Originally posted by: prerna4rishav
This is quite strange. What’s so offending about being a ‘mental patient’ ? Everyone and their dogs are aware that he was a serious patient of depression and was under medication !
Gosh, this stigma against mental health awareness just rages me like anything. It’s time for India to GROW UP ! And yes, I call it India because that’s my country where it’s seen as a stigma in 90% of the places. Lack of awareness you call it.
If only saying that someone has mental health issues......was not considered making fun of them....a lot of people who lost their lives to depression and mental health issues would still be here.....This is exactly why people don't like to go see a psychiatrist because they think that it will be made fun of.....sad state of affairs...
This is why I absolutely love it when celebrities like Deepika and Anushka come out and talk about depression and how they dealt with it.....it just normalizes it....that having mental health poblems is not akin to being mad or pagalpan.....Just like we need a doctor when our body gets sick....we need a doctor when our mind is sick.....
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