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@@hayatpopal This really makes me mad that this can happen in 2019. How? Why does it continue? Not only the inequality of women but the neglect of the mentally ill? Look at the difference when they have medication.With all the money around the world, why is this and homelessness still vital issues? It sickens me. If I ever became a multimillionaire, I would be broke and happy in a year. Someone needs to remind men how their sorry asses got to even exist. All I can do is Pray
I think it will take the next 3 generation of Indian family to start believing in science before religion. But modernity and progress in diverse field of science has begun in India. Still some of the claims made here in the video can be speculated between different Indian state because some state which are still not great in eduction bend greatly towards religion then even simple medicine. I don't understand the ways of India.
+itsma name Indians are narrow minded when it comes to religion guess everyone is but are ,bounded by family and religious practices , makes it even difficult with different culture being followed by different states.
India's state of Mental health treatment is one of the worst in the world. The major problem lies with ignorance about the issue. No one sees depression as mental disease but rather as a state of mind you can just walk out from. And anything like bipolar disorder or Schizophrenia is treated like madness and untreatable. There is far too much taboo in Indian society regarding mental health and we need to mature up to this issue.
The same applies for the middle east. Actually I think its worst all over Asia. Only in western countries esp the US, UK and Germany that MI service is much better.
Cutie pie yahhhh many countries all over Asia have these close minded thoughts like certain beauty standards and such... basically it’s all about fitting in with the society unfortunately... the elders think more like this tho
It's the whole Pagan culture, how about you get rid of the idea of reincarnation, because of cycle that means that they want people to suffer so they come back with something better in the next life whether it's an elephant eating plastic for 30 years chained up, it gives in the free pass on doing anything morally correct. Get rid of the caste system in this reincarnation bullshit
I don't comprehend the cruelty of this. I would think it would be easy, go to the authorities, write an essay about the issue, write about percentages or knowledge of putting yourself in the same shoes, do a bit of work, and it would get fixed. It's something like that, but not entirely.
Things India need : 1.Old generation to die out. 2.Setting up a eligibility for someone to become a politician .(Like they have tests for IIT's) 3.Government restrictions and sincere punishments for people breaking the laws and not corrupt officer who accept bribes . 4.EDUCATION! (Not engineering or MBBS but on social or moral values .
being an Indian and a doctor this video is very true. outlook magazine did a cover story on this same issue a few months back. Much change in the system and people's perception of mental illnesses is needed but the modi government cut the medical spending when it made the budget so that seems unlikely anytime soon. side note, why are there mostly bigots and racists in the comments??
I’m not even slightly surprised by this. It’s horrendous, however, it’s not even that much further back from western mental health care. I’ve been Inpatient in the U.K. and have had the wrong medication forced on me. I’ve been spat on, hit, pinned down by 5-6 men and much more. I knew a girl who was being forced to have ECT against her will. It’s quite common to see women be stuck on wards for 30 years or so. It’s insane. I would forget where I was and who I was bc of the meds I was on. The whole world needs to start looking at mental illness and treatment differently. This is so awful. My heart bleeds for these women. They need love and safety, not torture.
I think this is terrible how these people are treated. My mum has bipolar and with medication she's fine, if only they had the knowledge of this medicine.
***** yet you replied, plenty of white men always complain about how nasty white women are for not being 100% submissive like asian women are (even though thats false). Its a form of sexism, that YOU asian women NEVER stand up to. You let this sterotype attack western women, so you can shamelessy enjoy your attention from white males.
