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During the Mental Health Awareness Week, The Quint is committed to talking about common misconceptions around mental illness and to bringing out the fact that depression, OCD, anxiety along with about 200 other forms of mental illness, are treatable.
But first comes acceptance and de-stigmatisation. If you missed our live chat about mental health, mental illness and the stigma that surrounds these issues, watch it here. We had an interesting panel comprising of Vasuda Arora (change facilitator and therapist), Shilpa Aggarwal (Head of Psychiatry at mPower), Rachna Iyer & Rohan Sabharwal (founders of Crayon Impact, a creative forum addressing mental health) and Varun Gwalani (a slam poet, author and someone dealing with OCD)
The key learnings of this discussion are:
You can reach out to our panelists here:
Rachna Krishna Iyer (Co Founder Crayon Impact) - rachnakrishna.iyer@gmail.com
Vasuda Arora (Change facilitator and therapist) - everythingyoucanbe@gmail.com (9920397166)
Rohan Sabharwal (Co-founder of Crayon Impact, dealing with Bipolar Disorder)- rohansabharwal@gmail.com
Shilpa Aggarwal (Head of Psychiatry at mPower)- shilpa.aggarwal@mpowerminds.com
Varun Gwalani (slam poet, author, dealing OCD) - gwalanivarun@gmail.com
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Published: 08 Oct 2016,03:11 PM IST