Standing apart.

A lot of writers have attempted to write books on mental health and healing. So, what makes Bagrecha's work stand apart from the rest. ...

A lot of writers have attempted to write books on mental health and healing. So, what makes Bagrecha's work stand apart from the rest. Well, the reason isn't that insidious as it sounds. 



To understand it, let's take a moment and look at J.K Rowling's speech addressing everyone very good lives. She speaks about her experience of anxiety and depression having seen the face of the lowest possible level of poverty in the U.K. . She had to shoulder her daughter's responsibility and get herself out of poverty. Divorced after 4-5 years of becoming a mother, her soul was torn apart. The rest is history. She states " clinical depression is not sadness, sadness isn't a bad thing, it's the absence of emotions and feelings and even the absence of hope making you feel that you'll never feel happy again, just like the dementors  ". 

What's interesting here to note is that Rowling isn't addressing any negative thoughts but she encapsulates what it actually feels like when one is in such a state.

 Ashish on the other hand talks about an empty soul. The emptiness in one's soul haunting the individual every moment of their lives making them feel as if they've lost their soul forever and will inevitably never be able to find it again no matter how hard one tries. He asserts the overt symptoms that distinguish a patient suffering from clinical depression. For example when one taps the feet and clenches the hand to express the anguish that resides within. Empathising with the reader he brings attention to the fact that they are not the only ones struggling and he'll always be there for the reader who's just a stranger to him but is as close as a family or even more perhaps in some situations. 

He acknowledges the fact that how bitter the word 'try ' sounds when people start advising you having no idea of the turmoil that haunts one every moment of their day. He understands that the one struggling tries as hard as possible irrespective of how the world might perceive or judge them accordingly. He has addressed letters to the reader asserting that he might not know who's reading them but assures that they will get through it someday. That there is light at the end of the tunnel. The fear of falling apart yet again will always keep haunting but that delusion in one's mind is just a product of anxiety. 

The connections are established exceptionally well considering the patient to be drowning in an ocean, hopeless of reaching the shore. And he insists the reader try to reach the shore even when one doesn't feel like paddling. He'll be waiting with a blanket to provide the warmth and comfort required for the healing process. He doesn't approach anger in a negative aspect, rather asserts that it is a part of the process of healing to let out or vent the venom within and not to criticise oneself for being angry at oneself or frustrated. 

Considering things the way they are is what makes his work stand apart amongst the others writing about mental health only advising and giving tips and tricks to overcome anxiety not addressing the setbacks that one has to face to carry out the processes

That's where the reader gets bonded with Ashish so strongly making him what he is today. 

One becomes strong when one acknowledges one's weaknesses. Only then one establishes a scope for self-improvement. 

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I hope I was able to respond to the curious concern of What makes Bagrecha's 'stranger' popular? Stay tuned for further writings. Wish you all very happy lives.