Small steps out of a low spell
Act first. Motivation comes later.
The Weave Family Library
Understand what you or your family is going through.
Free, plain-language books you can read on a hard day. Find yours by condition, by relationship, or by situation.
In a hurry, or having a hard day?
One page overviews
Read one in about a minute. The full book is one tap away.
When should we ask for help?
You do not need a diagnosis to ask.
When memory starts to change
Write examples, not arguments.
Staying well after a high or a low
Make the plan while things are steady.
Mental-health medicines
What to expect, and what to ask.
For everyone12
Neurodivergence6
Anxiety4
Low mood4
Perinatal5
Sleep3
Substance use3
Trauma3
OCD1
Bipolar5
Unusual experiences2
Memory4
Eating1
For everyone
For everyone
Free to read
Staying connected: how ordinary people help prevent suicide
A warm, plain-language guide for any ordinary person who wants to help prevent suicide: why connection is real protection, how to ask plainly without fear, how to notice the quiet signs, how to reach out and stay, what to do after a hard conversation, and how to look after yourself as the helper. Free and cited, from the Weave Family Library.
For everyone
Free to read
When it feels like too much
Warning signs, what to do right now, and Indian helpline numbers. One page, free, on every book in the shelf.
For everyone
Free to read
If you are not safe right now
If you are not safe right now, you are not alone and help is one call away. This card puts the national helpline first, lists the numbers worth keeping, and walks through the few simple steps that carry a person through the next hours.
For everyone
Free to read
When someone you love may be suicidal
A calm, plain guide for when you are scared a loved one may be suicidal: what to do right now, the warning signs, how to ask plainly, and how to stay. If you need help now, call Tele-MANAS at 14416.
For everyone
Free to read
Facing it together: a relationship and mental health
A warm, plain-language guide for a couple where one or both partners live with a mental-health condition, or where stress is straining the bond: why love alone is not enough, how to talk so you both feel heard, how to share the load without one becoming the nurse, how to keep the couple alive, and how to get help together. Free and cited, from the Weave Family Library.
For everyone
Free to read
Getting through exam stress
A warm, plain-language guide for a student under crushing exam pressure: why the fear is real and normal, when stress tips from helping to hurting, what actually helps you study, how to calm your body before and on the day, why your worth is more than a score, and how to reach out when it gets too heavy. Free and cited, from the Weave Family Library.
For everyone
Free to read
Marriage, mental illness, and what families fear
An honest, plain guide to the fears around marriage and mental illness in India: what is true about heredity, how and when to talk about a condition, and why a treated illness and a full married life belong together.
For everyone
Free to read
Recovery is real
What recovery actually means, the evidence that most people improve with the right treatment and support, what tends to help along the way, and how to see the person and not the label.
For everyone
Free to read
Myth vs fact: what mental illness actually is, and is not
Myth sorted from fact, and the simple skill of what to say to a struggling friend.
For everyone
Free to read
Mental health at work
A warm, plain-language guide for a working adult managing a mental-health condition on the job: what you carry to work, why you do not owe anyone the whole story, how to think about disclosure, reasonable adjustments and returning after leave, a manager who is an ally, and where the real help is. Free and cited, from the Weave Family Library.
For everyone
Free to read
Mental health at school
A warm, plain-language guide for a student whose mind feels heavy at school, and for the adults around them: what a heavy mind is really telling you, how to tell a teacher or counsellor, how friends can help without carrying it all, and where to get free help. Free and cited, from the Weave Family Library.
For everyone
Free to read
A community that makes room
A warm, plain-language guide for neighbours and community or faith leaders who want to support people living with mental illness: how everyday stigma hurts, what mental illness really is, why meeting a real person changes everything, and the small, steady acts that build a community that makes room. Free and cited, from the Weave Family Library.
Neurodivergence
Neurodivergence
Free to read
Living with an ADHD mind
A calm, plain read on the adult ADHD mind: why it works the way it does, what actually helps, and how to be kinder to yourself along the way.
Neurodivergence
Free to read
Your ADHD toolkit
The fillable companion to the ADHD booklet: a one-thing-a-day tracker, a focus-and-sleep week, a personal setup worksheet, and doctor-prep. Free and cited.
Neurodivergence
Free to read
Living as an autistic adult
A calm, plain read on being an autistic adult: that it is a different way the brain is wired and not an illness, how it can show up, why life may have felt harder, what actually helps, and when to reach out.
Neurodivergence
Coming soon
Your child and ADHD
A parent's field guide to an ADHD child: what the behaviour is telling you, the everyday skills that turn the volume down, and how to work with the school.
Neurodivergence
Coming soon
Loving someone with ADHD
For partners: why the same fights keep happening, what is the ADHD and what is not, and the small changes that ease the load on both of you.
Neurodivergence
Coming soon
Medicines for ADHD: what to weigh
A neutral, side-by-side look at starting medication for ADHD: the gains, the costs, and the questions to take to your doctor. No push either way.
