Mental health

These seven individuals are working towards bridging the affordable mental health services gap and making therapy available where needed.

Rohini Rajeev, a psychotherapist and social worker, started The Able Mind to make affordable and timely mental healthcare accessible across India.

Playing a pivotal role in laying the foundation of mental health services in India, Dr. Girindrasekhar Bose was a pioneering psychoanalyst who set up India’s first psychiatric outpatient department (OPD) in Kolkata.

Today, Dinesh Mohan is an actor and model, a ‘silver fox’ as he calls himself. He narrates how starkly different things were back in 2012, when he weighed more than 125 kg and was battling depression and grief.

Set up by former Army doctor Dr Sunil Kaul and his partner Jennifer Liang, Mental Illness Treatment Alliance (MITA) has helped thousands in rural Northeast India access affordable mental healthcare.

After life threw a series of blows on Jaikishaan Sharma’s happy family life in Ahmedabad, he lost his will to live and tried to end it. Here’s his inspirational journey of becoming a successful mindset coach and starting DreamChair Club.

Manila Bachan was sexually abused as child and suffered the traumatic experience alone for many years. She was eventually diagnosed with clinical depression and bipolar disorder. Watch how she set out on her healing journey.

When the pandemic hit, Bengaluru engineer Sohail Nargund started knitting to overcome anxiety. Today, his hobby earns him million of views on Instagram and a neat profit too.

Devshri Chandrakar has been living with bipolar disordersince she was 19 years old. She used art to cope with her mental illness after her college denied her graduation degree.