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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.