In the early 1900's- in america the exact same thing happened, a husband could conmit wife for life; a mother who disagreed with her daughters choice of who the daughter wanted to marry, institutionalized for life& in most cases they went in sane but after 40 plus years were nothing but a shell of a person after ECT, lobodomy& anything else hospital felt like doing. We only got pateint rights in 1978 so, maybe some countries are set in our old ways and stayed that way. Our country wants to hide its misdeeds from 100 years ago but ive read alot on the subject& it chills me to the bone. Very scary. Sad. Stolen lives. I pray it gets better in India. Peace
southsyde Sasha problem is that many people are really sick and dangerous but they dont take them to clinics,tjey walk on the street and if they release them they make mistake
@@Noname-ni8qm People make ''mistakes'' all the time, they are not animals🙄 please educate yourself on mental health. We all have mental health issues if i must be completely honest, depression, anxiety, bi polar, ADHD, PTSD etc. We ALL suffer with some form of mental health issues, so really, you could also be admitted on anyone of those guises, and with your logic, it would be justified. Bring in corruption with the law and our families, and its 10X worse. Esp for women.
I started developing anxiety issues since I was 16 and though I begged my family to get me treated they scolded me and told me to “stop thinking the way I was” . I lived with it for 12 years during which many a times I contemplated suicide. I studied hard and got a job but still my anxiety did not let me perform well. Years of untreated anxiety led to depression and then I eventually had the good fortune to come to the west where I got the treatment and where I was able to say to others that I have a mental disorder. Here I am not looked down for having it. India is a hell for people like me.
I believe that in shame-based families or shamed-based countries that the problem of mental health is buried rather than dealt with in an open manner, which is required for stability and healing.
I am going through what you went through. I am only 17, I don't have any kind of legal rights or any kind money too to get help. I have mentioned to my parents a lot of times that I feel suicidal but they just don't care enough. I just want to leave India as soon as possible, if I ever have children, I will not raise in a country like India.
My mam has schizophrenia and i would never abandon her in a mental asylum. Omg i feel sick thinking of it. I managed to get her out of hospital and we both live in a culdesac of bungalows and she just lives opposite me. Shes great on medication and i have given up working to keep an eye on her. Shes 10 times better than she was in hospital. Please people of india DONT abandon people because of mental health they need you. Just think if it happened to you and you got dumped in a dirty hospital that is dangerous. Would you like that ? NO...
Same here my mom is going through scrizophrania ...well it's mainly because she was sexually abused in her childhood but she didn't opened which resulted into mentally I'll
@@opai1821 yes it's triggered because of past trauma. My mam found my baby sister dead and she had a nervous breakdown then lost me and my sister to social services and we went to live with grandparents and she just spiralled and turned into an alcoholic then got sectioned and was sectioned for over 10 years. Now she is back to normality apart from hearing voices and talking back to them and never drank for over 12 years
very good issue you people raised, living in India but never heard about it, our main stream media is busy highlighting just political issues. hats off to you guys, keep touching such issues
I was in a taxi in India and sight seeing … the tax driver pointed at a mental asylum and laughed (like he thought I’d also find it entertaining) He didn’t realise I’m a nurse 😣 I had this gut wrenching feeling they were locked in there and being abused and wasn’t impressed. I love India, Indian culture, food and dress, etc, but I don’t like India’s view of the vulnerable, mentally ill, poor and disabled. Very very sad. These attitudes need to change.
@@GOne-vj6no there are no mental asylums in the US, or in the U.K… I’m not insulting India. I love India. But there is a huge disparity over how India and the US/UK view people with disabilities (particularly people with mental health and psychiatric illnesses)
angelfire1987 i'v been away from youtube for a while. I'v been experimenting and many experiment's, have shown me thing's. You have a female name and you will be attacked aye! and for no other reason. I have seen mental illness and realise that, most of it is inflincted upon those who do not comform{to whatever}. Try my experiment. Raghnall MacPhadhraig.
+Jen Garlinge And this completely retarded society is supposed to be the next economic global superpower? This is just one example of their persisten ridiculous backward superstitions. People are being killed for eating beef for crying out loud. Girls are gang-raped on a daily basis. About a billion Indians dont even know how to use a toilet! Come on...
as an indian, i am astonished at the amount of issues that keep coming up in this country. Issues that have been going on for a long time but are only currently being brought into light. I am truly ashamed.
