It was probably the most dreadful news a parent could wake up to: ‘a 14-year-old child in Std 9th in Betul, M.P. committed suicide because he missed his school bus’. This unfortunate event took place not because the child felt the pressure of life and studies, but literally because he missed his bus. The ‘Kota …
“What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candour and more unashamed conversation” – Glenn Close The attention that mental health requires is overdue. The need of the hour is to drop the veil of shame around mental health and its deterioration. Along with severe depression and anxiety, issues like overthinking, PTSD, OCD and eating …
*Knock knock* “Who’s there?” “Mental health” “Mental health who?” “And that right there, my dear friend, is the problem..” Mental health has remained an underrated and undiscussed topic for millennia. It has prevailed through the change of times but has never been accepted or fully understood by society. Of late, developed countries have started giving …
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