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Suicide has always been a sensitive issue in our society and open conversations about it are not always welcomed. But the least we can do to prevent something as saddening as suicide is to start talking about it.<\/p>
Suicidal thoughts strike, when a person gives up and considers death as the only solution that can put an end to all the problems that exist. A lot of issues in life can make us feel hopeless and low about ourselves but suicide is never a way out. It won\u2019t solve any problem. It just leaves behind your mess for others to deal. Instead of creating a negative impact by taking a step like this, one should make a little more effort in getting through the struggle. Still if things seem out of control there\u2019s no wrong in seeking help from someone. <\/p>
There were a lot times when I couldn\u2019t fight back against the things that put me down. Like, I was a chubby child and it was fun for my friends and adults to tease me for being that way. Referring me as teddy bear and other things of that sort didn\u2019t bother me much but things like asking only my weight in front the whole class just to embarrass me which a teacher of mine did, used to hurt me a lot. This made me feel extremely conscious about my body. I didn\u2019t participate in school dances and sports for a long time while all the other children did and it made me feel lonely and helpless. Nevertheless, I did not think that it was the end and started working on my self. <\/p>
\nI come from a conservative family, restrictions and rules were way too many for me during my teenage as I\u2019m a girl. The way I dressed, the friends I made, the way I behaved and talked was all controlled by my family. And whenever I fought against it, all I got was humiliation in front of my cousins and other family members. At that age, I felt locked up and clueless. I took my time to fight back again and constantly reminded my family by talking to them, about the way I wanted to be without any unnecessary restrictions. Till today, discussions go on but things are a lot better for me than earlier. I don't want a life that\u2019s under someone\u2019s control. And considering how strongly almost everyone in my family denied my freedom I could have easily given up. But I chose to hope for the better and kept fighting. <\/p>
Turning point in a student\u2019s life is the performance in competitive exams after 11th and 12th. You career gets decided for you with just a few multiple choice questions! My parents got my admission in a good college, expensive enough for an upper middle class family to afford but still they wanted me to get the best coaching to crack JEE. Expectations on me were high, and caused more stress than the exams that I had to clear. Despite the best resources I had, I couldn\u2019t live up to anyone\u2019s expectations and didn\u2019t qualify the exams to get into IIT due to reasons like lack of practice or strategy or whatever..! It was demoralising and I doubted my own capabilities for a period of time because of this. Now, this is where most of the students are giving up and ending their lives. But out of my own experience I suggest students going through this kind of phase to take their time and figure things out eventually. This is what I\u2019m doing. Career is your personal choice and it\u2019s okay even if doesn\u2019t meet others\u2019 expectations as long as you are happy with it. <\/p>
Problems and the way people choose to deal with them vary but suicide is definitely not the way. Today is suicide prevention day, do contribute your part in easing the conversations about this by sharing your own experiences.\n\n<\/p>"}]
Now let's have a discussion on heart and mind, which one is great? \n\nToo much too little can throw us off balance. We put emphasis on one thing and soon forget that there is another world too. It\u2019s not easy to snuggle both the worlds but it is very important to create a balance. It is similar to the balance that you create between your personal and professional life.\n\nThe more you reside in one world, the less you have remembrance of the other. Without the understanding of the balance, you may have money but you will always lack peace. Similarly, when you follow your heart but neglect the sound impulses of your mind, your life won\u2019t be content. A mind in equilibrium is a mind at peace and a peaceful mind is the key to a successful life.\n\nYou need to learn when to run, when to stop, and when to simply walk.\n\nWe move towards the things we like and away from the things we don\u2019t. Consciously or subconsciously, these polarities influence our decisions or behaviour. We behave nicely with the people we love and brutally with the ones we don\u2019t care about.\n\nBut sometimes without our willingness, life throws us into situations that we have always tried to avoid. The journey of life has a multitude of emotions and experiences to offer. Some of these are good and some aren\u2019t.\n\nTraining our mind to attain equilibrium towards all circumstances in life isn\u2019t a cakewalk.\n\nYou must believe that your mind and your heart can walk on the same path together. \" Listen to your heart and get involved with your mind.....\"<\/p>","type":"txt","id":1568115533732}]
