As an Indian woman, I have witnessed the pervasive silence and stigma surrounding mental health in our society all my life.
Only those with support, awareness and care survive, survive better and seek help; self-help is always the first step. But in a society like ours with so much stigma about mental illness and mental health, in a society that conditions us to hush up matters and never speak openly about our issues, people live suffering silently in depression for years.