More openness in people seeking help for Mental Health

Awareness about mental health challenges has definitely gone up in the recent years.

It is true, as a human being, we are facing so many global level crises as we speak. Be it the pandemic, or the on going conflicts and wars, impact of the climate change phenomenon, economic challenges and so on. It makes many of us feel small, insignificant, helpless and leaves with hopelessness, frustration and anger.

There is relentless focus on the negative when it comes to the news channels or other social media and it is practically difficult to keep oneself away from all of that, day in and day out. And it does have an impact on the level of emotional wellness.

Growing awareness of mental health challenges, availability of counselling and therapy services online, the stigma around seeking help fairly gone down, all these factors have definitely enabled many more people to seek and access therapy and counselling services.

Inner Dawn Counsellor Kala Balasubramanian’s views featured in Deccan Herald on 8-Nov-23.
https://www.deccanherald.com/india/karnataka/bengaluru/mental-health-experts-report-uptick-in-cases-2761052