Today, the 10th of September, is recognized as the World Suicide Prevention Day. Suicide rates have been increasing at an alarming rate over the last couple of decades in almost every other country regardless of their development in Mental Health care. No professional help has yet reached every corner that it's supposed to reach and that is exactly why we as humans must look around us and see how our friends and acquaintances are doing in their lives and whether they need some help or just an ear which would hear them out; with zero judgement. <\/p>
Discussing about someone who had terrible episodes of wanting to quit and give up but later realized that they could hope for new dimensions in life plays a key role in helping people with similar struggles confide in people that they trust in. That is exactly what you're all going to read about today, about a friend of mine whose name is Jeevana Mounika. I asked her whether she wants to keep herself anonymous but she refused by emphasizing on how talking about this with no shame is important. The names of the other people involved in her experiences have been changed to respect their privacy.<\/p>
Jeevana was about 17 when she entered into IIT, KGP. Until then, she always had someone around her taking care of her so the environment where she had to manage everything by herself with a diverse group of people didn't go down well with her ever since the beginning. Watching films of every genre and picking things up from them because cinema did that to her, Jeevana started to think that she'd always been a messed up person whom nobody loved and whom her parents never understood. She started getting inclined towards a guy called Nishith by observing the striking similarities of how he used to care for her the same way that Varsha, her intermediate friend used to care for her. She dated Nishith for a while and things started to fall apart when Nishith hit the sensitive spots of her brain by pointing out her appearance and asking her to change the way that she looked. She felt helpless and triggered because that's how she's always looked and her complexion\/weight were one of the reasons for which she used to be bullied in school as well. She had no love to give to herself ever since the beginning and when someone who she so dearly loved abandoned her saying that she wasn't attractive enough, she lost every little ray of hope that she had. She hated herself and walked the path of self destruction. That was the first time that Jeevana had attempted suicide. But then, there were a couple of materialistic mistakes from her end which kept people at bay and they ended up not attending to her mental health issues.<\/p>
A couple of months after all the chaos, Jeevana met a person called Neel who played the silver-lining in her life for a long time. She felt nice, comfortable, loved and at home. She was used to toxic love and was getting attracted to broken people out of the urge to heal them and feel better about herself. It was as though she believed that if there wasn't anything unusual happening in her life for a while, she would walk herself to the trouble and invite it. She ended up cheating on Neel with Varshith, it worsened things for her and Neel, Neel had to face a lot of trauma due to Jeevana and the relationship went down the drain. That was when she hated herself and her emotional oppression and exhaustion made her gulp down 44 pills. This was her second attempt. Soon, she realized that she was trying to kill herself every time that she was denied something that she hoped for. She figured that she had become too self-centered which made her immune to the trouble that she inflicted on people around her. <\/p>
She took time out for herself and started figuring things out, getting serious about her future and looking for ways to live the life that she hopes to live, she got inked with a semi-colon and decided that she is not going to give up trying to be a better person for herself and for others in her life, both. She realized that she was going psychotic by wanting to know whether her death would reflect her pain onto people around her or not. All this self evaluation and revelation happened through months altogether consisting of severe anxiety and depression. She got a hold on her impulses.<\/p>
Jeevana grew more patient with her life and filled herself with a positive spectrum of emotions each time that she felt helpless. She achieved this with the help of the people around her who assured her that they love her and that she is not her past. She says that she met a person called Vishal who made her realize that she needn't be so impulsive and reactive to everything that comes and hits her in life. He taught her that the will to hold on and become better is far greater than the will to die. After Neel's exit from her life, Jeevana had self-harmed a lot many times and one of those was when she used to burn herself with cigarettes. I still remember being terrified of that situation. She used to sit with a knife in her hands for days altogether but then there is never an end if you don't want it to be one. Vishal and Jeevana bonded over a story of Vishal's friend who had committed suicide. That was why Jeevana believed in Vishal to help her out of her situation and he never disappointed her. He never gave her love. He gave her positivity through which she started to learn how to love herself. For every question that Jeevana had about herself, Vishal had a known experience or a story that made Jeevana have a better perspective about her life and the setbacks that she faced. She started becoming more self-aware than ever. She stopped being the victim.<\/p>
