What is Bulimia?
What is Bulimia? Bulimia is a life-threatening eating disorder. It is when a person does uncontrollable binge eating and then take harmful s…
What is Meningitis?
What is Meningitis? Meningitis is inflammation of the brain and spinal cord membranes, caused by an infection. It is life-threatening blood …
Challenges Faced by people with ALS
What are all the challenges faced by people with ALS? When most of their voluntary muscles stop working. ALS is also known as Amyotrophic la…
What is Lupus and how does it affect your immune system?
What if you can not distinguish between your family members and strangers? It’ll be awful, right? Well, something like this happens to…
What are the challenges faced by people with ADHD
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is a chronic brain disorder in which a person is unable to control their behaviour. ADHD is …
Diagnosis and Treatment of The Ovarian Cancer
In the earlier article on ovarian cancer, we discussed any kind of healthy ovary’s cell, due to the false mechanism, can transform int…
What is Ovarian Cancer?
As described in an earlier article, cancer is a disease of abnormal cell growth with the potential to invade or spread to another body parts…
What is Psychosis?
What is Psychosis? Psychosis is a severe mental disorder in which a person perceives their surroundings differently. People experiencing psy…
What is Bipolar Disorder
What is Bipolar Disorder? Bipolar disorder is a mental illness marked by extreme shifts in mood ranging from mania (high) to depression (low…
What is Parkinson’s Disease?
What is Parkinson’s Disease? Parkinson’s disease is a progressive movement disorder which is chronic in nature. It is a nervous …
What is Dementia?
What is Dementia? Dementia is a general term for loss of memory and other mental abilities severe enough to interfere your daily life. It is…
Mental health of people suffering from physical disability
What is a Physical Disability? Physical disability. What comes to your mind when you hear this word? What is the first thing you think about…
What is Progeria?
Ageing is a pretty controlled process but in the case of progeria, it is neither controlled nor well-executed. Although it is a very rare ty…
One of the most common intestinal problems – Irritable Bowel Syndrome
What is Irritable Bowel Syndrome? Irritable Bowel Syndrome or IBS is an intestinal disorder which affects your large intestine. It is a mix …
What are Learning Disabilities?
What is learning disability? Well, let me start it with a short story. Once, there was a boy who used to get punishments quite often by his …
What is Apraxia?
Our brain is a very complex organ which has so many parts and portions, all having vital roles. One such portion is Posterior Parietal Corte…
Cost of Alzheimer’s Disease – $100 billion/year
Alzheimer’s disease is a chronic neurodegenerative disease which usually impacts mental and behavioural condition. Degeneration of neu…
What you should know about Zika Virus
What is Zika virus? Zika virus is a mosquito-borne infection. It is mostly spread by daytime active Aedes species mosquito, the same kind of…
The story of Madras Dyslexia Association
What is Madras Dyslexia Association? Madras Dyslexia Association (MDA) is a non-profit, non-governmental organisation based in Chennai. It h…
What is Anxiety Disorder?
You mistakenly kept your hand over a burning stove, in no time, your brain sent a signal to pull back your hand. Another case, you sense anx…
When you’re making fun of something, you’re including it in your group – Abish Mathew
We all have, at some point in time, laughed at jokes because we found them funny but were a little offensive to other people. So many new co…
What is Personality Disorder?
What is Personality Disorder? Personality Disorder is a mental disorder. It causes a rigid and unhealthy pattern of thinking. In many cases,…
What is Schizophrenia?
Schizophrenia is a chronic mental disorder that affects how a person thinks, feels, or behaves. When it is active it causes hallucinations, …
Anorexia – An eating disorder
What is Anorexia? Anorexia is an eating disorder that is characterized by low weight. An anorexic person consumes only limited quantity of f…
India’s 73 Medals in The Special Olympics – World Winter Games 2017
During 18-25 March 2017, while we were busy with our daily life, 89 athletes of India were trying hard to put India’s legacy on the gl…
Depression, Let’s Talk.
Hey Depression, come let’s talk. Let’s talk face to face, you and I. Oh I’m sorry, I forgot. You don’t actually have…
First Person to Travel Outer Space with ALS – Stephen Hawking
World’s most celebrated living scientist Stephen Hawking has ALS. It’s quite possible that he’ll be the first person to tr…
What is Obsessive Compulsive disorder (OCD)?
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder is a mental disorder which affects adults, teenagers, and children all over the word. It causes a pattern of u…
What is Bone Cancer?
Biology says every living organism is a form of well designed and structured cells. In the context of a human body, every part that healthil…
What is Post-traumatic Stress disorder (PTSD)?
