The editors of Side Effects of Living, Jhilmil Breckenridge and Namarita Kathait, met at a poetry event in Delhi. They talked to each other about their struggles with mental health and the need to break the silence around it. Talking is therapeutic. But nobody speaks openly of depression or schizophrenia or of being bipolar. The reason is the stigma surrounding mental health. Of course, India also has a shortage of mental health professionals. There are just three psychiatrists for one million people and seven for a population of 10 million.
Breckenridge and Kathait started the Bhor Foundation to. . .