Here in India going to a psychiatrist means your are crazy🙂..... ofcourse the new generation is changing its views relating to mental health but still it's a long way to go.
I was suffering with insomnia and severe anxiety. I was recommended a psychiatrist. God she wouldn't let me talk! She thought she was helping me and said that it was all in my head and i just have to close my eyes and go to sleep.I blocked her number after a while.
I am a lawyer. When I was working with a divorce lawyer as a Jr, I had a case identical to vidya's. Its really sad. But the lady is doing OK now and lives with her daughter.
India have so much inteligent and clever ppl .. All around the globe, they should make pressure to their government and try to make system better. Also mostly, they are very very good and honest ppl. . . But reason for ppl cruelty against women and humans cant be justified coz we have *icks and we are the men... Im praying for better social time for that poor peole and pray for better system for that old and beutiful culture and all India.
Mentally I'll people are both guys and girls. Teens do suicide due to high Competition to go to the top. Parents expectations and many more I am teen I know that. but really my condition was worse
+Abhineet Soren doesn't be global if u in that condition u must take care of yourself. And u should know that 'teenage' body going to the biggest evolution in our lives. So, my advice is to look in future but carefully and find some sport our any other hobby which is related to physical work. Take care of yourself is your primary and secondary thing. Stay well and sometimes live like it is the last day in ur life.
As a mental health activist in the UK, I have mixed feelings about this. Of course the scenario Neha Shastry describes is shocking, but she doesn't seem to be aware that almost everything she describes is also true in many Western countries, including the UK and America. For example having ECT without consent - I do not know precisely the situation in the U.S. (although I do know it is used very frequently and I would imagine mostly without consent) - in the UK consent or the lack of it can fall into different categories but in practice it is without consent - no-one who really knew what ECT does would agree to it. And she seems to have what seems to me to be a very niave belief in Western science and Western medicine - that there are "mental illnesses" like 'schizophrenia' which are best treated by modern medicine - those of who have witnessed all this up close and personal will tell you that it is really an ideology of control and denial hiding behind a pseudo-science. I watched the earlier scenes at the Sufi shine with interest - it was hard to work out what if people resolved any internal crises there or not - certainly possession with demons is something I have never seen or experienced - but people often need to go crazy to resolve an internal crisis and if given support, which can have a spiritual dimension, do often come through as much stronger people. India is lucky to have only 43 psychiatric hospitals, however - the psychiatric and pharmaceutical companies will see that as a market opportunity and will eager to expand their empires - India is much better having a more open idea of what reality is than the closed Western Mind which many are struggling against. As some background to this, you may be interested in a recent (and very controversial) book published last year, called "Anatomy of an Epidemic" by Robert Whittaker which uses a mountain of evidence to argue that prior to the takeover by psychopharmacology, crises often resolved themselves, but that in fact the drugs cause a major problem and an addiction - they may indeed suppress and initial crisis which needs to happen but the patients never resolve anything and become addicted for life.
So an article about something in India needs to include the UK? Why? They never once claimed ECT did not happen or happened less in any other country. I think you are a bit too focused on your profession. Step back a bit.
Does that make it okay? Also the contrast between indias Health (Mental health system more specifically) and that of the west, is so huge its not even compareable, esp with all the corruption.
I think the main point of this video was to discuss the obvious injustice in how these women are being treated. Schizophrenia is now recognized as a legitimate disease after brain scan studies conducted over the course of several years have shown an increase of black areas on the brain which represent deterioration. It is from this gradual deterioration that those with schizophrenia can’t distinguish their own voices bc their thoughts are jumbled up and so they think they are hearing voices. A goal of medication is to slow down this process or hopefully stop it.
It’s hard dealing with schizophrenia even in my first world country. I’ve had ECT myself and it was very effective with very mild side effects, but it was with my consent and I had full anesthesia. I’m so thankful I didn’t happen to be born in India. I hope the situation improves for these people.
