The Corner
Check in with yourself.
A private mental-health self-check for students, offered through their institute. Built because knowing something is wrong is not the same as being able to say it.
Already set up? The self-checks are behind your sign-in.
Why this exists
The Corner is dedicated to a friend and classmate we lost to suicide. He was surrounded by people who would have helped, and none of us knew what he was carrying.
This will not catch everything. It is a questionnaire, not a person. But a short, private way of noticing where you actually are is a start, and it costs a student nothing to take.
Dedication wording and whether to name him — pending his family
Who stands behind it
A registered clinician, not an app.
Varadarajan Sundaramahalingam
Clinical Psychologist
Special Educational Needs Coordinator
- Registration
- RCI Registration A 07719Rehabilitation Council of India, registered since 2006
- Qualification
- M.Phil. Clinical Psychology — Sri Ramachandra Medical College and Research Institute
- Based in
- Nainital, Uttarakhand
Varadarajan Sundaramahalingam is an RCI-registered clinical psychologist with more than twenty-three years in child and adolescent mental health.
He has worked across hospitals, clinics, international NGOs and residential schools — including psycho-social work with families after the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, with Médecins Sans Frontières. His research on barriers to learning has been presented at national conferences and published in peer-reviewed journals.
Day to day he works as a school counsellor and Special Educational Needs Coordinator: with students of exactly the age this is built for, in exactly the setting it is built for.
- Child & adolescent mental health
- School-based counselling
- Neurodevelopmental conditions
- Trauma, PTSD & grief
- Crisis & disaster intervention
He oversees the questionnaires used here and the clinical response behind them.
How it works
Your institute sets it up. Your answers stay yours.
01
Your institute registers you
The institute gives us the email addresses that should have access. There is no code to remember and nothing for you to arrange.
02
You set up your own account
Enter that address, confirm it with a code we email you, and choose your own password. Your institute knows you have access; it does not get to read your answers.
03
You check in when you want to
Three short, validated questionnaires — the longest takes about five minutes. There are no right answers.
The self-check is behind a sign-in.
Not to keep people out — so that what you write stays attached to an account you control rather than to a shared, open page.
Accounts are not live yet — you can walk through setting one up, see the self-checks, or, if you are an institute, look at what your staff would see.