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17/02/2026

If data looks like patterns to interpret, trends to validate, and insights to strengthen programmes, this role may be for you. 📊 We’re Hiring: Data Officer
📍 METROPOLIS | New Delhi
🏢 Sangath

Seeking a quantitative professional with 1+ year of experience, strong MS Excel skills, and working knowledge of STATA/SPSS/R (or similar tools). 🗓 Apply by: 22 February 2026, 5 PM
📩 alka.singh@sangath.in

16/01/2026

The METROPOLIS Project at Sangath is looking for a Research Coordinator (Recruitment & Outreach) to join the team and support field-based research with young people. 🌍✨

In this role, you’ll contribute to recruitment, college and youth engagement, outreach coordination, and the ethical implementation of mental health research on the ground.

📍 Location: New Delhi
📅 Application Deadline: 29th January 2026 (5 PM)
📩 Apply by: Sending your relevant documents to alka.singh@sangath.in

📝 Subject Line: Application for METROPOLIS Research Coordinator

Be part of research that centres youth voices and strengthens inclusive mental health responses. 💬💛

15/01/2026

The METROPOLIS Project at Sangath is looking for an Individual Contractor / Company for Graphic Design to collaborate with our team and support creative communication for a student focused peer support programme . 🌍📊

In this role, you’ll contribute by designing engaging visuals for youth engagement, social media, and outreach materials, while aligning with Sangath’s branding and communication goals.

📅 Application Deadline: 20th January 2026 (5 PM)
📩 Apply by: Sending your relevant documents to alka.singh@sangath.in

📝 Subject Line: Application for METROPOLIS Graphic Designer

Create visuals that matter and support youth-centric mental health research through thoughtful design. 💬💛

05/01/2026

✨ Holding Onto the Pieces ✨

This poem explores the quiet, lingering moments after a painful experience — the memories that resurface, the fragments of emotions that refuse to fully settle, and the struggle to put them into words. It’s a reflection on grief, vulnerability, and the complexity of processing what the heart carries.

Even in the fragments, there’s a space for understanding, for witnessing oneself, and for slowly moving forward. Sometimes, simply acknowledging the pieces is a step toward healing.

Full poem in bio.

04/01/2026

✨ Learning to Trust Your Own Voice ✨

Some experiences don’t announce themselves as life-altering — they settle quietly, changing how you move, who you trust, and what safety feels like. This story reflects on that slow reckoning: learning to listen to discomfort, unlearning self-blame, and finding language for feelings that once felt impossible to name.

It speaks to the power of being believed, the steadiness of friendships that hold you up when you cannot stand on your own, and the courage it takes to speak — not for closure, but for care. At its heart, this is a story about choosing honesty, allowing time to do its work, and trusting yourself again, gently and at your own pace.

Full story in bio.

03/01/2026

✨ Learning, Adjusting, Thriving ✨. This story holds the weight of years that were never meant to be carried so young — moments of silence, of becoming familiar with endings before beginnings had a chance. It moves through fear, distance, and the slow understanding that survival shapes a person in ways words often fail to capture.

There are no clean lines here, only pauses, returns, and the quiet decision to keep going — not because it is easy, but because something within refuses to disappear.

It is a reflection on living past what once felt final, and learning — gently, imperfectly — how to stay.

Full story in bio.

24/12/2025

Are you passionate about mental health research, youth engagement, and community outreach? 🌱🧠

The METROPOLIS Project at Sangath is looking for a Research Officer (Recruitment & Outreach) to join our team in New Delhi. 🌍✨

In this role, you’ll support research initiatives by engaging with colleges and young people, strengthening outreach efforts, and contributing to meaningful mental health research on the ground.

📍 Location: New Delhi
📅 Application Deadline: 11th January 2026 (5 PM)
📩 Apply by: Sending your CV and cover letter (details in poster / link in bio)

Join us in building evidence, amplifying youth participation, and shaping inclusive mental health responses. 💬💛

19/12/2025

Growing up, I struggled with the stressors imposed both by my caste location and q***rness. I felt at odds with both my body and q***rness, writes Aadhi () in this personal essay.

These feelings were compounded by my traumatic childhood experience of surviving sexual abuse. I needed help. But when I went to a therapist for the first time, it left me shaken. Instead of feeling safe and heard, I felt scrutinised, like I was an inanimate object being examined.

