Muslim with ADHD

What it’s like to be a Muslim with ADHD? Unfortunately, a lot of people do not discuss the repercussions of being a Muslim with ADHD. ADHD is a neurodevelopmental disorder that affects the executive functions of the brain; this includes working memory, attention, organization skills, time management, planning and discipline. In Islam, almost every other…

ADHD – POST-TRAUMATIC

I have attention deficit disorder. It is a neurodevelopmental and neurobiological mental disorder. I had this disorder since childhood and I still have it. You know what I feel like, I have been living with an impaired, dysfunctional brain since birth while everybody around lived with a normal brain. And I did not know this…

Living with Bipolar depression

LIVING WITH BIPOLAR TYPE 2 You push yourself just one more time, you tell yourself there won’t be any pain or any jeopardy after this, you look at yourself in the mirror, you have dark circles etched deep within your skin, your eyes cast a heavy hue and the strained expression coupled with the marks…

Hye! I am fat in a fat-phobic world!

This blog is not written in order to justify or glorify obesity or being overweight. Obesity is a serious epidemic and obese people are more susceptible to serious illnesses like diabetes, hypertension, osteoporosis, various types of cancer, other cardiovascular illnesses, stomach and gastrointestinal illnesses. It can also cause issues of backache, constant pain in legs…

The yellow pill

The yellow pill A short story By Anam Ahmed “They don’t sell it for free here” Aram could not believe his ears, the last ten hours had been hell. He had strolled all the way from the main market to this isolated part of the town in hope of finding the yellow pill. But to…

Are you happy with your career?

They wake up every morning, they brush their teeth, they go to the office and they work incessantly for a long time, they have their lunch and then they work more, they talk  to their colleagues and over the weekend they talk more with their peers and their friends, the pain of existence gnaws at…

That day

That day I could not do much and therefore, I sat by the fire stove and watched the boiling of the water, my body started shaking uncontrollably as I could not fathom why the fire burned so fiercely, flames waned on all sides and i was desperately holding on my sanity, trying so hard not…

A long time ago

A long distorted time ago, My boat lay by the sea, Then a man came by, I did not know I thought he said you are free But I could think no other thought But to feel the darkness within me. I was so lost , he was so free In this oceanic maze of…

Flicker

Staying, where I resign can you guide me to breathe more? I witnessed plagued hours in a nutshell in reality; our hearts melt with the fumes of hell Flicker, plead, ensure who knows when the time will come in a world of billions of half-alive souls? We disappear, reappear who knows if nerves will be…

Fairytale

You break down every day, then get back up with broken bones and a broken heart and broken hope and then take that broken hope in your tiny minuscule bleeding hands and stitch It back together while tears drain down your face and a deep foreboding fear looms in your heart that this ‘hope’ might…