Anxiety
Anxiety
Free to read
Living with an anxious mind
A calm, plain read on an anxious mind: what anxiety really is beyond worry, why the body sets off a false alarm, how avoidance keeps it going, and what actually helps.
Anxiety
Free to read
Your child and anxiety
A warm, practical guide for the parent of a worried child: how to see the fear underneath the behaviour, lower the heat at home, take small brave steps together, and know when to get help.
Anxiety
Free to read
Loving someone with anxiety
A warm, practical guide for the husband, wife or partner of someone who lives with anxiety: how to step out of the reassurance loop, support small brave steps, and stay a couple while still looking after yourself.
Anxiety
Free to read
Your sibling and anxiety
A warm, plain guide for the brother or sister of someone who lives with heavy, ongoing worry: why the house tilted the way it did, the load you quietly carry, and how to be there for them without losing yourself.
Low mood
Low mood
Free to read
When the low mood stays
For when sadness has outstayed its welcome: what depression really is, what lifts it, and the small first steps that count.
Low mood
Free to read
Loving someone through low mood
A warm, practical guide for the husband, wife or partner of someone going through low mood: how to stay in their corner without losing yourself, step out of the cheer-up-and-withdraw loop, and reach for help together.
Low mood
Free to read
Your sibling and low mood
A warm, honest guide for the brother or sister of someone living with a heavy, lasting low mood: how to carry the load you did not choose, let your own feelings count, and be there without losing yourself.
Low mood
Free to read
When someone you love has low mood
A warm, plain guide for the person standing beside someone with depression: why a low mood that stays is an illness and not laziness, what it looks like up close, what actually helps from you, how to look after yourself, and when to step in.
Perinatal
Perinatal
Free to read
Your mind after birth
A warm, plain-language guide for a new mother struggling with mood, worry, or feeling not-herself in the weeks and months after birth: what is passing and what is worth telling someone about, what actually helps, how to handle frightening thoughts, and how to reach for help. Free and cited, from the Weave Family Library.
Perinatal
Free to read
Your after-birth wellbeing toolkit
A fillable companion for a new mother: a rest-and-feeds plan, a weekly mood-and-sleep check, a support map, a calm-down card, doctor-visit prompts, and a red-flag list. Free and cited, from the Weave Family Library.
Perinatal
Free to read
Worry in pregnancy
A warm, plain-language guide for a pregnant woman carrying heavy worry: what antenatal anxiety is, why it is common and not by itself harming your baby, what genuinely helps, when to be seen, and how to reach out. Free and cited, from the Weave Family Library.
Perinatal
Free to read
When she is struggling after the baby
A warm, practical guide for the partner of a new mother who seems low, anxious, or not herself after birth: how to see what is really happening, what your help can actually do, the warning signs that need a doctor now, your own strain, and getting help together. Free and cited, from the Weave Family Library.
Perinatal
Free to read
Supporting a new mother
A warm, plain-language guide for the family around a new mother: what the fourth trimester really asks of her, how comparison and pressure quietly weigh her down, the support that actually lands, when she needs a doctor, how to protect her rest, and how to help without shame. Free and cited, from the Weave Family Library.
Sleep
Sleep
Free to read
When sleep won't come
For the nights sleep won't come: why broken sleep is a health problem and not weak willpower, what throws your body clock off, and the small habits that bring sleep back.
Sleep
Free to read
When your child cannot sleep
A warm, plain guide for the parent of a child who cannot fall asleep or stay asleep, and the calm, steady changes that turn bedtime from a nightly fight into an easier night for both of you.
Sleep
Free to read
When your partner cannot sleep
A warm, practical guide for the husband, wife or partner of someone who cannot sleep: how to step out of the clock-watching loop, guard your own rest, and help them reach the care that treats it.
Substance use
Substance use
Free to read
Cutting down, living free
A warm, non-judging read on cutting down or stopping alcohol and other drugs: why it is not about willpower, how craving takes hold, when stopping can need a doctor, and what actually helps.
Substance use
Free to read
Loving someone who drinks or uses
A warm, practical guide for the partner of someone whose drinking or using has taken over: how to step out of the covering-up loop, help in a way that works, and stay safe while looking after yourself.
Substance use
Free to read
When someone you love is drinking or using
A warm, practical guide for families: why a loved one's drinking or drug use is a treatable condition and not your fault, how to talk so they can hear you, what to do when they refuse help, and the danger signs that need a doctor now.
Trauma
Trauma
Free to read
After something that hurt you
A gentle, plain read for life after a frightening or deeply hurtful event: why your reactions are normal and not weakness, why they linger, what truly helps, and how healing really works.
Trauma
Free to read
Loving someone who has been through trauma
A warm, practical guide for the partner of someone living with the after-effects of trauma: how to stop taking the distance personally, step out of the loop together, and stay whole yourself.
Trauma
Free to read
Your sibling and trauma
A warm, plain guide for the brother or sister of someone who has lived through something very frightening: why the house rearranged itself around them, why the reactions are the injury and not your sibling, and how to be there for them without losing yourself.
