A challenge in more ways than one, the field of Psychiatry is a veritable fight on a daily basis. Both, for the patients affected and the doctors affecting a solution.
What makes the on-going struggle especially difficult is the challenge on two fronts. The problems, symptoms and its outcome, a result of the ailment on one side and the associated social stigma and resultant response from society on the other. With, very often the second actually proving more perilous than the disease itself.
Given the “perceived threat” that society assumes it faces, its various responses to people suffering including their near and dear ones, more often than not tend to undo the progress a sufferer makes. At times making conditions, worse bordering on dangerous, than they were. Hard for the patient, it’s equally disheartening for the doctors, battling to make a difference.
Now with all these worrisome situations in mind, a major part of Sahayta’s core mission is to battle not only the various ailments but also de-stigmatize mental illness. Striving for that day when the entire society accepts, treats & prioritizes mental health disorders like any other and everyone can talk about his or her mental health openly, without fear of judgment.
To enable this and the pioneering concept of making available multi-disciplinary Mental Health Professionals under one roof see fruition, 4 visionaries—frontrunners in their noble profession brought their heads together, turning Sahayta into reality.
