Mental Health

With mental health issues on the rise, here’s how companies can step up to build a healthy work environment.

Shraddha Rehabilitation Foundation was founded by Dr Bharat Vatwani and his wife, Dr Smitha to deal with the tragedies of the homeless, mentally ill, and more.

Sisters Sanjoli and Ananya Banerjee began engaging in activism and fighting female foeticide from a young age. Today, they champion many causes -- education, menstrual hygiene, mental health and more.

Khushi Jain from Gurgaon narrates her battles with anorexia and body dysmorphia, and how ‘diet culture’ is a slippery slope when it comes to eating disorders and mental health.

Sulochana and Niraj Beru began the Beru Matimand Pratishthan to care for patients with mental disabilities after watching their own son suffer due to a broken system

We need to recognise that suicide is a societal failure. To change this it will take a village — we need policy makers, people, and the media to collaborate.

UK-based writer Millie Sansoye speaks of when she weighed only 33 kg due to her eating disorder — anorexia. Here's how she became healthy again and dealt with the stigma attached to the mental illness in the Indian community.

Writer Deepali Raina speaks of the change she has witnessed in her beloved father who is suffering from advanced Parkinson's disease and the life lessons she has learnt along the way.

Pune-based Amrit Kumar Bakhshy, former president of the Schizophrenia Awareness Association, talks about his daughter’s schizophrenia, his book on caregivers in India, and his role in helping draft the Mental Healthcare Act, 2017.

Dr Bharat Vatwani and his wife, Dr Smitha, run the Shraddha Rehabilitation Foundation in Mumbai and Karjat, which aims to rescue and rehabilitate mentally ill patients off the roads, and reunite them with their families.