OCD
OCD
Free to read
Living with OCD
A calm, plain read on OCD: what obsessions and compulsions really are, how the worry-and-relief loop traps you, why checking and reassurance keep it going, and the treatment that genuinely works.
Bipolar
Bipolar
Free to read
Living with a bipolar mind
A calm, plain read on a bipolar mind: what it really is beyond the highs and lows, how staying well actually works, and how to be steadier and kinder to yourself.
Bipolar
Free to read
Your bipolar toolkit
The fillable companion to the bipolar booklet: a daily check-in, your own early-warning-signs plan, a staying-well plan, and doctor-prep. Free and cited.
Bipolar
Free to read
Loving someone with bipolar
A warm, practical guide for the husband, wife or partner of someone with bipolar: how to read the two weathers as a team, protect sleep and routine, stay in their corner without losing yourself, and know when to get help fast.
Bipolar
Free to read
Your sibling and bipolar
A warm, plain-language guide for the brother or sister of someone who lives with big mood swings: understand the load you carry, separate the illness from the person, and know where to get help, for them and for you.
Bipolar
Free to read
Supporting someone with mood swings, without losing yourself
A warm, plain guide for the family of someone with mood swings: what the two sides really are, what helps in each, and when to act.
Unusual experiences
Unusual experiences
Free to read
Making sense of unusual experiences
A calm, plain read for anyone going through unusual experiences: hearing or seeing things others do not, or holding a belief others do not share. What these experiences are, why they happen, what truly helps, and how reaching out early changes things.
Unusual experiences
Free to read
Medicines for unusual experiences: what to weigh
A calm, neutral weigh-up to help you and your doctor decide whether to start or continue medicine after a spell of unusual experiences, with the gains, the costs, and the questions to take to your doctor. No push either way. Free and cited, from the Weave Family Library.
Memory
Memory
Free to read
When memory starts to fade
A calm, plain read on memory change in later life: how some forgetting can be normal, when it is a health condition of the brain, the causes a doctor can treat, what really helps, and how to care for an older relative and for yourself.
Memory
Free to read
Your memory and daily-life toolkit
A fillable companion for older adults and their carers: a weekly routine grid, a where-things-live list, a medicine and appointment tracker, doctor-visit questions, and a brain-and-body habits check. Free and cited, from the Weave Family Library.
Memory
Free to read
When your partner’s memory changes
A warm, plain-language guide for a spouse or partner of someone whose memory is changing: what the change is and is not, how to stay close as partners, the quiet grief of becoming a carer, and how to get help together. Free and cited, from the Weave Family Library.
Memory
Free to read
When a parent's memory fades
A warm, plain-language guide for the adult child caring for a parent whose memory and thinking are slipping: how to see the changes clearly without guessing at a diagnosis, how to help day to day with dignity, how to handle the hard moments without losing your temper, how to look after yourself on a long road, and when to see a doctor. Free and cited, from the Weave Family Library.
Eating
Eating
Free to read
Making peace with food
A calm, plain read on a hard relationship with food: why it is a real illness and not vanity, how it can take hold as a way of coping, the help that actually works, and why recovery is real.
The whole shelf, as a plan
Every book is one cell: a series (the row) meeting a condition (the column). Filled dots are on the shelf or on the way. Faint dots are planned. We build where the need is highest first.
| Series | For everyone | Neurodivergence | Anxiety | Low mood | Perinatal | Sleep | Substance use | Trauma | OCD | Bipolar | Unusual experiences | Memory | Eating |
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| For You | |||||||||||||
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| The Partner's Guide | |||||||||||||
| When Your Parent Is Unwell | |||||||||||||
| The Sibling's Guide | |||||||||||||
| Caring for an Ageing Parent | |||||||||||||
| The Friend and Ally's Guide | |||||||||||||
| The Community Carer's Guide | |||||||||||||
| The Carer's Guide | |||||||||||||
| Everyone | |||||||||||||
| Stigma & Society |
For You19
The Parent's Guide3
The Partner's Guide9
The Sibling's Guide4
Caring for an Ageing Parent1
The Friend and Ally's Guide1
The Carer's Guide4
Everyone6
Stigma & Society6
For Youthe person living with it
Written to you, in your corner. What is happening, what helps, and how to get back on your feet.
Neurodivergence
Free to read
Living with an ADHD mind
A calm, plain read on the adult ADHD mind: why it works the way it does, what actually helps, and how to be kinder to yourself along the way.
Neurodivergence
Free to read
Your ADHD toolkit
The fillable companion to the ADHD booklet: a one-thing-a-day tracker, a focus-and-sleep week, a personal setup worksheet, and doctor-prep. Free and cited.
Bipolar
Free to read
Living with a bipolar mind
A calm, plain read on a bipolar mind: what it really is beyond the highs and lows, how staying well actually works, and how to be steadier and kinder to yourself.
Bipolar
Free to read
Your bipolar toolkit
The fillable companion to the bipolar booklet: a daily check-in, your own early-warning-signs plan, a staying-well plan, and doctor-prep. Free and cited.