She confesses that maybe the reason that so many people are as broken as she is, is because they do not have enough love or faith residing in themselves, everyone needs to understand how important it is to never leave the battle ground mid-way. For Jeevana, her ray of hope came in the form of Cinema and Vishal. She stopped wasting her time on unnecessary thoughts and controlled her energy from being drained. She started directing her love for Cinema in the right way and now writes for her own movie review page called 'Cinema Pilla.' Jeevana also started working at a firm to establish a serious routine that she lacked until now. She healed while she accepted herself and saw Vishal accepting her for the way she is. People can sometimes think of you on such a high note that you actually put in efforts to better yourself and match up to their image of you, in a good way, a bright and a fueling way. Vishal had helped Jeevana in doing that with herself and she's never felt this better before. <\/p>
She's healing. She's not learnt all about life and hope but she believes that it's okay and that there's more light as the days pass by. She will grow, live and learn. So will you, me and everyone of us. Jeevana lived through 2 suicide attempts and myriad self-harm episodes but found people and reasons to hold onto. She started finding her own self which she first held onto and later spread her love and warmth around. Channelize your interests, work on yourself, be kind and loving with yourself and everyone around you. If you ever encounter any trouble- emotional\/physical, try and talk to people around you. We all need to be a bit more human, aware and empathetic with each other. <\/p>
\"Don't give up now, chances are, your greatest day, your hardest laugh and your best kiss are yet to come.\"- this a quote by Atticus Poetry which I love and read often on days when life doesn't seem all bright and shiny.<\/p>
She purposely chose a happy picture of herself to be put up to let people know that this was taken during a time when she was struggling to smile and hold on, to let us all know that people can be smiling right through the lens while they just go back home and attempt to end their lives. Fortunately, she now smiles brighter than this picture and her smile is a bit more honest. Jeevana had her bestfriends Anwesh and Karthik helping her stay alive for over a span of 5 years. She confesses that she can never thank them enough for sticking by her side through every hurdle. (The names of her bestfriends are real.)<\/p>
She's also shared a picture of her semi-colon tattoo with us! As long as we're alive, there's always hope. <\/p>
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A book is not just a part of our life but it has the power to change someone's life. A book never had any thing in it.It always remains blank until or unless we pour our thoughts in it. A book not always resembles a professional education other than that many books are filled with values, knowledge which are not there in educational books. How many of you agree that A book is our reflection? Yes its true but we don't believe it, let's try it.if someone has a great bonding and affection with book it always turns you as it. A book is a best friend who is always there when no one hears to you, and it always there with you when no one supports you and provides a full of new world with that blank papers which only you can turn it into beautiful world with full of creativity, and even filled with values, and that can only happens with you. when you write it, you feel it.when you feel it, you like it . when you like it ,you start loving it. And that love never makes you to stop writing. \"That person is my best friend who gives me a book which I have not read \" by Abraham Lincoln. Books always makes you to imagine , reading and writing books, is not just a hobby but it always helps to find your self. The memories which are stored in phone are always temporary but for a change let's write that memories in your book, After somedays when you read it , that not only reminds you of that memories but it again makes you to feel that moment. The people who read books are more knowledgable than the people who write books but the one who wrote books can become a inspiration for many thousands of people who want to become a writer and your writing can change anyone's life if you write it with love. There are many leaders who are inspired by many books and inspired many others by writing books. Like mahatma gandi and Dr. Abdul kalam. Dr. Kalam who wrote \"wings of fire \" Is one of the greatest milestones of India. It's not always true that only a brilliant student and rankholders love books but even who are failures in education can become a great writers if they are talented. So, many says present youngstars are future of a country ,but the present writers are future generation makers. <\/p>","type":"txt","id":1568112996388}]