**DO READ THIS** I'm proud that I am born in India, an India that is way more rich than your so called first world country and has world-class medical facilities and hospitals to which people visit from the whole world to benefit from. An as citizen who keeps eye on everything happening in my country, this is the first time I came across such a thing because this happens in rural part of India which is kind of filled with orthodox people that do not listen to anyone because India has 1.4 billion people and is divided in 29 states and those states are like different countries to everyone here because they share different language, culture, mentality, literacy and etc. and is filled with natural wonders that no country has. So, better try not to judge a superior country by watching just a one fucking video.
@@OmMishra12 No need for all that. Because she was only saying her own opinion..... India believe in religons.... God is the Holy Spirit.... Not supersticious & evil. Some one told me once they tie them in chains in other parts too for mental health.... I'm Godly so my mind stays good the way it was made....The people who suppose to help are murderes because they aren't caring at all. God punishes all evil acts. And India is curruption because their histories were too. Religons are a death trap. God is Freedom. God is Life.
True story : one of my distant relatives was shut in a room for days and eventually died in there because he was mentally ill ( I think it was schizophrenia) this happened in 1932 .
Maybe I'm wrong but I feel like the over importance of religion in India is holding them back, whether it's Hinduism or Islam. They have so many superstitions about mental health, physical or mental disabilities, medical illnesses, etc. I'm sure this has happened in most societies, but it's up to the people when they want to break free from that. I'm not necessarily saying people can't be religious or anything, just that the attitudes/culture need to be reformed in order for things to get better and for them to advance.
believing some saint is going to cure you is not islam. There are no objects that should be referred to as holy except the Quran. As a muslim , I can tell you there was nothing islamic about what is happening in that area. It seems like what's happening there is influenced greatly by old traditions
What are the India media and journalists doing this this whole time? only modi modi modi.. and silly JNU protest? Everyday on the front page,modi, JNU, etc etc.. where are they?
Overonator yes , and in time. as more people are educated and move into the middle class opposed to the 10% today. I'm sure India will become a more gender balanced society. We should all help the process through constructive criticism.
I was put in a mental hospital(SH hospital Paynkulam,Kerala,India) in 2008 bcoz of severe depression,and the doctor, Shameer Moideen,started giving me medicines for OCD,soon I started vomiting non stop and blood started coming out of my urine.The condition under which the inmates were kept in was horrible. Unnecessary ect or shock therapy was given frequently to absolutely normal individuals, and after the shock therapy, individuals were left to fend for themselves without any care.A catholic nun named Sister Vincy enjoyed torturing the poor inmates by puting water in buckets used for cleaning latrines for the drinking needs of the inmates. This sight created a feeling of revulsion in the poor inmates.Mix ups v
although im just a 12 yr old this makes me tear up and i hope the children grow up to be educated and to know that this is wrong. i think that because this has been going on for so long it might feel normal but we need the man and women to speak up for their country. i really do want to help i just dk how
I have BPD and have had episodes of psychosis in the past. Seeing how these people are treated and how I would be treated if I was just born in a different place breaks my heart. Treating someone like this only makes an exisiting mental illness even worse. ☹
happens in america too my ex bf was talking to this other man about how to stop having to pay his ex wife so much and how to get the kids and they definitely discussed having her evaluated for mental health issues. (she's a respected teacher at a good school so idk he was just so spiteful he became delusional ... irony) she probably wouldn't have been committed but the man he was talking to, successfully took his daughter away from his ex wife. My ex (ex, for this reason among others) didn't even really want his kids/enjoy being around them but he didn't want her to have them because it was just another way to "get bacK' at her for not being easy to control and his puppet.
+xKineticSparks "happens in america too" Women in america get the rights over their children and I'm sure if her husband did get her evaluated for mental health that she would pass and if she didn't there would be a reason. If she failed the mental health test they wouldn't lock her up either, they would just pass the rights over the children to the husband. the only time they will lock somebody up in america for mental health is if they either commit a crime or they're a danger to the public.
