to the hospital but was pronounced dead not long after. Police suspected he might’ve committed suicide
As someone with major depressive disorder, I absolutely loathe how it controls me day to day and sucks the life out of every possible action. As a Hindu, Deepavali, or our festival of lights, has always been a cause for celebration; it becomes hard to celebrate when that light dims and starts looming ahead you.
Just like periods, dark skin and a career in the arts, mental health issues are just another one of those subjects that live in a perpetual cloud of stigma within Indian society. According to Art with Impact, at least 60 million Indians struggle daily with mental illness — but only one in 10 receive treatment. A
Spoken word is a word-based performance art that focuses on voice inflection along with diction. Recently, there has been a large push for spoken word poetry with YouTube channels like Button Poetry and a plethora of other recorded performances. Due to the fact the audience can hear the emotion in the presenter’s voice, spoken word is extremely
It’s no secret that 13 Reasons Why brings up strong emotions in people. It has professional psychologists, parents and schools weighing in. Hundreds of articles have been written about it and in every lunch break, without fail, you hear it from across the cafeteria. That’s a pretty big reach for one TV show. There is no denying
This poem was written mostly just to let out all the overwhelming feelings and thoughts I had when I was getting diagnosed and didn’t really know how to explain it to people and well, this happened. Everyone around me was kind of scared of what was happening and I was too, I felt like I
