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Every winter, migrant workers in India’s capital are victims of a polycrisis, ensuring mental health is a luxury they cannot afford
As Delhi’s air quality dips, a temporary ban on construction work affects migrant construction workers, living in precarious housing, without healthcare benefits and under extreme stress. But they have no avenues to address their mental health.
Women in Kolkata feel more fearful after the RG Kar rape case, here’s what they did about it
Kolkata went from being perceived as one of the safest Indian cities to one of the most unsafe after a high-profile rape case in August 2024. Women who felt their streets were unsafe did something they said was like group therapy.
Impacts of high-rise buildings on children’s mental health and the desperate need for ‘neurourbanism’
As cities grow vertically, more and more children are growing up with fewer spaces to play outdoors. Lack of group play severely impacts their social skills, increasing their screen time.
The colossal weight of Kashmir’s mental health crises rests on a few professionals
While the shortage of mental health professionals is severe across the country, Kashmir is disproportionately affected given its exposure to prolonged conflict, a weak economy, and very high unemployment rates. Professionals struggle to carry the burden.
Guwahati’s unplanned expansion causes annual floods and fills its inhabitants with “anticipatory anxiety”
When cities grow into spaces reserved for rivers and lakes, floods are an obvious outcome. This means a lot of people spend time anticipating the next torrential rainfall or flooding and always planning for the worst. What is needed: the mental-health equivalent of first aid.
‘How do you know you are gay?’ and other questions queer individuals regularly encounter when they seek therapy
Lack of queer-affirming training, fewer queer counsellors, and unequal legal rights keep LGBTQ+ communities from seeking crucial mental health care.
When being a ‘Kashmiri’ is forced to override all other identities, a community feels targeted
Hundreds of Kashmiri youth complained of immense stress, uncertainty over their studies or career after they were harassed and forced to leave their universities and workplaces from different cities of northern India after the Red Fort Blast.
Victims of man-made disasters: flood-affected in the Himalayas struggle to make sense of annual floods, cloud busts and landlines
Due to over-construction in the Himalayas, the frequency of floods, cloudbursts, and landslides have become an annual occurrence. While the victims battle uncertainty, anxiety, and post-traumatic stress, lack of questions on mental health care allows for authorities’ inaction.