Reducing the stigma around mental health
By Ramesh Kumaran Paid Media It would be more appropriate to term “social media” as PAID MEDIA because without spending money on them, they are not going to cover any news on mental health. In India, who cares about mental health to use social media to increase awareness about mental Continue Reading
By RAMESH KUMARAN I have observed that social media in India gives a very distorted image about psychiatry patients. In our films they are shown as comic characters or as criminals for the audience to jeer at them. And that is exactly what they do in public life,after coming under Continue Reading
Mental health stigma in India is the bane of our democracy. Due to job loss, ostracism, accusations of being a nuisance, stigma becomes internalized.
Let one dog die on the roadside and you have the entire country howling about it. Dogs have their human rights but we don’t.