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Daily Archives: September 20, 2017

Mental Health and Honesty – Sanchana Krishnan

Creator of Living Stories Sanchana Krishnan writes about her journey to honesty about mental health. *     *    * The Tamil word for ‘dawn’ (“vidii”, with an emphasis on the ‘d’)  is suspiciously similar to the Tamil word for ‘explode’ (“vedii”). Between the ages of two and four, I spent the better part of too many nights waiting restlessly for the explosion of dawn to bring the world back to me. Hours were spent jamming my curly head annoyingly close to my parents’ sleeping bodies, checking for breath. For some inexplicable reason, I was absolutely terrified that my parents would just stop breathing if…