Mental Healthcare – Sham or Service?

While am really glad that mental health awareness is picking up, and there are so many individuals, educational institutes and ventures, who seem to identify it as a viable market and use the mental health tag, to expand themselves and their businesses.

In the developed countries, this health care system is under so many levels of quality control and scrutiny. However,In India due to poor license practices and nil governing bodies to address and ensure quality services in the mental health sector, there is a rise of “centers” and independent practitioners who are barely trained in providing quality services.

Also since people are unaware of their rights and on how to identify quality, the time required to improve and assess progress (the nature of it), very often they keep running from one center to the next,often ending up more lost and dejected ,and in the end, give up on themselves and this field – often labeling it a sham.

Mental health is a tricky domain and a service domain at that, and not something that’s too be considered lightly and tampered with for selfish reasons.

I would request for people who plan to venture out into the domain, to understand and empathize with consumers as humans who are vulnerable and reaching out for help, rather look upon them as a business opportunity.

I would request laymen and consumers to be more informed of quality care and seek out quality than get carried away by false untoward promises, that have no grounding in research/reality. -For starters- just because someone has a degree in psychology, they cannot offer therapy! for more info-

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Therapy? No way! I would rather prefer a chat with a good friend.

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