{"id":54,"date":"2019-02-20T07:20:40","date_gmt":"2019-02-20T07:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huggingclubofindia.org\/?p=54"},"modified":"2019-02-25T08:40:09","modified_gmt":"2019-02-25T08:40:09","slug":"experiencing-the-first-meeting-of-the-hugging-club-of-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huggingclubofindia.org\/?p=54","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;I am diagnosed as having bi-polar depression or manic depressive&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"http:\/\/huggingclubofindia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/10th-dec-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-57\" srcset=\"https:\/\/huggingclubofindia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/10th-dec-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/huggingclubofindia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/10th-dec-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/huggingclubofindia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/10th-dec-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/huggingclubofindia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/10th-dec.jpg 1040w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption><strong>The lively, interactive group at the first ever meet of the Hugging Club of India<br><\/strong><br><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n<p>I am diagnosed as having bi-polar depression or manic depressive.<\/p>\n<p>When I heard about the formation of a Hugging Club to help people like me, I was extremely happy. Especially because it was an initiative by a friend who I knew was warm, caring and helpful. I came to the first meet of the Hugging Club as I was curious about knowing how and what would happen in such a meet. We met at a cafe and I found everyone opening up easily. Since the atmosphere was very casual and relaxed, I too began voicing my journey, the impression I had of my mental illness, my successful work life and how the combination of stress and loneliness brought it back after a long gap. At the meet, I was very impressed by Yogesh who had risen above his suicidal tendency and sounded extremely confident and helpful.<\/p>\n<p>I returned home, much lightened as it was for the first time ever that I had spoken about my illness in front of a group of strangers. As I often feel I will be misunderstood or wrongly judged, it was one of the toughest thing for me to do ever .<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am diagnosed as having bi-polar depression or manic depressive. When I heard about the formation of a Hugging Club to help people like me, I was extremely happy. Especially because it was an initiative by a friend who I knew was warm, caring and helpful. I came to the first meet of the Hugging [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huggingclubofindia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huggingclubofindia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huggingclubofindia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huggingclubofindia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huggingclubofindia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/huggingclubofindia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79,"href":"https:\/\/huggingclubofindia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions\/79"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huggingclubofindia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huggingclubofindia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huggingclubofindia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}