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NIMHANS-Led National Mental Health Survey 2 Of India: Mapping Mental Wellbeing

The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has mandated the National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences (NIMHANS), Bengaluru, to conduct the National Mental Health Survey 2025-2026. NIMHANS  is a world-renowned institute in the realm of mental health and neuroscience.

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When Nothing Feels Good: Understanding Anhedonia in Mood Disorders

Approximately 70% of individuals diagnosed with Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) experience anhedonia, the progressive, pervasive loss of the capacity for pleasure, motivation, and connection that researchers now recognise as one of the most clinically significant and most persistently undertreated features

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The Changing Landscape of Mental Health Policy in India: A Comprehensive Analysis

Why Mental Health in India Matters Now More Than Ever? India is the largest democracy, yet for decades, mental health has been silenced. With a population of over 1.3 billion, the mental health and well-being of citizens are essential building

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IIT Roorkee: First Campus-Wide Mental Health Policy  

In a society where psychological struggles are often overlooked by academic and financial success, IIT Roorkee has shifted the focus from achieving maximum placement rates to improving the lifestyle of students. The drafting of the first and comprehensive Mental Health

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Ecopsychological Interventions in Mental Health Care: How Nature Heals the Mind

Do you know that feeling of being totally overwhelmed, overstressed and like you are physically confined to your familiar surroundings or room, only to suddenly think “I need to step outside for some fresh air”? It’s a pretty common phrase

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Why Today’s Fast-Paced World Is Mentally Exhausting: A Psychological Analysis

The modern world has been defined as a fast-paced world that is connected and full of opportunities. However, beneath the fast-paced world that is connected and full of opportunities, there is a new challenge for human psychology of overstimulation. The

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Why Netflix and Duolingo Family Plans are Mental Health Boosters

Netflix movies are a good stress reliever to watch, and a Duolingo family plan is effective in enhancing your brain capacity and instilling confidence in you because of the regular performance of exercises for acquiring the language. Studies released at

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Artificial Intelligence in Mental Health: Challenges in the Indian Context

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has emerged as one of the most promising technological aids. It refers to the field of computer science and technology that is expected to perform tasks that normally require human intelligence.[1] AI has several components, including supervised

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The Emotional and Ethical Costs of Commercialising Mental Health

For decades, mental health was a “hush-hush” topic, hidden away in backrooms. After COVID-19, mental health struggles finally came out into the open. It wasn’t a secret anymore; people actually started talking about it seriously, which created a perfect environment

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Mental Health Policies: Hidden Administrative Barriers Affecting Patient Care Quality

Mental health policies exist across nearly every healthcare system, yet access to care remains far more limited than those policies suggest. In 2021 alone, one-third of people living with mental illness and nearly half of those with serious conditions were