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Side Effects of Living: An Anthology of Voices on Mental Health

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Author Edited by Jhilmil Breckenridge and Namarita Kathait
ISBN 9789385606205
Published Language English
Publication Year 2019
Publisher Speaking Tiger & Women Unlimited
Binding Paperback
Pages 224
Ships By 2-3 days
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?This book is beautiful and it is brave. We can only salute the courage with which all these writers have let us into their lives, to give us a glimpse into the multiple worlds of what we have described and stigmatized as mental illness. Read them.??JERRY PINTO, author Em and the Big Hoom and Murder in Mahim

There are different sizes of bodies. There are different shades of the mind. There are different states of mind in distress. Side Effects of Living presents the words and verses of survivors, writers, poets and artists, who are struggling with a mental condition or have watched their loved ones suffer. Through first-person life experiences and moving poetry, they attempt to destigmatise mental health issues, as they describe what happens when the mind gives in?or gives up. Why does it happen, and can we do anything about it?

Refreshingly honest, always uplifting, this collection urges us to reject the shame and blame that often accompanies mental illness.

About the author
Jhilmil Breckenridge is a poet, writer and activist. She is the founder of Bhor Foundation. Her areas of work include mental health, domestic violence and trauma. She vociferously opposes forced psychiatry, supports the rights of persons with psychosocial disability and advocates for compliance with the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD). Breckenridge is currently working on her PhD in the UK. Namarita Kathait is a poet who performs spoken word poetry on stage. She has done her Masters in Creative Writing from the University of Westminster, UK, and English Literature from Delhi University. The co-founder of Bhor Foundation, she firmly believes in poetry?s power to heal. Her poems reflect on mental health, loneliness, and relationships in the digital age.

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