In India, mental healthcare is highly inaccessible to almost 70% of the population economically. That, combined with the focus of modern psychiatry on Western culture and pills leaves Indian people significantly underserved as their unique cultural contexts and existing systems of oppression go unaddressed. Here is how we can reimagine a model of mental health accessible to all.
In this personal narrative, the author explores the beneficial effects of undergoing gender sensitivity training in her daily practice of medicine and her role as a teacher, shaping the minds of medical students.