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Questioning The 'Real' Boundaries Of Care, Memory, And Identity: A Photo Essay

Mental Health

Questioning The 'Real' Boundaries Of Care, Memory, And Identity: A Photo Essay

Oscillation is an attempt to weave an intergenerational dialogue about care, memory, and the shaping of identity.

BY Vidushi Gupta

How To Bridge India’s Mental Health Gap: An Interview With NIMHANS's Director Pratima Murthy

BY Avantika Mehta
Beyond The Noise: The Silent Crisis Of Mental Health In India

BY Abhijay Vaish
Art As Antidote: How Creativity Can Enhance Mental Health Recovery

BY Kamala Easwaran
To Understand And Be Understood: India Has A Dementia Emergency

BY Sridhar Vaitheeswaran

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Life, Together | A Chronicle Of My Mother's Caregiving Journey

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The Boy Who Was Never There: An Outlook Reader Recounts Childhood Memory of Mental Illness

Everyone believed the boy's tale. After all, the things he spoke about did happen in the world...

BY Deepika Singh

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Watch | Uma Devi's Path: From Patient To Café Worker at The Banyan

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Watch | Mariyam Swamy Finds Family And Purpose At The Banyan

Dr Lakshmi Narasimhan At Banyan

Watch | Dr Lakshmi Narasimhan on Mental Health Care Beyond Treatment

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Watch | Porselvi's Journey: From Unexpected Crisis to Independence Through Work

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Watch | The Banyan's Dr Archana Padmakar: 14 Years Transforming Mental Health Care

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Watch | Bhagya Lakshmi and Jenifer: A Friendship Forged Through Shared Struggle

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Watch | Sudhir Dhawale Spoke With Outlook About Mental Health Crisis in Indian Prisons

Ira Khan Talks About Agatsu Foundation

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UP's Mental Health Crisis: Rural Poor Are Slipping Through The Cracks

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Premavathi Finds Hope After Homelessness at The Banyan

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Caste’s Mental Health Toll On Dom Workers At Varanasi Ghats

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Saraswathi Premkumar: From Mental Health Stigma to Hope at Banyan

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Shahnaz: A Mother's Fight Against Mental Health, Trauma And Memory Loss

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Srividya’s Mental Health Journey: Surviving Abuse, Finding Purpose in Healing

| Photo: Soumya Sankar Bose : One among the case studies in the diary is Srimoyee—a woman who died in a hotel room in Puri, India.

Is The Global Mental Health Crisis Also An Existential One?

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Sonal’s Journey: Mental Health, Hope And Home Again

Mohammad Ibrahim works as an assistant cinematographer in Indian films.

From Ajmer Streets to Film Sets: A Cinematographer's Journey

| Photo courtesy: Mohammad Ibrahim : My sketchbook with a little history

From Ajmer’s Streets To Silver Screen: A Cinematographer Finds His Frame

Sunil talks about his life and struggles with mental illness.

Mental Health Battle: Engineer's Journey From Homelessness To Reinventing His Life

| Photo: Yasir Iqbal

'I Would Get Nervous And Suffocate': How Saira Grappled With Isolation, Anxiety And Grief

| Photo: Suresh K Pandey/Outlook : Shalok Chaudhary lights funeral pyres for 30-100 bodies a day

Dignity Under Fire: The Dom Workers Of Varanasi

"Every Day I Pray for Love": Finding Freedom From Mental Illness Stigma | Chinki Sinha, Vandana Gopikumar

"Every Day I Pray for Love": Finding Freedom From Mental Illness Stigma | Chinki Sinha, Vandana Gopikumar

Photo: Tribhuvan Tiwari/Outlook

Inside Ranchi’s Psychiatric Hospital: Daily Life Beyond the Wards

Amrit Bakshy, Schizophrenia Awareness Association President, on Understanding Mental Illness and His Daughter Richa

Amrit Bakshy, Schizophrenia Awareness Association President, on Understanding Mental Illness and His Daughter Richa

'Everyday I Pray For Love': Note From Outlook Editor Chinki Sinha

'Everyday I Pray For Love': Note From Outlook Editor Chinki Sinha

Why Is There An Elephant On Outlook's Independence Day Cover? | Freedom From Stigma

Why Is There An Elephant On Outlook's Independence Day Cover? | Freedom From Stigma

Yasir Iqbal : Rafeeqa lives with her only son who was just a year old when her husband went missing. Her husband was a labourer and had gone out for work and never return. Rafeeq never remarried, she raised her son on her own. | Yasir Iqbal

Invisible Scar: Kashmir’s Battle with Mental Health and the Missing

Stigma Around Mental Illness | Freedom From Shame | Share Your Story With Outlook

Stigma Around Mental Illness | Freedom From Shame | Share Your Story With Outlook

Love, Loss And Mental Illness | Freedom From Stigma

Love, Loss And Mental Illness | Freedom From Stigma

Mental Illness And Freedom | Editor Chinki Sinha In Conversation With Vandana Gopikumar Of The Banyan

Mental Illness And Freedom | Editor Chinki Sinha In Conversation With Vandana Gopikumar Of The Banyan

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Artist Unknown—by Mithu Sen : Artist Unknown—by Mithu Sen—is a tribute to all the artists who remain unknown from the margins of intellectuals, market, and ownership networks. Many artists are unable to thrive under the demanding pressures of the Contemporary Art world. Forever struggling to create an identity, in the process, they remain caught in the complicated web of the urban lifestyle countering the forces in power.

Why Awareness Of Mental Health Disorders Will Never Be Enough Without Improved Care Services

BY Anirudh Kala

Illustration: Saahil : Is there no freedom and justice for the prisoners?

Taloja Jail: Lives Fading in Silence Behind Iron Walls

BY Sudhir Dhawale

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: A mentally ill man and his wife

Dealing with Wandering Mentally Ill People Is A Mountain-sized Crisis In Himachal

BY Ashwini Sharma

Shutter stock : Nuance is essential. Not all mental health support needs to come from clinical psychologists or psychiatrists.

Can Online Therapy Substitute Human Psychologists And Help People Heal?

BY Sushmita Barik

Special arrangement : Rahiyanath, , a 45-year-old woman from Kottappuram, Malappuram, in Kerala.

Meet Rahiyanath: The Woman Who Changed How An Entire Village Sees Mental Illness

BY N.K. Bhoopesh

| Photo: Tribhuvan Tiwari : Lighter Moments: Inmates playing a game of Ludo at the Ranchi Institute of Neuro-Psychiatry and Allied Sciences in Kanke

Inside A Mental Health Facility Near Ranchi: Forgotten Women Cry For Home

BY Md Asghar Khan

Tribhuban Tiwari : Ranchi Institute of Neuro-Psychiatry & Allied Sciences

Mental Health In India: Why Policy Reform Must Focus On Empathy

BY Nachiket Mor

Artwork: Emma Haddow : ‘Tiger, Shark and Me Sit Down for Tea’

How Mental Health Disorders Are Used To Silence And Browbeat Women

BY Vineetha Mokkil

Artwork by Vikas Thakur

There Is a Suicide Crisis Amongst India's Youth And Elderly

BY Soumitra Pathare

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