I live in a society where "mad" is still abuse, "mentally challenged" is conveniently used for criminals, murderers and rapists and mental health thus stands stigmatized.
Being a survivor and an activist I have witnessed this invisibility of mental health in the social discourse around me and the resulting insensitivity about both the survivors and their caregivers is appalling.
I am also a Psychological First Aid practitioner and in my practice, have come across so many people completely unaware of even basics of mental health here.
I also wrote an e-book Mental Health: A Primer with the same purpose.
Still, I feel a lot of people are unaware of so much about mental health around me that more and more needs to be written, so I will be writing about mental health all this year for this campaign and if time and energy allows also doing Hindi translations/paraphrase of the same on my Hindi blog too.
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The cause that you are supporting is amazing. I will be looking forward to your posts.
ReplyDeleteThanks @Purba for your support
DeleteThat is a great initiative. Because, like you said, there are a lot of misconceptions when it comes to mental health.
ReplyDeleteA lot of people care only about good physical health. But good emotional and mental health is much more important.
Looking forward to your posts.