The true ability to understand a person completely is beyond another's perception. People think that they understand someone, but how do they know someone else's struggle. A lot of people may know me but they don't know me well. They just see this face smiling at them but how do they know the pain behind it?. They see this person walking around, looking alive, but how do they know that he's dead inside. They just see this mass of muscle and bones, but how do they know he's hollow inside. They see this person acting all strong outside, but how do they know that he's as sensitive as a child. People often make the mistake of judging people in the first sight, but they only see one side of the coin. Someone you think is strong maybe the weakest. Someone you think is happy maybe the most depressed. It's high time we start treating psychological problems as real diseases. When people confess they are in depression stop giving them wrong advice and take them to a doctor. Let us take this oath today that out of the hundreds of people we know we can atleast help a single person. Sit down with them , talk to them, open up. If you are suffering, then hey it's okay! We got it covered. A hug, a smile, a kiss gives people hope. This suicide prevention day we take this oath that we'll atleast change a few lives and live happily together. Thank you!<\/p>","type":"txt","id":1568114205293}]
Team Abhiyaan is a competition team of IIT Madras under the Centre For Innovation ( CFI ). We are a group of enthusiastic students who wanted to use and build an autonomous, intelligent, robust, precise and safe ground navigation systems to negate human risk. <\/p>
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\nWe take part in a competition named IGVC (Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition), held every year in Michigan, USA. The Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition (IGVC) <\/b>is an annual international robotics competition for teams of undergraduate and graduate students. Teams design and build an autonomous ground vehicle capable of completing several difficult challenges. \n\n <\/p>"},{"type":"img","id":"img-uid-1568111858760","data":"5d778274705d3"},{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1568111858757","data":"
Our beloved team was conceptualized by the IITM alumni in 2014 and we started to participate in the competition since 2016. It was indeed a rough start for us. We had our own ups and downs but we didn\u2019t let it consume us. We like to face various challenges and we believe that in the process we reach higher peaks. \n\n<\/p>"},{"type":"img","id":"img-uid-1568111858762","data":"5d7782ebdd0d6"},{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1568111858756","data":"
In 2017, we were placed 13th overall out of many teams across the globe in IGVC. 2018 saw us being placed, as 10th overall in the competition. This year we are proud to announce that we were placed as the 1st runner up out of the many teams. <\/p>
\nHaving achieved a good position this year, Team Abhiyaan looks forward to climb higher by participating in the self-drive challenge of IGVC 2020 as against the auto navigation competition. The self drive challenge requires the use of an actual electric vehicle, thus many more challenges for us. Also, the team looks forward to engaging in designing and building autonomous vehicles for the Defence and other applications this year. <\/p>
The team is enthusiastic to solve many real life problems using the weapon of autonomy to reduce the role of humans and sometimes the risks involved in the process. We have many ideas to bring in autonomous systems in our lives such as autonomous delivery robots, wheel chair, to name a few. <\/p>
\n We are \u201cFUELED BY AUTONOMY\u201d as the journey starts in reaching our next goal. \n <\/p>"},{"type":"img","id":"img-uid-1568111858763","data":"5d7782f96d5cb"}]
Dowry disputes,love affairs, examination results, economy drop or illness. Out of all these reasons of Suicide, they overshadow the biggest root problem \"threat\". Threat is like a beginning to a story, it possesses any human to categorise his or her thoughts to a level where nothing but death would be an option. Threat is like slow poison starts with bullying and ends up killing. The fact that should be known is bullying is a the sole reason for suicidal tendencies. \n<\/p>","type":"txt","id":1568109999479},{"data":"
Growing up, I always had my own insecurities of being a fat kid.\" A fifteen year old with insecurities is like a knife in a child's hand. \" People either categorise you or bully you. Initially it never bothered me untill, high school began. Kids in my grade started bullying me. They never knew I was more than just a fat kid. The professional dance performances and the debates , the good grades everything just disappeared in a blink . I was no more interested into anything. This took a toll on my studies and on my co- curricular activities. \n<\/p>","type":"txt","id":1568110158951},{"data":"
