82% of Gen Z won’t compromise their mental health, even for a bigger paycheck
Mental health coverage, genuine flexibility, purpose-driven roles, and psychological safety are not perks. For Gen Z, they are the minimum bar for staying.
Mental health coverage, genuine flexibility, purpose-driven roles, and psychological safety are not perks. For Gen Z, they are the minimum bar for staying.
The Patna High Court did not hold back, forcing a recovered person to stay in a psychiatric ward, it said, is a human rights violation. Even a single extra day crosses the line.
The Ministry of Public Health has reported that two million (20 lakh) people visited healthcare centres for treatment of mental health disorders, including anxiety last year.
Dr Archana Singh, a former Art therapist, has penned a book, 'The Healing Brush-True Stories from the Edge of Life', which highlights the importance of art therapy.
The Union Budget 2026-2027 announced the setting up of a second National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences (NIMHANS-2) in northern India.
“Policies on age-based access limits may be considered, as younger users are more vulnerable to compulsive use and harmful content,” the report said.
The World Health Organization (WHO) (1950) defines “Mental Health” as a “state of mental well-being that enables people to cope with the stresses of life, realize their abilities, learn, work well and contribute to their community”.
For decades, mental health in India remained trapped in silence ~ confined to overburdened psychiatric hospitals, misunderstood by the public, and overshadowed by deep-rooted stigma. But across the country a quiet revolution is underway.
For an extremely culturally diverse country like India with so many different languages, customs, taboos pervading its citizens, one common factor that remains consistent in the literature of the different bhasha languages is the miserable plight of women in general surviving often as a subaltern within a primarily patriarchal mental make-up of society.
Mental health was once taboo. In many homes, it still can be. But today, scroll past the feed of any Gen Z netizen and you will see it: Therapy memes. Self-care rituals. A whole Instagram carousel on burnout.
