Institute of Human Behaviour and Allied Sciences

Coronavirus crisis : Anxiety, depression are ‘normal reactions by people in abnormal situation’

Talking to The Statesman, Dr Mohit Sharma, Senior Resident and Locum Consultant from Institute of Human Behaviour and Allied Sciences (IHBAS), Delhi said, 'Not just Coronavirus, to top it all, joblessness, lack of social security, flooding of “infodemic” of misinformation as called by UN chief Antonio Guterres are its main causes.'

# India

‘New mental health law a game changer’

This evolving movement in the early part of the 21st century within the country, mandated by the larger global movement of the drafting of a United Nations Convention of Rights of Persons with Disability (UNCRPD), where the right-based implementation of treatment divisions for Persons with Mental Illnesses (PMIs) seemed to be involved, resulted in the change.