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Let’s Talk About Mental Health

...more are aware of mental health issues, but the treatment methods in mental health services are traditional. That creates a conflict. THE SWADDLE: Where there is conflict, there is room...

By The Swaddle Team

The Success of Govt’s Proposed Tele‑Mental Health Program Will Depend Entirely on Execution

“The pandemic has accentuated mental health problems in people of all ages. To improve the access to quality mental health counseling and care services, a ‘National Tele Mental Health’ program will...

By Devrupa Rakshit

Mind Over Other Matters

It’s Time for a More Humane Approach to Mental Health Care

...Thus, mental health practitioners have been calling for a shift towards a rights-based approach to mental health that: ensures the availability of (and access to) quality mental health care services;...

By Ara Johannes

As Corporate Mental Health Programs Gain Popularity, Navigating Individual Struggles at Work Still Difficult

...from depression.” The Mental Healthcare Act, 2017, states that no employees shall be discriminated against for suffering from a mental health condition. It has even made it mandatory for all...

By Anubhuti Matta

The Burden of Care

India’s Mental Health Professionals Are Burning Out Amid the Pandemic Rush on Their Services

...in need of mental health care. There’s just one difference: Rao is a therapist herself. The Covid19 pandemic has created a mental health crisis in India. According to a much-reported...

By Liesl Goecker

Invisible and Real

Mumbai‑Based Mental Health Professionals Combat Stigma, Misinformation By Offering Discounted Services

...destigmatizing mental health and providing affordable mental health care, says. Invisible Illness’ free mental health camps currently run out of a Mumbai Rotary Club building. Apart from free screenings and...

Oppression As Illness

We Need to Reframe Mental Health as a Social Justice Issue, Not a Personal Problem

...housing and health care. This discrimination inevitably impacts the mental health and well-being of trans communities, and might even lead to mental health issues for some trans people. How can...

By Shreya Ila Anasuya

Beyond Breaking Stigma

Tell Me More: Talking Mental Health Policy and Media Reportage With Dr. Soumitra Pathare

...and Director of the Centre for Mental Health Law and Policy at the Indian Law Society. His primary interests are in the areas of mental health policy, scaling up mental...

Reclaiming Life

How Deinstitutionalizing Mental Health Can Restore Dignity to Women with Mental Illness

...by their families, and a lack of options to exit the system completely. Mental health activists have criticized India’s mental health institutions as a space where many women struggle to...

By Rohitha Naraharisetty

Happy New Year!

Illinois School Students Can Now Avail 5 Mental Health Days Every Year

...approved mental health days every year, shall be directed to appropriate support systems by their schools. With a mental health crisis rapidly unraveling in the wake of the pandemic, introducing...

By Devrupa Rakshit

What's The Hold-Up?

We Asked Experts Why It Is So Hard to Get Insurance Coverage for Mental Health in India

...Varma, who are research associates at the Centre for Mental Health Law and Policy (CMHLP), Pune. As part of the India Mental Health Observatory set up by the CMHLP last...

By Devrupa Rakshit

Caregivers of People Living With Mental Health Conditions Need Care, Too

...living with mental health conditions. Ironically, although caregivers have taken a load off the public healthcare system, and facilitated the deinstitutionalization of mental health care services — their own wellbeing...

By Ara Johannes

Sign Me Up Please?

Spain Has Set Up a ‘Crying Room’ to Dispel Stigma Around Mental Health

...a mental health challenge… it is facing a possible mental health epidemic.” The global health crisis that unfolded through 2020 and 2021 has only made things worse. To alleviate the...

By Devrupa Rakshit

Picture of Health

Netflix’s ‘One Day at a Time’ Shows There’s No One Right Way to Cope With Mental Health Issues

...Day at a Time address barriers to accessing mental health care for minority communities, it also provides nuanced depictions of mental health and illness. Related on The Swaddle: It’s Time...

By Lorelle Mariel Murzello

How Can We Design Cities to Protect Mental Health?

...physical health. To make matters worse, a low income at their job increases stress and causes insomnia. The worsened mental health and lack of sleep also interfere with work productivity,...

By Saumya Kalia

The Batman‑Joker Universe Offers a Crucial Platform to Talk About Mental Health

...note about mental illness, or when a mental health professional asks him if he “needs someone to talk to” — as if therapy could fix a neurological condition — the...

By Pallavi Prasad

‘Atrangi Re’ Attempts to Simplify Mental Health, but Ends Up Romanticizing It

...a mental illness — it is literally considered a mental disability. And “weird” is among the most common words used to stigmatize people living with mental health disorders, according to...

By Devrupa Rakshit

at the crossroads!

New Research Looks at Intersection Between Queerness and Ethnicity in Physical, Mental Health

...of over 9,000 17-year-old adolescents using questionnaires on their general health, mental health, and health-related behaviors such as smoking and drinking. Their sample included both white and non-white, queer, and...

By Amlan Sarkar

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