The PsyCreative Column

Aarya Patil MSc. FY Applied Psychology  “Help! Help! It was someone screaming, I looked behind and saw no one was there. I heard the same scream again but this time I did not look back, because I knew, I was familiar with this voice, it was the voice within me, suffocating but it wanted to speak.” Let’s understand the myths about suicide and debunk them instead of feeling suffocated. 1) “ Individuals who have a mental health condition are the only ones affected by suicidal ideations and attempts ”, that’s not true - anyone out there without a mental health condition can be affected by suicidal thoughts - so keep checking in on your loved one’s or anyone you know of displaying signs.   2) “ People who talk about suicide are attention seekers” , When we are physically hurt, like if we have scrapped our knee or bleeding through our lips, don’t we ask for help readily? Just because suicidal thoughts are not physically present, people often assume it’s just for attention seeking, ...

- Joshita Gupta, MSc. FY Applied Psychology I’ve learned to read the silence. Not the comfortable quiet of a shared room, but the kind that feels heavy, like a dense fog. It’s in the way you look at a window, feeling like you're seeing a world that isn't yours anymore. It's in the way your laugh, once a full and vibrant sound, has become a fragile echo that seems to break as soon as it's born. I see you retreating, pulling the blinds on a soul that used to radiate warmth. Every small retreat is a quiet earthquake, and I feel the ground beneath me tremble. I see the war you're fighting, though it rages in silence. I see the invisible weight that sags your shoulders and the exhaustion that lives in your eyes. I want you to know that the empathy I feel for your pain is not a burden; it's a deep, profound reverence for what you are enduring. I am a mountain in your storm. I do not need to fight the wind for you; I only need to be here, an unshakable and quiet presen...