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Tackling Nepal's mental health pandemic
An 18-year-old boy living with relatives in Kathmandu was working to pay his way through college. He lost his job in a restaurant when it closed…
Have suicides increased during Nepal lockdown?
One of the stories that has been making the rounds since the Covid-19 lockdown that began nearly six months ago is that the suicide rate in…
Suicide Watch
Photo: SONIA AWALEMichael Eddleston is a professor of Clinical Toxicology at the University of Edinburgh with over two decades of experience in…
Nepal’s suicide rate vastly underestimated
Photo: MONIKA DEUPALANepal’s public health system has no mechanism for recording suicides, and the only statistics about suicides can be found…
Dead end of the Korean Dream
Bandana Timalsina reaches out to touch her husband‘s face one last time before his cremation at Pashupati in August. Kedar Timalsina hung…
It’s all in the mind
The conflict and earthquake added to Nepal’s hidden epidemic of mental disorderMEMORIES: Nani Maiya Prajapati was serving lunch to her husband,…
Time heals
Pic: Gopen RaiImmediately after the earthquake, there was a sudden surge of patients with mental disorders in Kathmandu’s psychiatric…