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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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Parliament Passes Bill That Decriminalises Suicide Attempt By Mentally ill People

Parliament today passed a bill that seeks to decriminalise suicide attempt by mentally ill people and provides for the right to better healthcare for people suffering from....

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Neighbors Treating Neighbors For Depression And Alcoholism

It's a problem around the world: People who need mental health care don't get it. A new kind of treatment strategy in India — delivered by nonprofessionals — of...

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19 Movies That Actually, For Once, Understood Mental Disorders

Mental disorders are still taboo, and whatever limited conversation revolves around them has resulted in incorrect, dramatized understanding of them. Even now, there is har...

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Rajya Sabha Clears Disabilities Bill, 2014: Here Are The Key Highlights

The Right of Persons with Disabilities Bill, 2014 is likely to make a larger number of people eligible for rights and entitlements by reason of their disability.Rajya Sabha...

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An Illustrator's Brutally Honest And Witty Take On Living With Mental Illness

Ruby Elliot was 14-years-old when she was diagnosed with anorexia. Then came the depression, bulimia and bi-polar.
She loved drawing as a young child – emulatin...

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Shawn Coss Illustrates The Anguish Of Mental Illness Beautifully For #Inktober

Every October, the artists of the world come together to fill the internet with art and inspiration. This began in 2009 when one artist, Jake Parker decided to challenge hi...

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Health

India Needs To Talk About Mental Illness

At least 13.7 per cent of India’s general population has various mental disorders; 10.6 per cent of them require immedi...

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World Mental Health Week: Celebrity Advocates Of Mental Illness

Depression is a serious mental health condition which impacts a person both physically and mentally, and requires treatment. But there are a lot of stigmas attached to it. ...

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Kaleidoscope - Of Human Bondage

In India, where a large section of the population is vegetarian, the hullabaloo over a women refusing to eat meat would seem excessive, but in, South Korean writer Han Kang...

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