Anxiety
Free to read
Living with an anxious mind
A calm, plain read on an anxious mind: what anxiety really is beyond worry, why the body sets off a false alarm, how avoidance keeps it going, and what actually helps.
Substance use
Free to read
Cutting down, living free
A warm, non-judging read on cutting down or stopping alcohol and other drugs: why it is not about willpower, how craving takes hold, when stopping can need a doctor, and what actually helps.
Low mood
Free to read
When the low mood stays
For when sadness has outstayed its welcome: what depression really is, what lifts it, and the small first steps that count.
Sleep
Free to read
When sleep won't come
For the nights sleep won't come: why broken sleep is a health problem and not weak willpower, what throws your body clock off, and the small habits that bring sleep back.
Trauma
Free to read
After something that hurt you
A gentle, plain read for life after a frightening or deeply hurtful event: why your reactions are normal and not weakness, why they linger, what truly helps, and how healing really works.
OCD
Free to read
Living with OCD
A calm, plain read on OCD: what obsessions and compulsions really are, how the worry-and-relief loop traps you, why checking and reassurance keep it going, and the treatment that genuinely works.
Unusual experiences
Free to read
Making sense of unusual experiences
A calm, plain read for anyone going through unusual experiences: hearing or seeing things others do not, or holding a belief others do not share. What these experiences are, why they happen, what truly helps, and how reaching out early changes things.
Neurodivergence
Free to read
Living as an autistic adult
A calm, plain read on being an autistic adult: that it is a different way the brain is wired and not an illness, how it can show up, why life may have felt harder, what actually helps, and when to reach out.
Memory
Free to read
When memory starts to fade
A calm, plain read on memory change in later life: how some forgetting can be normal, when it is a health condition of the brain, the causes a doctor can treat, what really helps, and how to care for an older relative and for yourself.
Eating
Free to read
Making peace with food
A calm, plain read on a hard relationship with food: why it is a real illness and not vanity, how it can take hold as a way of coping, the help that actually works, and why recovery is real.
Memory
Free to read
Your memory and daily-life toolkit
A fillable companion for older adults and their carers: a weekly routine grid, a where-things-live list, a medicine and appointment tracker, doctor-visit questions, and a brain-and-body habits check. Free and cited, from the Weave Family Library.
Perinatal
Free to read
Your mind after birth
A warm, plain-language guide for a new mother struggling with mood, worry, or feeling not-herself in the weeks and months after birth: what is passing and what is worth telling someone about, what actually helps, how to handle frightening thoughts, and how to reach for help. Free and cited, from the Weave Family Library.
Perinatal
Free to read
Your after-birth wellbeing toolkit
A fillable companion for a new mother: a rest-and-feeds plan, a weekly mood-and-sleep check, a support map, a calm-down card, doctor-visit prompts, and a red-flag list. Free and cited, from the Weave Family Library.
Perinatal
Free to read
Worry in pregnancy
A warm, plain-language guide for a pregnant woman carrying heavy worry: what antenatal anxiety is, why it is common and not by itself harming your baby, what genuinely helps, when to be seen, and how to reach out. Free and cited, from the Weave Family Library.
Unusual experiences
Free to read
Medicines for unusual experiences: what to weigh
A calm, neutral weigh-up to help you and your doctor decide whether to start or continue medicine after a spell of unusual experiences, with the gains, the costs, and the questions to take to your doctor. No push either way. Free and cited, from the Weave Family Library.
The Parent's Guidea parent of a child or teen
For raising a child who works differently. Skills that lower the heat at home, and the science behind why they work.
Neurodivergence
Coming soon
Your child and ADHD
A parent's field guide to an ADHD child: what the behaviour is telling you, the everyday skills that turn the volume down, and how to work with the school.
Anxiety
Free to read
Your child and anxiety
A warm, practical guide for the parent of a worried child: how to see the fear underneath the behaviour, lower the heat at home, take small brave steps together, and know when to get help.
Sleep
Free to read
When your child cannot sleep
A warm, plain guide for the parent of a child who cannot fall asleep or stay asleep, and the calm, steady changes that turn bedtime from a nightly fight into an easier night for both of you.
The Partner's Guidea spouse or partner
For the person beside them. What is theirs, what is yours, and how to carry the weeks where it is hard without losing yourself.
Neurodivergence
Coming soon
Loving someone with ADHD
For partners: why the same fights keep happening, what is the ADHD and what is not, and the small changes that ease the load on both of you.
Memory
Free to read
When your partner’s memory changes
A warm, plain-language guide for a spouse or partner of someone whose memory is changing: what the change is and is not, how to stay close as partners, the quiet grief of becoming a carer, and how to get help together. Free and cited, from the Weave Family Library.
Perinatal
Free to read
When she is struggling after the baby
A warm, practical guide for the partner of a new mother who seems low, anxious, or not herself after birth: how to see what is really happening, what your help can actually do, the warning signs that need a doctor now, your own strain, and getting help together. Free and cited, from the Weave Family Library.
Anxiety
Free to read
Loving someone with anxiety
A warm, practical guide for the husband, wife or partner of someone who lives with anxiety: how to step out of the reassurance loop, support small brave steps, and stay a couple while still looking after yourself.