+micheals1992 I was speaking more to the practice/culture of husbands using false accusations of mental disturbance to undermine their wives than legislation that supports that kind of evil. a lot of times I watch vice videos where in the comments, people pretend Americans are morally superior and use footage like this to view other cultures as subhuman, that's all. so I meant accusing wives of being crazy just to screw them over somehow is sort of a universal practice. just like there are false rape accusations used to leverage power, the mental health thing is used to undermine women. we always hear of the "crazy ex gf/wife" trope more than the crazy ex bf/husband when men are statically proven to be more likely to stalk or kill their exes. as far as legislation goes. america doesn't even have the infrastructure to support ppl that are ACTUALLY crazy so they either over crowd prisons or continue to roam the streets w.o many healthcare options. so regardless of the circumstances anyone who is evaluated and found to be mentally disturbed is less likely to have anything happen to them. that kid just killed 10 ppl at university after everyone knew he needed help but that didn't prevent him from owning an arsenal or weaponry.
+micheals1992 I was speaking more to the practice/culture of husbands using false accusations of mental disturbance to undermine their wives than legislation that supports that kind of evil. a lot of times I watch vice videos where in the comments, people pretend Americans are morally superior and use footage like this to view other cultures as subhuman, that's all. so I meant accusing wives of being crazy just to screw them over somehow is sort of a universal practice. just like there are false rape accusations used to leverage power, the mental health thing is used to undermine women. we always hear of the "crazy ex gf/wife" trope more than the crazy ex bf/husband when men are statically proven to be more likely to stalk or kill their exes. as far as legislation goes. america doesn't even have the infrastructure to support ppl that are ACTUALLY crazy so they either over crowd prisons or continue to roam the streets w.o many healthcare options. so regardless of the circumstances anyone who is evaluated and found to be mentally disturbed is less likely to have anything happen to them. that kid just killed 10 ppl at university after everyone knew he needed help but that didn't prevent him from owning an arsenal or weaponry.
+xKineticSparks Don't try, these people just show up to spew racist/sexist shit all over the comments. Courting them just allows them to continue their circular logic.
+HDaviator The funniest thing is that men are objectified in games as well, there are no fat ugly protagonists lol. Also men are abused on the internet just as much, ever heard of the feminist hashtag #Killallmen ? Feminists are just overly sensitive hypocrites.
this honestly broke my heart. i am a behavioral therapist and many of the families i work with are indian and they are the best people ever. i can't help but to think if they were back in India how they would be treated.
As someone struggling to cope with mental illness I have had friends and family tell me the illness isn’t real and I should stop acting. Some of the words that hurts most is by a friend of mine, he told people who saw me during some of my desperate moments that I do it (self harm) all the time and they should ignore it. It was painful but I have to deal with it.
That women in pink is so brave! ECT is very dangerous and painful and puts a person in vegetative state. This is so sad. India needs serious improvement in mental health and education. This is revealing to me as an Indian girl. I got to know about this sad state of affairs. Insanity petitions should be abolished.
This is heart wrenching to even think- and the idea of shock treatment is absolutely disgusting. I’m from Pakistan and unfortunately there isn’t much difference in the approach of treating mental illnesses. I have seen it first hand in my own family and it’s appalling and painful. Girls are taken to shrines, peer babas who abuse them, mental hospitals where the staff isn’t professionally trained... but all of this is ignored just because these poor people can’t stand up and articulate their rights. May God rectify us as a nation and grant us the sense to solve these problems with compassion and a broader vision.
@@samajlo4336 Trump's trying to make it like that here. His party formed a 'women's issues' panel of all old white guys. They're doing what they can to turn back the clock to the Dark Ages. This world is sick.
