page 7 This piece discusses suicide which some people might find disturbing.
TRIGGER WARNING: SUICIDE
HOW CAN WE UNDERSTAND INDIA’S MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEM? ANNA CUTTERIDGE IN CONVERSATION WITH MARIWALA HEALTH INITIATIVE (MHI)
In a 2016 Lancet Global Health study, suicide was found to be the leading cause of deaths among young people in India. In the following year, India enacted the National Mental Healthcare Act, “to provide for mental healthcare and services for persons with mental illness and to protect, promote and fulfil the rights of such persons during delivery of mental healthcare and services.”
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