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Launched on 10th October 2025, World Mental Health Day, Mentality aims to shape the discourse on mental health issues in India by investigating their root causes and questioning systems that perpetuate the crises.
There is a particular techno-economic system we exist in, which is making us more lonely, isolated and weak. If we consider it journalism’s duty to document history as it unfolds, then that is what Mentality intends to do in the sphere of mental health.
Our stories might be about individuals, but we always place them in context so that we can hold the powerful accountable.
Mental health is usually perceived to be a privileged people’s problem. Nothing can be further from the truth as poverty and inequality, in fact, negatively impact mental health. Coverage of mental health in media has an enormous impact on public perception, stigma, and policy decisions. Source
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| Scope | National |
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| Language | English |
| Country | India |
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Search ArticlesHow lack of trauma-informed filmmaking hurts living survivors of state violence
A teaser of Ajay Devgn’s new film, Chauhaan, refers to pellet gun wounds as “limited damage” retraumatising its victims in Kashmir, Manipur, and Delhi. Kashmiris say they are living with the dire consequences of pellet gun use long after everyone else has moved on. This time, a teaser of Chauhaan, set to release in October 2027, has reopened wounds that had hardly healed among many Kashmiris.
Assam’s flood waters reached areas never flooded before, leaving its people high and dry
The impacts of experiencing flooding for the first time can last generations. Residents of some districts of Upper Assam speak about the shock and the trauma that followed the floods in July. On 19 July 2026, at around 5:30 PM, as was her routine, Sikha Moni Bora was making tea in her house made from bamboo in Hujaikan village around 20 kilometers from Teok town in Jorhat, Assam. At first, she felt some water on her feet.
For forced Manipuri migrants in Delhi, trauma has become invisible and privatised
Working in Delhi alongside people from the “other” community meant learning to separate their everyday working relationships from the conflict they had left behind. Many said they were carrying memories of violence, displacement, and loss. Twenty-four-year-old Thangjam Ningol Devi moved quickly between tables, carrying plates of chow mein and fried rice in a small cafe, wedged between a grocery store and a mobile repair shop in New Delhi’s Munirka.
Gujjar-Bakarwal gave up their nomadic lifestyle; evicting them from their homes causes fresh intergenerational trauma
We spent a day with the residents of Sidra Bandhi, a Gujjar and Bakerwal settlement outside Jammu, which was allegedly demolished without prior notice. Repeated evictions keep the younger generation on edge and cause long term trauma. In mid-May this year, just before sunrise, bulldozers, police vehicles, and teams of officials entered Sidra Bandhi, on the outskirts of Jammu, and brought down 28 houses of Gujjar-Bakarwal families, claiming they were encroaching forest land.
Women prisoners with psychosocial and cognitive struggles face severe challenges even after their release. We can do something about it.
The image of a police officer as fearless and emotionally strong is deeply ingrained. That leaves very little space to acknowledge vulnerability, even when someone is struggling. Mental health support should become a part of the policing system itself, just like training, welfare, and discipline. In 2019, KT, a woman in her mid-thirties was taken into custody in a case of kidnapping a child from a railway station in Mumbai. She was a patient of schizophrenia.
“We know therapy, but you know your life”
Mentality’s editor Raksha Kumar and content creator Harshit Pandey discussed the unique challenges of addressing men’s mental well-being on the occasion of Men’s Mental Health Awareness Month. Harshit Pandey is a comedy and fashion influencer who is a part of CEQUIN’s ‘Mardon Wali Baat’ campaign. The campaign aims to sensitise men, especially young boys, about gender stereotypes and equality across all genders.
“We know therapy, but you know your life”
Mentality’s editor Raksha Kumar and mental health practitioner Utkarsha Jagga dive into how queerness informs therapeutic care and practice, the limited queer-affirmative mental health training in India, and how increasingly oppressive policies risk queer people’s basic safety and access. Utkarsha Jagga is a counselling psychologist and the founder of Delhi-based The Coping Central.
Odisha’s police force is plagued by mental health issues, harming themselves and the public
The image of a police officer as fearless and emotionally strong is deeply ingrained. That leaves very little space to acknowledge vulnerability, even when someone is struggling. Mental health support should become a part of the policing system itself, just like training, welfare, and discipline. In June 2025, 32-year-old Odisha police constable Subrat Kumar Sahoo of Odisha’s Keonjhar district was in Kolkata for a special training programme when he was found hanging in a rented apartment.
Madhya Pradesh experienced the highest number of extreme weather events. Its children are the most affected.
Climate change is no longer only shaping the world children will inherit. It is reshaping the childhood they are living today. For them, the clearest signs of climate change are not the floods or the wildfires they watch on television. They are far more routine: a football practice cut short by sudden rain, a sleepless night after relentless heat, a classroom entered in exhaustion, and a school calendar that quietly bends to the weather.
Student protests were cathartic to a generation that is buried under the weight of anxiety, stress, and uncertainty
The protests were a collective psychological response to prolonged uncertainty, repeated disruptions, betrayal, loss of trust, and chronic stress among young people. Seventeen-year-old girls, Ishrat and Musharrat, who only gave their first names, travelled from Panchgaon in Haryana to Delhi’s Jantar Mantar on 24 July 2026. “I just told my parents that I cannot take this anymore and decided to just hop on the train [to Delhi],” said Ishrat.