When I was 17 years I stay all summer vacation on mental hospital thanks God my parents help me and love me 💗 I wish all girls have good parents like mine 💗
One of the first things you learn as an aspiring mental health provider is the concept of patient buy-in. They need to be willing and able to acknowledge that they have a problem and give concent to a plan of care. Otherwise, they will fight the process and stop taking their meds as soon as you send them home. There's a whole ecosystem in the US of careful evaluation, legal admission, application for insurance/goverment assistance, involving the families when possible, etc. Is it perfect? Of course not. Sometimes it's _too_ stringent and people get left out because they're "not crazy enough" (leaving them to seek out expensive private practices or cheap street drugs). India is a great and storied country, and has been making great strides in improving the life of her citizens. Let's hope that everyone gets lifted up together, in time.
Unfortunately knowing isn't enough. This is sickening. I am a man btw. I hope the people that allow this suffer. Sorry but that's how I feel about this.
This is Me, growing up & today with my parents. I'm disgusted everyday of my life. My family should understand what my symptoms or my mental injuries and mental illness' are. Instead, I get talked down to, treated like I'm 13 years old, I have to live in an unfinished room with insulation showing in the walls, floor has no carpet, isnt wood floor, it looks like a floor that is unfinished, cracks between the floor and the wall. They know what some of my 'problems' are, as in, some of the things I have difficulties with. Instead of talking to me or helping to find a solution, I get yelled at, treated like a failure and am not allowed to have any 'privileges' I pay my parents to stay here. I pay for everything my child needs. But my parents claim me and my child as dependents on THEIR taxes, because I do not have a job.
@@rebekahlikesmusic2723 Thank You so very much 💗 I am trying so hard to be positive and grateful. I have been changing my perception to be less critical of others & myself. Thank you ❤️
@@gillypiexo you're welcome💚 may God bless you and your precious babies 🙏🏻 i know in horrible situations it's so hard to find positives, but they're always there if we look hard enough! I have faith that God never leaves us all alone to suffer, He will get you through it! I claim it for you in Jesus name 🙏🏻 🙌🏻
@@gillypiexoand i mean no offense or anything like that by prayin in Jesus name. Its just my own personal religion. i totally respect it if you dont share the same beliefs. I just wanted to pray for you and send good vibes your way ✌🏻
@@rebekahlikesmusic2723 no offense taken. I appreciate you saying that. I went to catholic school for 9 yrs, I fell off for a few years before I met my partner and became pregnant. We are Christians as well 🤗 Thank you for caring ❤️ spreading love and kindness
I hv depression n sometimes people called me mad because of my depression my mood switched so fast n I can't control my mood so ppl afraid of me now I take medicine but now I m alon with no emotional help but luck that my husband n 7yrs old daughter help me to recover
The sad thing is, being in a hospital for years is bad but the treatment in the US is also bad. Insurance companies will only pay the minimum to stabilize a person- you’re looking at 5 days average in many cases. So people are thrown on high doses of meds to get some symptom management, get discharged, and relapse. Many people can’t afford the medications they were put on, don’t have access to follow up care, and that week or less can’t address any of the underlying issues (where they live, who they live with, etc.). While de-institutionalization had a positive intention behind it, the significant lack of resources to support those with mental illness in the community setting has failed so many in need. They end up homeless, in prison, or on the revolving door of hospitalizations.
I am Indian and i love my country. ... but i,even after watching this, i still love India.The problem is not with the country the problem is the arrogant people and the equally arrogant government.
Loving the country doesn't mean we don't acknowledge it's issues and mistakes. Both can be true at once. I love my country so I will work to make it better. That's the attitude we all should have. Not I love India and it's perfect. Real love should drive meaningful change
OMG, devastating, I don't know what to say. Government of India, please help these people. This is a medieval situation. Every patient with an mental illness needs a human treatment. Thank you for making and sharing this documentary!!!!!!
i really feel for these woman, this happened in small towns in Quebec/Canada in religious institutions. my mother was brought to one of these by her own mother ,my grandmother) and she was heavily drugged and given shock treatment and locked up in dark rooms with straight jackets, even though my mother is/was a tiny frail woman... when i was growing up she was a vegetable, i was never able to have a relationship with her, even now she is still barely lucid.