Low mood
Free to read
Loving someone through low mood
A warm, practical guide for the husband, wife or partner of someone going through low mood: how to stay in their corner without losing yourself, step out of the cheer-up-and-withdraw loop, and reach for help together.
Bipolar
Free to read
Loving someone with bipolar
A warm, practical guide for the husband, wife or partner of someone with bipolar: how to read the two weathers as a team, protect sleep and routine, stay in their corner without losing yourself, and know when to get help fast.
Substance use
Free to read
Loving someone who drinks or uses
A warm, practical guide for the partner of someone whose drinking or using has taken over: how to step out of the covering-up loop, help in a way that works, and stay safe while looking after yourself.
Trauma
Free to read
Loving someone who has been through trauma
A warm, practical guide for the partner of someone living with the after-effects of trauma: how to stop taking the distance personally, step out of the loop together, and stay whole yourself.
Sleep
Free to read
When your partner cannot sleep
A warm, practical guide for the husband, wife or partner of someone who cannot sleep: how to step out of the clock-watching loop, guard your own rest, and help them reach the care that treats it.
The Sibling's Guideadult and teen siblings
For brothers and sisters: the load you did not choose, the future you are quietly bracing for, and how to share it.
Anxiety
Free to read
Your sibling and anxiety
A warm, plain guide for the brother or sister of someone who lives with heavy, ongoing worry: why the house tilted the way it did, the load you quietly carry, and how to be there for them without losing yourself.
Low mood
Free to read
Your sibling and low mood
A warm, honest guide for the brother or sister of someone living with a heavy, lasting low mood: how to carry the load you did not choose, let your own feelings count, and be there without losing yourself.
Bipolar
Free to read
Your sibling and bipolar
A warm, plain-language guide for the brother or sister of someone who lives with big mood swings: understand the load you carry, separate the illness from the person, and know where to get help, for them and for you.
Trauma
Free to read
Your sibling and trauma
A warm, plain guide for the brother or sister of someone who has lived through something very frightening: why the house rearranged itself around them, why the reactions are the injury and not your sibling, and how to be there for them without losing yourself.
Caring for an Ageing Parentadult children
For the generation in the middle. Memory, dignity, and the practical things nobody warns you about.
Memory
Free to read
When a parent's memory fades
A warm, plain-language guide for the adult child caring for a parent whose memory and thinking are slipping: how to see the changes clearly without guessing at a diagnosis, how to help day to day with dignity, how to handle the hard moments without losing your temper, how to look after yourself on a long road, and when to see a doctor. Free and cited, from the Weave Family Library.
The Friend and Ally's Guidefriends and colleagues
For the people on the edges who want to help and are not sure how. When to step in, what to say, where the line is.
For everyone
Free to read
Staying connected: how ordinary people help prevent suicide
A warm, plain-language guide for any ordinary person who wants to help prevent suicide: why connection is real protection, how to ask plainly without fear, how to notice the quiet signs, how to reach out and stay, what to do after a hard conversation, and how to look after yourself as the helper. Free and cited, from the Weave Family Library.
The Carer's Guidesomeone caring for a person they love
For the people who care. How to help without burning out, what to say, and how to hold your own life while you hold theirs.
Low mood
Free to read
When someone you love has low mood
A warm, plain guide for the person standing beside someone with depression: why a low mood that stays is an illness and not laziness, what it looks like up close, what actually helps from you, how to look after yourself, and when to step in.
Bipolar
Free to read
Supporting someone with mood swings, without losing yourself
A warm, plain guide for the family of someone with mood swings: what the two sides really are, what helps in each, and when to act.
Substance use
Free to read
When someone you love is drinking or using
A warm, practical guide for families: why a loved one's drinking or drug use is a treatable condition and not your fault, how to talk so they can hear you, what to do when they refuse help, and the danger signs that need a doctor now.
Perinatal
Free to read
Supporting a new mother
A warm, plain-language guide for the family around a new mother: what the fourth trimester really asks of her, how comparison and pressure quietly weigh her down, the support that actually lands, when she needs a doctor, how to protect her rest, and how to help without shame. Free and cited, from the Weave Family Library.
Everyoneanyone, on any page
The shared cards that sit across the whole shelf. Read these whoever you are.
Neurodivergence
Coming soon
Medicines for ADHD: what to weigh
A neutral, side-by-side look at starting medication for ADHD: the gains, the costs, and the questions to take to your doctor. No push either way.
For everyone
Free to read
When it feels like too much
Warning signs, what to do right now, and Indian helpline numbers. One page, free, on every book in the shelf.
For everyone
Free to read
If you are not safe right now
If you are not safe right now, you are not alone and help is one call away. This card puts the national helpline first, lists the numbers worth keeping, and walks through the few simple steps that carry a person through the next hours.
For everyone
Free to read
When someone you love may be suicidal
A calm, plain guide for when you are scared a loved one may be suicidal: what to do right now, the warning signs, how to ask plainly, and how to stay. If you need help now, call Tele-MANAS at 14416.