A typical highschool drama flashes in the story. I tried considering the school councillors help which sorted a few kids to stop. Only to know this time these kids were getting inside my head. I went into depression and in no time lost all my self confidence. Mental stress is another kind of threat that is hazardous , this was my situation after a round to councillor room.. Abandoned by my friends and a loop of bad grades just took a toll on my on going situation.\nI knew I had to sort this out the right and needed all the mental torture to stop. There was no way I could tell anyone about the situation since the last time I tried it wasn't so well.I knew the only people I could talk to were my parents. They knew something was wrong and one day I had to confront them. The stress and the torture I was putting myself through just burst out and I opened up . <\/p>","type":"txt","id":1568110188076},{"data":"
The next day I went to school with a whole new level of confidence. My parents adviced me to face the situation boldly and stand up to those bullies. That I had a voice for myself and if anything goes wrong they always had my back. I faced these kids and this time I knew I was so much above them. This confidence was enough to stand up to them. I learnt self love and self treatment is the only way you can get out of this depression.\n<\/p>","type":"txt","id":1568110230898},{"id":1568110388083,"type":"img","data":"5d777734e6be6"},{"data":"
It is difficult to confront about being bullied and being depressed, but even a minor thought of self harm is wrong. One should always know no matter what happens help will always be there . All it takes is to verbalize our real feelings. \" Suicide is Never A choice or an option.\"\n<\/p>","type":"txt","id":1568110251458}]
Life is a first gift we get from the God. I believe that Life should be similar to heart pulse, it should raise and fall. If it's constant, there is no life, similarly if life is constant, we fell that life is boring. Life should be interesting, not boring. I fell that life should have some set backs to know the value of life. Life will knock you down once and pump you up once. You need to maintain the life stable and learn it as an experience. Don't waste your gift of life from God and value it. <\/p>
We may get many number of setbacks and failures, but remember even Bill Gates was a drop out, Mark Zuckerberg was a drop out, and many more. Jack Ma, founder of Alibaba, was rejected for job in McDonald's. They failed but they were successful because they never gave up. They never gave up their fighting spirit in them. They never gave up their future dreams for their present circumstances. They never gave up their consistency of trying and working hard for their goals and ambitions. They never gave up their journey to reach triumph in their life. <\/p>
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Why will we enjoy much watching India vs Australia match rather than watching India vs Ireland match? The race will be interesting and watch worth if we see opponents with equal abilities. Similarly, life will make us experience the success and failure in equal quantities. But, the toss would be for failure so we will experience the failure first and then the taste of success. The happiness in achieving success would wipe off the bitterness in receiving a failure. So, be confident and strong that all these failures would definitely help you out in your future. Many successful people have went through this process of tasting ups and downs.Be courageous to accept a failure and learn from it. Without failures and setbacks, there is no Apple, no Google, no Microsoft. Learn from those iconic organisation how to convert the failure into success. Be optimistic. Be practical. Be courageous. Be honest. Be confident. <\/p>
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Success is the summary of many lessons from setbacks<\/b>.<\/p>"}]
Give me some sunshine... Give me some rain... Give me another chance... I wanna grow up once again!!<\/b> These lines might remind you of the suicide of Joy - \"suicide note - I Quit\" scene in 3 idiots movies. <\/p>
Once imagine if the lines would be like... Will definitely get another chance... and Will never give up... Then, the next scene would be totally different and great... Right!!! But the foolishness of giving up... turned the whole thing to a disaster.<\/p>
Life!!! Such a precious gift given by god!<\/p>
If you wanted to know it's true value... Ask a cancer patient who unwillingly has a little span of months to live! <\/p>"},{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1567955465982","data":"
The greatest reason for the rise of suicides is the cowardness to face life.<\/p>
But in general... we never ought to be that timid! We are never and ever!!! Then what is the case? The thing is we are unable to win over the inner devil. Yes! The one who always reside in us and create all negative thoughts. Learn to defeat the inner devil.<\/p>"},{"type":"img","id":"img-uid-1567955465983","data":"5d773444e5fc9"},{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1567955465984","data":"