Another therapist, a q***r affirmative one, helped me understand my anxiety and depression. With therapy and medication—that I could access with the financial support of a q***r friend—things slowly began to feel lighter. But that support couldn’t last.

Mental health care is a luxury for those of us who come from caste and class marginalisations and do not have the financial or social resources to access these services.

Being q***r in a casteist society wasn’t easy. Though finding the q***r vocabulary helped me understand some parts of myself, I also came to realise that these labels might not characterise bodies like mine—marked by my caste and the colour of my skin. Q***r dating added to the pain and intensified my sense of shame with my body. I found people who called my skin colour and caste ‘dirty’.

What sustained me was the community and people who had faced similar experiences—those who understood what it was like to be on the margins of society.

Through and in these pockets of refuge in an otherwise oppressive world, I am finding the strength to live. I am building my hope and resilience, writes Aadhi.

Read their complete essay on our website. Link in bio.

This essay is part of Stories Within, a campaign* by It’s Ok To Talk and q***rbeat, featuring personal essays from young people about their experiences with q***rness and mental health.

Art by Amaaya []

Edits by Anmol [.ha]

05/12/2025

✨ The Shift From Self-Blame to Self-Understanding ✨

This story follows a lifelong experience of living with a mind that wouldn’t slow down — from childhood confusion and struggles with focus and friendships, to academic difficulties and the overwhelming pressure of not being able to “just start” a task. It traces the moment of discovering ADHD, opening up to a psychologist, getting diagnosed with ADHD with comorbid anxiety, and finally gaining tools — like planning methods, to-do lists, movement breaks, and strategies to manage time blindness and executive dysfunction.

It then reflects on how these supports led to thriving in 11th and 12th grade, becoming Head of School Council, spreading awareness about ADHD, pursuing Applied Psychology, and learning to manage the same challenges that once felt impossible. Ultimately, it looks back with compassion for the younger self who didn’t know better — and acknowledges ADHD not as a flaw, but as a path that shaped a meaningful and self-aware journey.
Published as part of the Zubaan-e-Dil campaign with
If you’d like to share your own mental health journey, write to us at stories@itsoktotalk.in
Story Illustration by
Full story in bio.

04/12/2025

✨ The Rewrite Begins in the Quietest Courage ✨
This story is about learning to keep breathing when the panic feels suffocating, about surviving the nights when tears came easier than words, and about carrying a pain that felt invisible to everyone else. It’s about the moments on the bathroom floor when giving up felt like the only relief — and yet, something inside still whispered: stay.

It’s also about resilience that didn’t roar but trembled, shook, gasped — and still persisted. About slowly finding language for the pain, reclaiming the mind from fear, and gently stitching together a self that feels whole again. This narrative isn’t about having already healed — it’s about honouring the bravery it takes to even begin.
Published as part of the Zubaan-e-Dil campaign with
If you’d like to share your own mental health journey, write to us at stories@itsoktotalk.in
Story Illustration by
Full story in bio.

01/12/2025

✨ It’s Okay Not to Have Made it Yet — You’re On Your Way ✨

This story reflects the quiet courage of someone navigating financial guilt, family sacrifice, and the weight of expectations — with honesty and vulnerability. It isn’t a tale of blame or regret, but of learning, acknowledging, and slowly building self-worth beyond numbers, timelines, or immediate achievements.

It’s an intimate journey of understanding her parents’ love, facing her own fears, and choosing growth — one step at a time, in her own way, at her own pace.

Full story in bio.

Published as part of the Zubaan-e-Dil campaign with .

If you’d like to share your own mental health journey, write to us at stories@itsoktotalk.in

Story Illustration by

23/11/2025

✨“Some days broke me. Others rebuilt me. That’s how I found my way back.” ✨

In Worst Kind of Loneliness, a young student shares her journey through shifting friendships, losing her home, moving cities, and carrying heartbreak into a new chapter of life. It’s a story of trying to start over in a place that never truly felt familiar, navigating classrooms that felt crowded yet isolating, and learning to rebuild herself through art, music, and quiet resilience.

Her story is a reminder that healing isn’t instant or linear. That sometimes the bravest thing you can do is keep showing up — even on the days when the silence feels loud. And that dreams remain valid, tender, and worth fighting for, no matter how many people doubt them or disappear along the way.

Read the full story on our website — link in bio.

Published as part of the Zubaan-e-Dil campaign with .

If you’d like to share your own mental health journey, write to us at stories@itsoktotalk.in

Story Illustration by

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