For everyone
Free to read
Facing it together: a relationship and mental health
A warm, plain-language guide for a couple where one or both partners live with a mental-health condition, or where stress is straining the bond: why love alone is not enough, how to talk so you both feel heard, how to share the load without one becoming the nurse, how to keep the couple alive, and how to get help together. Free and cited, from the Weave Family Library.
For everyone
Free to read
Getting through exam stress
A warm, plain-language guide for a student under crushing exam pressure: why the fear is real and normal, when stress tips from helping to hurting, what actually helps you study, how to calm your body before and on the day, why your worth is more than a score, and how to reach out when it gets too heavy. Free and cited, from the Weave Family Library.
Stigma & Societyall of us
How we see mental illness, and how to see it better. Lived-experience stories, honest facts, and the conversations that change minds.
For everyone
Free to read
Marriage, mental illness, and what families fear
An honest, plain guide to the fears around marriage and mental illness in India: what is true about heredity, how and when to talk about a condition, and why a treated illness and a full married life belong together.
For everyone
Free to read
Recovery is real
What recovery actually means, the evidence that most people improve with the right treatment and support, what tends to help along the way, and how to see the person and not the label.
For everyone
Free to read
Myth vs fact: what mental illness actually is, and is not
Myth sorted from fact, and the simple skill of what to say to a struggling friend.
For everyone
Free to read
Mental health at work
A warm, plain-language guide for a working adult managing a mental-health condition on the job: what you carry to work, why you do not owe anyone the whole story, how to think about disclosure, reasonable adjustments and returning after leave, a manager who is an ally, and where the real help is. Free and cited, from the Weave Family Library.
For everyone
Free to read
Mental health at school
A warm, plain-language guide for a student whose mind feels heavy at school, and for the adults around them: what a heavy mind is really telling you, how to tell a teacher or counsellor, how friends can help without carrying it all, and where to get free help. Free and cited, from the Weave Family Library.
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A community that makes room
A warm, plain-language guide for neighbours and community or faith leaders who want to support people living with mental illness: how everyday stigma hurts, what mental illness really is, why meeting a real person changes everything, and the small, steady acts that build a community that makes room. Free and cited, from the Weave Family Library.
Just noticing something is off1
Getting help4
Medicines and side effects2
Living with it45
Getting back on your feet1
Just noticing something is off
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Myth vs fact: what mental illness actually is, and is not
Myth sorted from fact, and the simple skill of what to say to a struggling friend.
Getting help
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Staying connected: how ordinary people help prevent suicide
A warm, plain-language guide for any ordinary person who wants to help prevent suicide: why connection is real protection, how to ask plainly without fear, how to notice the quiet signs, how to reach out and stay, what to do after a hard conversation, and how to look after yourself as the helper. Free and cited, from the Weave Family Library.
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When it feels like too much
Warning signs, what to do right now, and Indian helpline numbers. One page, free, on every book in the shelf.
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If you are not safe right now
If you are not safe right now, you are not alone and help is one call away. This card puts the national helpline first, lists the numbers worth keeping, and walks through the few simple steps that carry a person through the next hours.
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When someone you love may be suicidal
A calm, plain guide for when you are scared a loved one may be suicidal: what to do right now, the warning signs, how to ask plainly, and how to stay. If you need help now, call Tele-MANAS at 14416.
Medicines and side effects
Unusual experiences
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Medicines for unusual experiences: what to weigh
A calm, neutral weigh-up to help you and your doctor decide whether to start or continue medicine after a spell of unusual experiences, with the gains, the costs, and the questions to take to your doctor. No push either way. Free and cited, from the Weave Family Library.
Neurodivergence
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Medicines for ADHD: what to weigh
A neutral, side-by-side look at starting medication for ADHD: the gains, the costs, and the questions to take to your doctor. No push either way.
Living with it
Neurodivergence
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Living with an ADHD mind
A calm, plain read on the adult ADHD mind: why it works the way it does, what actually helps, and how to be kinder to yourself along the way.
Neurodivergence
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Your ADHD toolkit
The fillable companion to the ADHD booklet: a one-thing-a-day tracker, a focus-and-sleep week, a personal setup worksheet, and doctor-prep. Free and cited.
Bipolar
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Living with a bipolar mind
A calm, plain read on a bipolar mind: what it really is beyond the highs and lows, how staying well actually works, and how to be steadier and kinder to yourself.
Bipolar
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Your bipolar toolkit
The fillable companion to the bipolar booklet: a daily check-in, your own early-warning-signs plan, a staying-well plan, and doctor-prep. Free and cited.
Anxiety
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Living with an anxious mind
A calm, plain read on an anxious mind: what anxiety really is beyond worry, why the body sets off a false alarm, how avoidance keeps it going, and what actually helps.
Substance use
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Cutting down, living free
A warm, non-judging read on cutting down or stopping alcohol and other drugs: why it is not about willpower, how craving takes hold, when stopping can need a doctor, and what actually helps.