Difficult situations and the whole stress of life, hectic depression, the crap of fear to face... all psychiatric disorders rise the thought of giving up and wishing for peace! <\/p>
I agree with this for sure... There was a time in my life... just at the end of my intermediate where everything was not going all the way along my expectations and I couldn't handle that stress of the ranks and counsellings... those discouragements from my relatives... and all those unworthy shits that my parents were facing from them. I was like totally hopeless and for a moment was like giving up all of them. Later... I rescued peace in the holy books! They were like strength to me. That time I understood the value of the holy books in our lives! Everything those exist has its own role and value. <\/p>
I think many of you remember the poem - \"Footprints on sand\". The poetess feels alone in difficult times. She sees that there were 2 sets of footprints, one set belongs to her and other sets belong to her lord. But during harsh times there was only one set of footprint. Then lord says, \" You were not alone my child, I was the one holding you up and supporting you to overcome the barries... and those footprints belong to me!\"<\/p>
So... it's proven that we are not alone at any point in time! This is the one I learned and this power always drives me to face the world.<\/p>"},{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1567955465985","data":"
At last in my opinion... the lines that I came across... which build hope:<\/p>
Scared of failures in life? Feeling hurt and hopeless?<\/p>
It's a lie to think \"you deserve to die\" Because there is still hope... the greatest hope... <\/p>
Life itself is a mixture of happy and difficult times. Mending ourselves to face any situation without giving up is the solution!!!<\/p>
Never take a wrong step! because...<\/p>"},{"type":"img","id":"img-uid-1567955465986","data":"5d775ce9e18dc"},{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1567955465987","data":"
Be brave :) <\/p>"}]
In my travel i met a kid ,he seems to be very introvert.In my 3hours of journey he just remained silent for almost 1hour and i started talking to him and he said me that i'm not this once upon a time.He said me i'm a very hyperactive kid who used to tease my friends ,miss my homework ,receive punishments from teachers and get scoldings from parents.I used to always enjoy my life but then i understood all people around leaving me.<\/p>","type":"txt","id":1568049374628},{"data":"
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When no one is around me i just understood how people abondon me by my nature and that brought me an introvert phase. I didn't understood that when i'm myself all used to be hard on me but when i lost myself everyone came to me.I just didn't understood the choice of people.<\/p>","type":"txt","id":1568050037530},{"data":"
These words of the kid Just provoked me and left me a question\ud83e\udd14.<\/p>","type":"txt","id":1568050189347}]
Growing up, thousands of young graduates dream of achieving what they really want to! Then reality sets in! <\/p>
\n A young graduate had presented his electric bike during a project expo held in Hyderabad. Electric bikes are pretty common in this digital world! What if I told you - he had come to the event on the same bike and it's been his companion to college everyday. An electric bike at the age of 21! Isn't that an achievement? There were many innovative prototypes, but this - was a legit working model! \n<\/p>"},{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1568051542342","data":"
He was full of life and keen on working on his brain child. With many other breathtaking ideas, all of us were sure that this young startup enthusiast has a long way to go! Being an innate curious learner he never hesitated to accept the facts unknown to him. <\/p>
Six months down the lane, I get a message saying, this guy committed suicide because of depression and stress. It was a nightmare! Little did we all know that there was so much pain wrapped under his contagious smile!\n <\/p>
He wanted to live a life of fulfillment, influence many and create wonders! But - That day never came.<\/p>"},{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1568051542343","data":"
It's heartbreaking to see people break. We May Never Know When Someone Is Suffering. <\/p>
There are many around us who might be suffering. The list does not even account for the number of people we see daily, in our lives, who may be suffering from a form of depression. \nIt\u2019s incredible to think that one word, gesture or action can affect someone when it comes to such thoughts. Or the possibility that a smile, hug, or a kind word or two could be that one major push a person may need to overcome their inner obstacles.\n <\/p>
Its a two way process! People fighting with their inner obstacles should know that they're not alone. They're not worthless. And there are people who love them deeply . We should collectively evolve in moulding an optimistic environment! With a mindset that everyone is learning and doing their best will spread positivity. Failures and difficulties should be best viewed as opportunities for growth. \n<\/p>"}]
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