Healing is not linear. It doesn’t represent a straight line in a graph.
But it does look like ups and downs.
When I was admitted to NIMHANS in 2025, I experienced this.
Every few weeks I met new people and I had to go through different sets of ups and downs.
I met people who are hyper-active and also people who were depressed.
I met people who were delusional and people who had OCD, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, and all sorts of other mental health disorders.
Of course they weren’t to be blamed for these, it’s their psychiatric disorders that require healing.
I went to yoga classes in NIMHANS and I learnt yoga and it had an important role in my healing.
It gave me a structure to my days and I enjoyed it as well.
But even with yoga, I sometimes stopped going and sometimes I prioritized it.
It had its set of ups and downs.
Mostly when we think that when we are in the down phase of healing, we are moving backwards in our journey of healing. But that’s not true.
Even when we’re feeling down, it’s a part of the growth process and the journey of healing.
So yeah the journey of healing has lots of ups and downs and my stay at NIMHANS last year accelerated it.
And when we look back after many months and years we see that we have grown so much.
Thanks for reading this line! It means a lot.