Low mood
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When the low mood stays
For when sadness has outstayed its welcome: what depression really is, what lifts it, and the small first steps that count.
Sleep
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When sleep won't come
For the nights sleep won't come: why broken sleep is a health problem and not weak willpower, what throws your body clock off, and the small habits that bring sleep back.
Trauma
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After something that hurt you
A gentle, plain read for life after a frightening or deeply hurtful event: why your reactions are normal and not weakness, why they linger, what truly helps, and how healing really works.
OCD
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Living with OCD
A calm, plain read on OCD: what obsessions and compulsions really are, how the worry-and-relief loop traps you, why checking and reassurance keep it going, and the treatment that genuinely works.
Unusual experiences
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Making sense of unusual experiences
A calm, plain read for anyone going through unusual experiences: hearing or seeing things others do not, or holding a belief others do not share. What these experiences are, why they happen, what truly helps, and how reaching out early changes things.
Neurodivergence
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Living as an autistic adult
A calm, plain read on being an autistic adult: that it is a different way the brain is wired and not an illness, how it can show up, why life may have felt harder, what actually helps, and when to reach out.
Memory
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When memory starts to fade
A calm, plain read on memory change in later life: how some forgetting can be normal, when it is a health condition of the brain, the causes a doctor can treat, what really helps, and how to care for an older relative and for yourself.
Eating
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Making peace with food
A calm, plain read on a hard relationship with food: why it is a real illness and not vanity, how it can take hold as a way of coping, the help that actually works, and why recovery is real.
Memory
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Your memory and daily-life toolkit
A fillable companion for older adults and their carers: a weekly routine grid, a where-things-live list, a medicine and appointment tracker, doctor-visit questions, and a brain-and-body habits check. Free and cited, from the Weave Family Library.
Perinatal
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Your mind after birth
A warm, plain-language guide for a new mother struggling with mood, worry, or feeling not-herself in the weeks and months after birth: what is passing and what is worth telling someone about, what actually helps, how to handle frightening thoughts, and how to reach for help. Free and cited, from the Weave Family Library.
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Your after-birth wellbeing toolkit
A fillable companion for a new mother: a rest-and-feeds plan, a weekly mood-and-sleep check, a support map, a calm-down card, doctor-visit prompts, and a red-flag list. Free and cited, from the Weave Family Library.
Perinatal
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Worry in pregnancy
A warm, plain-language guide for a pregnant woman carrying heavy worry: what antenatal anxiety is, why it is common and not by itself harming your baby, what genuinely helps, when to be seen, and how to reach out. Free and cited, from the Weave Family Library.
Neurodivergence
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Your child and ADHD
A parent's field guide to an ADHD child: what the behaviour is telling you, the everyday skills that turn the volume down, and how to work with the school.
Anxiety
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Your child and anxiety
A warm, practical guide for the parent of a worried child: how to see the fear underneath the behaviour, lower the heat at home, take small brave steps together, and know when to get help.
Sleep
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When your child cannot sleep
A warm, plain guide for the parent of a child who cannot fall asleep or stay asleep, and the calm, steady changes that turn bedtime from a nightly fight into an easier night for both of you.
Neurodivergence
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Loving someone with ADHD
For partners: why the same fights keep happening, what is the ADHD and what is not, and the small changes that ease the load on both of you.
Memory
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When your partner’s memory changes
A warm, plain-language guide for a spouse or partner of someone whose memory is changing: what the change is and is not, how to stay close as partners, the quiet grief of becoming a carer, and how to get help together. Free and cited, from the Weave Family Library.
Perinatal
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When she is struggling after the baby
A warm, practical guide for the partner of a new mother who seems low, anxious, or not herself after birth: how to see what is really happening, what your help can actually do, the warning signs that need a doctor now, your own strain, and getting help together. Free and cited, from the Weave Family Library.
Anxiety
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Loving someone with anxiety
A warm, practical guide for the husband, wife or partner of someone who lives with anxiety: how to step out of the reassurance loop, support small brave steps, and stay a couple while still looking after yourself.
Low mood
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Loving someone through low mood
A warm, practical guide for the husband, wife or partner of someone going through low mood: how to stay in their corner without losing yourself, step out of the cheer-up-and-withdraw loop, and reach for help together.
Bipolar
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Loving someone with bipolar
A warm, practical guide for the husband, wife or partner of someone with bipolar: how to read the two weathers as a team, protect sleep and routine, stay in their corner without losing yourself, and know when to get help fast.
Substance use
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Loving someone who drinks or uses
A warm, practical guide for the partner of someone whose drinking or using has taken over: how to step out of the covering-up loop, help in a way that works, and stay safe while looking after yourself.
Trauma
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Loving someone who has been through trauma
A warm, practical guide for the partner of someone living with the after-effects of trauma: how to stop taking the distance personally, step out of the loop together, and stay whole yourself.
Sleep
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When your partner cannot sleep
A warm, practical guide for the husband, wife or partner of someone who cannot sleep: how to step out of the clock-watching loop, guard your own rest, and help them reach the care that treats it.
