Have you ever wondered what mental health means? Or struggled with overwhelming feelings and emotions, not knowing whom to talk to or seek help from? Or faced a mental health challenge and looked for more people to connect to or speak to about your experience? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then this discussions series by It’s OK To Talk and Sangath is the space for you. To be held every month, the ‘In My Own Words’ discussion series focussed on increasing awareness about youth mental health and features young people talking about mental health, illness and wellbeing.
The first of the series entitled “YOU ARE NOT ALONE” is being held on 28th June, 2018 at 5 PM at Sangath, New Delhi, and will feature youth mental health advocate, Sanchana Krishnan in conversation with psychologist, Dr. Eleanor Hodgson.
If you have faced a mental health challenge or are struggling, or are searching for ways to improve your mental health and wellbeing — then RSVP here. More details below. This event is free and is welcome to everyone.
****
Sanchana is an English Honours graduate with psychology and media as minors. A lifelong writer and supremely voracious reader, she believes in the power of words to affect change. As the curator of Living Stories, she is working actively towards mental health in India by disseminating the right kind of knowledge and dispelling myths and taboos.
Eleanor is a clinical psychologist from the UK and works with Sangath. She specialises in mental health difficulties which arise from abuse and trauma; particularly those experienced by women and by refugees. She is passionate about collaborating with communities to design and develop effective resources and services to support good mental health.
About It’s Ok to Talk
It’s Ok To Talk is an adolescent and youth focused program that aims to increase awareness about mental health and wellbeing so that more young people are able to engage in a dialogue on mental health, and seek and get help. We work through partnerships with individuals and organisations that bring complementary expertise on community engagement, arts and social media in particular to organize public events, workshops and social media campaigns.