CHEMICAL KHICHADI: How I Hacked My Mental Health
Aparna Piranal Raje
CHEMICAL KHICHADI: How I Hacked My Mental Health - 1 - Haryana Penguin Random House 2022 - 274
Aparna Piramal Raje's life looks successful. Hailing from a well-known business family, she is married, has two children, is a published author, a popular columnist with a leading daily and was the CEO of a leading furniture company. However, only a few close friends and family members were aware that she struggled with a serious mental illness--bipolar disorder--for two decades. Also known as manic depression, bipolar disorder is characterized by extreme shifts in moods and energy levels, leading to euphoric highs and damaging lows.
Now, Aparna wants to tell the story of how she learnt to come to terms with her condition. Part memoir, part reportage and part self-help guide,Chemical Khichdiseeks to remove some of the stigma associated with a serious mental illness in an empathetic, accessible and candid way. Its 'seven therapies' present a hopeful and helpful pathway for all those with a mental health condition, their loved ones and their mental health practitioners, with the message that they can live with a vulnerability and thrive.
9780143454359
Purchased Prism Books, Kadavanthra, Kochi
Aparna Piramal Raje-Memoir
(Writer, motivational speaker, design thinker and mental health advocate)
Biography- Mental illness
mental health- Memoir
616.89092 / APA/CH
CHEMICAL KHICHADI: How I Hacked My Mental Health - 1 - Haryana Penguin Random House 2022 - 274
Aparna Piramal Raje's life looks successful. Hailing from a well-known business family, she is married, has two children, is a published author, a popular columnist with a leading daily and was the CEO of a leading furniture company. However, only a few close friends and family members were aware that she struggled with a serious mental illness--bipolar disorder--for two decades. Also known as manic depression, bipolar disorder is characterized by extreme shifts in moods and energy levels, leading to euphoric highs and damaging lows.
Now, Aparna wants to tell the story of how she learnt to come to terms with her condition. Part memoir, part reportage and part self-help guide,Chemical Khichdiseeks to remove some of the stigma associated with a serious mental illness in an empathetic, accessible and candid way. Its 'seven therapies' present a hopeful and helpful pathway for all those with a mental health condition, their loved ones and their mental health practitioners, with the message that they can live with a vulnerability and thrive.
9780143454359
Purchased Prism Books, Kadavanthra, Kochi
Aparna Piramal Raje-Memoir
(Writer, motivational speaker, design thinker and mental health advocate)
Biography- Mental illness
mental health- Memoir
616.89092 / APA/CH