Public Events - Recordings
Living with Schizophrenia - A mother-and-son narrative
Public event of Storytelling by Warriors
It was truly a pleasure for us to hear our members of Warriors Connect, mother-son duo Rejiul & Nandini, as they shared their journey of living with Schizophrenia and overcoming their challenges with a smile.💙💛
Hearing both perspectives of lived experience and caregiving experience was especially useful!
😇This session offers insights and coping mechanisms applicable to various mental health challenges. Although centred on Schizophrenia, the learnings are universal.
⚠️ TRIGGER WARNING: While explicit details have been avoided, personal experiences have been shared openly. Kindly use your discretion🙏🏼.
"Ask me Anything!" - A conversation with Dr Vishal Chhabra
23 November 2023
Warriors Connect hosted the President of the Delhi Psychiatric Association - Dr Vishal Chhabra, a senior psychiatrist having >23 years of experience. We asked him literally anything to do with mental health💙💛
Aside from his well reputed clinical practice in Delhi , Dr. Chhabra has a strong commitment towards mental advocacy! He initiates various offline and online community programs with an aim to educate and inform the public about mental health issues, promote awareness, and reduce the stigma surrounding mental illness. We salute his efforts in providing support to individuals experiencing mental health challenges.
Dr Vishal Chhabra answered our many queries with lucid and simple explanations, avoiding jargon. Most of the questions were answered, so the participants felt satisfied. Dr Chhabra also committed to doing more such sessions.
"Ask me Anything!" - A conversation with Dr Sunil Mittal
World Mental Health Day Celebrations - 10 October 2023
We celebrated World Mental Health Day by asking Dr Mittal, a renowned psychiatrist having ~40 years of experience, literally anything to do with mental health💙💛
Dr. Sunil Mittal has been associated with various prestigious hospitals and clinics. He is the founder of CIMBS - Cosmos Institute of Mental Health & Behavioral Sciences in Delhi and co-founder of the Indian Association of Private Psychiatry. He is also the Vice President and Executive Committee Member of the World Federation for Mental Health (WFMH).
He answered our many queries with utmost care and patience! The participants felt satisfied and empowered and stronly requesting a repeat session :)
Aparna Piramal Raje - Author of bestselling book Chemical Khichdi
- A personal journey of 'thriving' with a chronic mental health condition
- A personal journey of 'thriving' with a chronic mental health condition
Aparna Piramal Raje is a bestselling author, a design thinker, a prominent mental health advocate & motivational speaker who has authored the popular book, Chemical Khichdi: How I hacked my mental health ..
During our conversation with Aparna, she spoke a lot about her personal mental health journey (of living & thriving with Bipolar Disorder). The discussions were relevant for anyone battling mental health issues and also for their caregivers. We delved into the realm of career expectations/changes, relationship with spouse/family, self-discovery and sense of purpose!
It was a very engaging session attended by over 65 audience audience members who asked several pertinent questions.
Manisha Sharma - Counselling Psychologist
- How to approach therapy and make it work for you
- How to approach therapy and make it work for you
Therapy adds a spring to our steps towards recovery :) So let's try to understand it better..Whether you have already benefitted from therapy, or not yet, or never even tried it, this talk is for you!
Manisha Sharma is an experienced counselling psychologist, with a masters in clinical psychology and training in CBT, hypnosis and other modules. She is currently working full-time in a leading organisation, for creating robust wellness models for content moderators. [She has also counselled me :) ]
Manisha is no longer taking clients for her private practice. This makes her ideally suited to share with us, her candid and unbiased perspective of therapy and how it really works!
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A big thank you for making our second guest event successful last night! We had 20+ attendees, some very insightful inputs from our guest, Manisha and very thought provoking questions from the audience! I hope we all learnt how to increase the chances of therapy working out for us..
Akhileshwar Sahay - Mental Health Champion & Thought Leader
- Perspectives on mental health in the workplace & relationships
- Perspectives on mental health in the workplace & relationships
Akhileshwar Sahay (Google him!), is a multi-disciplinary thought leader, who while living with Bipolar Disorder, has tackled the stigma around mental illness head-on, in his personal life, and through his writings (check out his published Op-Ed articles!). He has worked with Govt. of India (Railways, Metro) professionally and also as a member of the Mental Health Policy Group.
Indeed Akhileshwar ji has an impactful personal story and immense knowledge nearly everything to do with mental health.
As those diagnosed with mental health conditions & caregivers, let's talk to him about things that really matter to us in our personal & professional lives.