Health Collective building platforms to address mental health, illness

Globally, reports say one in every four people is likely to face a mental health challenge at some point in their lifetime

Sneha Bhattacharjee
Last Updated at May 18, 2019 20:11 IST

Amrita Tripathi (seventh from left), founder of the Health Collective, says the organisation is a safe space for conversations, trusted information and resources on mental health in India

Amrita Tripathi was a journalist for 15 years before she founded the Health Collective — a safe space for conversations, trusted information and resources on mental health in India. The organisation represented who she was, as well as what she thought the mental health arena needed: Dialogues in a safe space around problems such as depression via accessible, conversational reporting, and story-telling. “Today we have about 200 stories on the site — a mix of original reporting, expert columns and very powerful first person stories on living with conditions like depression, anxiety, schizophrenia and more,” Tripathi says. The site also has comic strips including one by Solo — an artist who has borderline personality disorder and uses illustrations to communicate what it’s like on the other side.

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