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India Is Facing A Mental Health Crisis – And Its Education System Is Ill Equipped To Handle It

The taboo surrounding mental health problems and the unwillingness of most colleges to take up the cost of professional counselling make India’s youth highly vulnerab...

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Sushant Dash: "We Speak About Issues That Plague The Nation"

Tata tea has once again launched an ad campaign under the 'Alarm Bajne se Pehle Jaago Re' thought umbrella. The new film '#ItsOk' demonstrates how simple gestures can go a ...

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World Health Day 2017: Experts Explain The Early Signs Of Depression And The Importance Of Therapy [Interview]

India Today Education got into conversation with Dr Udaya Kumar Maiya, Medical Director of Portea Medical and Dr Shyam Bhatt, Trustee of The Live Love Laugh Foundation for ...

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Depression And Mental Health: How India Can Stop These Silent Deaths

Health has been defined by the World Health Organisation (WHO) as the "state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or inf...

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Anushka Sharma Creates Awareness About Mental Health After College Student Commits Suicide

Mumbai is a city that never sleeps! For many, life begins and ends here...But in this fast paced life, we often forget to nurture ourselves, which leads to depression for m...

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24-Year-Old's Suicide Is A Warning That The Mental Healthcare Bill Needs To Expand Its Scope

The provision that decriminalises suicide in the Mental Health Bill is welcome, however, the absence of a complementary provision requiring educational institutions and emp...

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The Ambitious Mental Healthcare Bill Is A Step Closer To A Progressive India

Breaking away from ‘institutionalised care’, India on March 27, 2017 took a progressive step towards implementing a rights-based approach to safeguarding and pr...

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Depression Single Largest Contributor To Global Disability, Says WHO

Over 300 million people (4.3 per cent) of the global population were living with depression in 2015, a new World Health Organization (WHO) study says. This is an 18 per cen...

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Public Health: Increased Prescriptions Sign Of Awareness?

Depression, though widespread in India, is rarely accorded priority in the public health system, which is burdened with cases of TB and dengue as well as non-communicable d...

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Report On Mental Health In Vidarbha: ‘Six-Fold Rise In Proportion Of People Seeking Depression Care’

There has been a six-fold rise in the proportion of people who sought treatment for depression across 30 villages in Amravati district of Vidarbha, which has been at the ep...

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