Karina Pandya

She enters a room and is alone, but she is happy. Another girl enters a different room, where there are  a few people in it, but this girl feels absolutely lost, anxious and disconnected with everything around her.  How can that be? Its a typical, happy, social situation, right?   Guess Not! Psychologically these t wo girls are experiencing very different emotions. One girl is just ‘physically alone’ but the other is experiencing ‘psychological’ and ‘emotional’ signs which are very hazardous to health. What is about loneliness that drains a person so much? Why is happiness so difficult to attain or rather to sustain? Loneliness is a complex and rather unpleasant emotional response to being alone- or rather being isolated or in a constant lack of contact between the society and other individuals. There are many different reasons why a person could feel lonely and it could all be a mixture of social, emotional, mental and physical factors.   “Whe...

“I’m feeling, happy; wait that's just a lie I tell myself. I’m honestly feeling empty, isolated, confused and I don't know who I should trust in life.” This is a tiny  glance into the life of a person suffering from depression. Its hard to admit things, especially when it comes to our mental health, isn't it?  Depression is not a small fluctuation in our mood  but a constant of low mood and aversion towards any type of activity. In fact the person suffering from depression doesn't even realise but his thoughts, feelings, behaviour and sense of well being are all getting affected.   It’s common to feel sad, anxious, worried and even empty when you are in such a state.   While it is very normal to feel down once in a awhile, if you are perpetually sad most of the time then it probably means you have clinical depression. You may have to seek treatment for the same and talk to a therapist and perhaps make some adjustments and changes in your l...

Did you ever realise that homeless animals outnumber homeless people and the main reason animals are even in shelters is because their owners gave up on them OR animal control authorities found them on the street? Do you even know how many stray cats and dogs are killed every year JUST because the shelters are too full or there just aren’t enough adoptive homes? It’s pretty sad, isn’t it? In India, the Animal Welfare Board of India is the statutory advisory board advising the Government and was established as early as 1962. However, this was only under a section of the Prevention of Cruelty of Animals Act, 1960. There was a lot of cruelty involved when animals were used for entertainment purposes. This cruelty- to bring to your attention included animal abuse, animal neglect in both the unintentional and intentional infliction by humans upon animals. Specifically it meant causing harm or suffering to the animal in order to achieve some human gains such as for...