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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 ArticlesStudent 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.
Mental health is the victim in the long battle to prove Indian citizenship
A majority of people in Assam who were excluded from National Register of Citizens suffer mental torture, trauma, and humiliation. At least 60 people died due to the stress caused by the process in Assam. Many among them took their own lives. Every night, 68-year-old Maleka Begum dreams she is crawling through mud drenched by rain. She slips again and again and starts to disappear if she stops crawling. She wakes up startled, with a racing heart, soaked in sweat and tears in her eyes.
Guwahati’s old-age homes offer hope to destitute seniors with psychosocial disorders
Assam has one of the highest numbers of destitute women in all of the northeastern region. Some of them are on the streets because of their mental health issues. Others have developed psychological issues because of their homelessness. But there’s hope. At dawn, 85-year-old Usha Rani Ghosh wheels her way through the sprawling courtyard of Sonapur Government Old Age Home, on the outskirts of Guwahati.
From Ganja to Chitta, more and more users in Himachal move towards synthetic drugs
Despite efforts by the administration, one in three youth in Himachal Pradesh consume synthetic like chitta, which has driven neighbouring Punjab’s youth to the edge. Shanti, the mother of a 24-year-old man who has been abusing heroin, sits amidst photographs of her son during his school years. In several of them, he is smiling as he is receiving awards and distinctions for being good at studies.
Are you tired of watching TV debates? I am tired of participating in them.
I would come home from a studio at eleven in the night and ride my bike slowly, because my hands were still shaking and I did not want my family to see that. After reaching home, I would scroll through the abuse on my phone and feel my chest tighten. This was the slow work of being ground down by people who did not want to win the argument;instead, they wanted to make sure the argument cost me something every time.
Not being able to eat traditional foods robs migrants’ connections to their land and emotional grounding
When migrants feel the pressure to hide or abandon their traditional foods, they may also begin distancing themselves from an important part of who they are. Adivasi migrants from Orissa say they are forced to hide their foods from their coworkers. Every day by lunchtime, 32-year-old Hari Gurteli, would have spent five hours under the scorching sun, loading bricks, carrying tools, and assisting a JCB operator at a construction site in Bachupally area, on the outskirts of Hyderabad.
More and more women are taking charge of their lives to ward off the anticipatory anxiety dowry demands create
For many young women, the constant chatter about how much their wedding might cost can lead to anticipatory anxiety. Rejection linked to dowry can feel less like a failed relationship and more like a rejection of one’s worth as a human being. Twenty-four-year-old Aanchal Vishwakarma, a social media executive from Hardoi in Uttar Pradesh, is not considering getting married anytime soon but is worried about what financial pressures her parents might come under when she eventually decides to.
Ninety-eight percent students in Kerala have access to mobile phones. With fears of widespread screen addiction, there’s no institutional fix in sight.
As screen time increased, withdrawal from society, rule breaking, and aggressive behaviour were noted among children. There is little impact of socio-personal factors such as gender, area of residence, family background, and academic performance on screen time addiction. Fifteen-year-old Elizer Jacob Koshy used to be fascinated by birds, wanted to read every book about them, and would quiz anyone he met about the wonders of the animal kingdom. The COVID-19 pandemic changed everything.
Story of a Delhi village that was always there, but never was
In Delhi’s Aali village, 300 houses were sealed and marked for demolition. In areas facing routine demolition drives, the “assailant” isn’t a person, but an unpredictable administrative process which causes extreme relentless stress to the residents. For about six months now, 60-year-old Nasreen has been living outside her house in South-East Delhi’s Aali village, located in the floodplain region of the Yamuna.
Meet captive elephants in India that suffer from chronic levels of ‘zoochosis’, but are on their way to recovery
Around 400 captive elephants in India suffer from chronic stress, abnormal behaviours, and very poor mental health due to lack of natural habitat. About 50 kilometres northwest of Agra lie vast green meadows peppered with mounds of sand and a man-made lake. Maya, a 35-year-old blind elephant rescued in 2010 has made this her home now. She lives with Emma and Phoolkali, elephants rescued from the streets of cities in Uttar Pradesh.