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Mental health awareness must start from schools, says experts

By IANS | Updated: November 20, 2022 13:15 IST

Mumbai, Nov 20 Against the backdrop of the brutal killing of a Palghar woman Shraddha Walkar by her ...

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Mumbai, Nov 20 Against the backdrop of the brutal killing of a Palghar woman Shraddha Walkar by her live-in partner in Delhi and chopping her body into multiple pieces, a prominent Mumbai psychiatrist has urged the government to start mental health courses and awareness among children right from the school level.

"To begin with, there can be a chapter in the Science subjects on mental illnesses, their types, how it can be dealt with, etc… It will remove the stigma associated with mental illness in India. Here, such patients are simply ridiculed as ‘paagal'

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