What is PTSD? Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) usually occurs after witnessing or experiencing a terrifying event. It may last for mont…
Special Olympics – An Olympic of Intellectually Disabled
“Let me win, but if i can not win, let me brave in the attempt.” T-r-y-i-n-g is a simple 5 letter word but if you practice it wi…
World Downs Syndrome Day
Internationally, 21st March is recognised as the world downs syndrome day and 2017 marks it’s 12th anniversary. It was recognized by m…
Facts to know about Depression
Depression is the most talked-about disorder. But is also the most misunderstood and misjudged disorder. Here we bring you four of many fact…
A Cancer of Blood-Forming Tissues – Leukemia
Earlier, in the series of types of cancer, we wrote about breast cancer. Now, it’s time to update our knowledge by an another type of …
Don’t let depression win the battle of your life
I know. You are going to think that it’s not easy and that you didn’t choose this for yourself. You can’t even put your fi…
What does the symbol of access mean? And why are we confused about it?
Symbols play a significant role in our life. Some of the world’s most recognizable symbols exist to sell products; others try to help …
What is Stuttering?
“Everything seems normal till you start talking. The minute you start talking, you get stuck and you don’t know why. Right from …
Why you should consider being a blood donor
Despite being a country with a population of 1.2 billion, India faces a blood shortage of 3 million units every year…
Four Main Types of Leukemia
There is a wide range of types of leukemia. However, the major division is between its acute and chronic forms. Both acute and chronic leuke…
5 most common cancer types
Cancer Types Cancer is a name given to a wide group of diseases. Mostly, the name of cancer type is related to the area it has developed in.…
Story of Maddie – A passionate musician
Did you know that there are 1 billion people in the world that have some or the other kind of disability? Maddie Maddie, a 17-year-old from …
What is Depression ?
What is depression? Depression is one of the leading disorders today. It is a common but serious mood disorder. A person feels sad along wit…
What is ALS – Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis?
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis is a name given to a group of neurological diseases. It is also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease and motor…
Challenges faced by people with Asperger’s Syndrome.
Individuals who have Asperger’s looks like everyone else, but no they are not like everyone else. People with autism face many issues …
Asperger’s Syndrome
source: Childrens.com What is Asperger’s Syndrome? Asperger’s syndrome is a developmental disorder. It is a mild form of autism.…
What is Breast Cancer?
Before moving to breast cancer, let us first get a brief description of cancer. Normal cells in the body follow a properly designed path of …
What is Cancer?
What cancer is not Most people think every tumor is a kind of cancer because most cancers form a lump called tumor. But it is important to u…
It’s a ‘Special’ Valentine’s!
It’s Valentine’s Day today and what better occasion to tell the world about the love stories of specially abled people? When we …
What is Aphasia?
Everyone is aware of the fact that we belong to a very social race. Even the most anti-social individual will have to communicate socially …
Academically helping children with dyspraxia
Children with Dyspraxia Most people who are diagnosed with dyspraxia are at a very young age. In fact, it is children with dyspraxia that fa…
What is Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)?
So ADHD is a medical condition which first appears in childhood and then I really like eating ice-cream after But some trees are not green …
What is Dyspraxia?
So far we’ve looked at common disorders which are fairly popular. So let’s look at one which is not so popularly known as the ot…
Making of Shakthi V. – A Social Media Influencer
“I was born in 1972, apparently not a good phase for medical services in India. When I was of 3 and a half months, I got a normal fever. Eve…
Challenges and struggles of having a disability
It is deeply important to be aware but at the same time, it becomes our duty to not only spread the awareness but try and contribute towards…
Difference between a Disorder & a Disability
Do you know what the difference is between a disorder and a disability? For those of you who don’t, let us make it easier for you to u…
How we can help people having epileptic seizure
Each and every disorder has their own unique way of manifesting themselves. Well, Epilepsy is as unique as it gets. This is not a disorder t…
What are the issues epileptic people face
Knowing Epilepsy Epilepsy, also known as seizure disorder, is a very commonly known disorder. The individuals diagnosed with this disorder n…
What is Epilepsy?
Understanding Epilepsy In a sea of common disorder and disabilities, another popularly known disorder is Epilepsy. Individuals diagnosed wit…
How to help Autistic people
Playing our part We’ve all heard the saying ‘A little help goes a long way’. So why don’t we try doing our part in w…
What are the family struggles of Autistic people
Family Comes First It is always said that family comes first. Hence in the case of diagnosis, they are the first and the closest ones to be …
What is Autism?
We all strive to establish our uniqueness. We always try to stand out from the crowd but isolate people who are naturally different. For exa…
Being Different is not a Curse
“It is a waste of time to be angry about my disability. One has to get on with life and I haven’t done badly. People won’t…
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