Anxiety
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Your sibling and anxiety
A warm, plain guide for the brother or sister of someone who lives with heavy, ongoing worry: why the house tilted the way it did, the load you quietly carry, and how to be there for them without losing yourself.
Low mood
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Your sibling and low mood
A warm, honest guide for the brother or sister of someone living with a heavy, lasting low mood: how to carry the load you did not choose, let your own feelings count, and be there without losing yourself.
Bipolar
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Your sibling and bipolar
A warm, plain-language guide for the brother or sister of someone who lives with big mood swings: understand the load you carry, separate the illness from the person, and know where to get help, for them and for you.
Trauma
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Your sibling and trauma
A warm, plain guide for the brother or sister of someone who has lived through something very frightening: why the house rearranged itself around them, why the reactions are the injury and not your sibling, and how to be there for them without losing yourself.
Memory
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When a parent's memory fades
A warm, plain-language guide for the adult child caring for a parent whose memory and thinking are slipping: how to see the changes clearly without guessing at a diagnosis, how to help day to day with dignity, how to handle the hard moments without losing your temper, how to look after yourself on a long road, and when to see a doctor. Free and cited, from the Weave Family Library.
Low mood
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When someone you love has low mood
A warm, plain guide for the person standing beside someone with depression: why a low mood that stays is an illness and not laziness, what it looks like up close, what actually helps from you, how to look after yourself, and when to step in.
Bipolar
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Supporting someone with mood swings, without losing yourself
A warm, plain guide for the family of someone with mood swings: what the two sides really are, what helps in each, and when to act.
Substance use
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When someone you love is drinking or using
A warm, practical guide for families: why a loved one's drinking or drug use is a treatable condition and not your fault, how to talk so they can hear you, what to do when they refuse help, and the danger signs that need a doctor now.
Perinatal
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Supporting a new mother
A warm, plain-language guide for the family around a new mother: what the fourth trimester really asks of her, how comparison and pressure quietly weigh her down, the support that actually lands, when she needs a doctor, how to protect her rest, and how to help without shame. Free and cited, from the Weave Family Library.
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Facing it together: a relationship and mental health
A warm, plain-language guide for a couple where one or both partners live with a mental-health condition, or where stress is straining the bond: why love alone is not enough, how to talk so you both feel heard, how to share the load without one becoming the nurse, how to keep the couple alive, and how to get help together. Free and cited, from the Weave Family Library.
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Getting through exam stress
A warm, plain-language guide for a student under crushing exam pressure: why the fear is real and normal, when stress tips from helping to hurting, what actually helps you study, how to calm your body before and on the day, why your worth is more than a score, and how to reach out when it gets too heavy. Free and cited, from the Weave Family Library.
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Marriage, mental illness, and what families fear
An honest, plain guide to the fears around marriage and mental illness in India: what is true about heredity, how and when to talk about a condition, and why a treated illness and a full married life belong together.
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Mental health at work
A warm, plain-language guide for a working adult managing a mental-health condition on the job: what you carry to work, why you do not owe anyone the whole story, how to think about disclosure, reasonable adjustments and returning after leave, a manager who is an ally, and where the real help is. Free and cited, from the Weave Family Library.
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Mental health at school
A warm, plain-language guide for a student whose mind feels heavy at school, and for the adults around them: what a heavy mind is really telling you, how to tell a teacher or counsellor, how friends can help without carrying it all, and where to get free help. Free and cited, from the Weave Family Library.
For everyone
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A community that makes room
A warm, plain-language guide for neighbours and community or faith leaders who want to support people living with mental illness: how everyday stigma hurts, what mental illness really is, why meeting a real person changes everything, and the small, steady acts that build a community that makes room. Free and cited, from the Weave Family Library.
Getting back on your feet
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Recovery is real
What recovery actually means, the evidence that most people improve with the right treatment and support, what tends to help along the way, and how to see the person and not the label.
Plain-language reading
Understanding what you're going through
A diagnosis is not who you are. It is a clinician's shorthand for a pattern, a way to understand what is going on underneath so it can be helped. Read these to understand the pattern, never to define yourself by it.
ADHD in Adults
Real, common, and easy to miss, especially in women. Why the mind runs this way, and what helps.
Read more →Addictions
Alcohol, gambling, gaming, endless scrolling. Why they take hold, and how the way back is through connection.
Read more →What Is Psychosis?
For families: the early signs, what helps, and how recovery actually happens.
Read more →Sleep Better Tonight
Evidence-based sleep science, adapted for Indian routines and real life.
Read more →Chronic Pain & Your Mind
Pain that stays after an injury heals is real. How the mind and body keep it going, and what eases it.
Read more →Sexual Health & Your Mind
Desire, performance worry, and the links to mood, stress, and the medicines you may be on.
Read more →Supplements & Mental Health
Omega-3, vitamin D, magnesium, B12, ashwagandha: what the research really shows.
Read more →Screens & Your Child
What screens do to a growing brain, and how to set limits that actually hold.
Read more →Raising Children
Temperament, parenting styles, and the everyday patterns that shape a child.
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