MasterClass: Understanding Mental Illness

Mental illness affects millions of people in India. Most of us have been touched by it — as the person going through it, as a family member, as a friend, as a colleague. And yet the way we talk about it, explain it, and respond to it is often shaped more by fear and assumption than by understanding.

This session is for anyone who wants to change that.

A clear, honest 90-minute conversation about what mental illness actually is — biologically, psychologically, and socially — and what that means for how we see it, talk about it, and support the people living with it. The session will end with a Q&A.

We'll cover why mental illness is so often misunderstood, what science actually tells us about how it develops, why the question "but why did this happen?" is harder to answer than it sounds, and what effective support — for…