That was a last resort probably, these people here are being given ECT's without their consent and most of the time nothing is really wrong with them; search up the side effects, they're horrifying
I witnessed this myself at some dargah in remote India and I witnessed people with kids who had Down's syndrome sitting for months outside the dargah waiting for them to be cured. I was utterly heart broken because I wondered how on earth is acceptable?
Thanx Vice for bringing this subject. As an Indian, I support you for telling the truth. The system needs to be changed, both the legal and medical systems.
A Bollywood film star committed suicide 2 months ago and no one accepts the fact that he was bipolar despite there being medical certifications and other issues he faced during the pandemic. Theres a big convo on nepotism and other thing but no one has mentioned anything about mental health yet.
I know someone who had ECT recently after many, many years of trying everything else possible. The procedure was less than an hour and she walked out of there a different person. The person she wanted to be. It was absolutely amazing. I live in the USA. She had no side effects. Yes, it's a last resort treatment. But it works amazingly well.
well, my mum thinks im possesed with a demon just because of my mood swings and anger issues and eating disorder. it fucks me up, everytime she says something like: "hows it talking to your demons?" when literally the only thing i do is sit and think, after her screaming at me. what else am i supposed to do. im so done
I was shocked to watch this video and to see how woman are treated In India!!! Mentally I’ll woman, and how a man can lie and have his wife committed for insanity when she is absolutely fine!! Not only would the dear woman feel betrayed, but being locked up, given medication 💊 she never needed, ECT’s, grieving the loss of husband and in many cases children, etc Im a white woman from Melbourne Australia, and I do care very very much!!! This is wrong and cruel, a violation of human rights!!! The government must be aware of this but do nothing??? So horrific!!! And even the ones who do need help, because of no laws in place to protect the rights of the woman, they get assaulted, over medicated etc and there is nothing they can do!! They are trapped!! 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 I will be praying 🙏 🕊 for these precious woman!!! Jesus loves them so very much!!! I won’t forget!!! 💗❤️💕
When I came to know about schizophrenia by one of videos of SBSK I thought these things are not seen in India atleast I have never heard about any such things. But then I came to know these things do happens here but people are so ignorant that they relate it to some kind of paranoid. People are so less aware that they just suffer without knowing their diagnosis. Mental illness is a very big stigma in India even government doesn't pay attention to these issues. Being a medical student I wish to do something for patients and making them aware about their diagnosis. Thanks for this video that made me aware that people suffer from mental ilness all over the world its not confined to some places.
I don't even live in India and seeing this pisses me off. If I were a politician in any country that allowed this to happen, I would be utterly embarrassed. This is absolutely ridiculous and unacceptable.
VICE News travels to Maharashtra to investigate what it’s like to be deemed a woman with mental illness in India today.
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It's not true what have been said about ECT. It's completely propaganda. You should look it up before saying stupid things about it.
@@hayatpopal This really makes me mad that this can happen in 2019. How? Why does it continue? Not only the inequality of women but the neglect of the mentally ill? Look at the difference when they have medication.With all the money around the world, why is this and homelessness still vital issues? It sickens me. If I ever became a multimillionaire, I would be broke and happy in a year. Someone needs to remind men how their sorry asses got to even exist. All I can do is Pray
@Adam Heyes bruh
Adam Heyes I feel so sad for you religiously brainwashed sheep child
Nice but incorrect ect depiction n myths reinforced abt ect!
As an Indian I thank Vice News for bringing out this issue, this is something which mainstream media will never bring to limelight.
I think it will take the next 3 generation of Indian family to start believing in science before religion. But modernity and progress in diverse field of science has begun in India. Still some of the claims made here in the video can be speculated between different Indian state because some state which are still not great in eduction bend greatly towards religion then even simple medicine. I don't understand the ways of India.
Enjoy! True
bullshit, Maharashtra govt need to stop all this hell on earth of fooling n exploiting poor.
+mtarkes what can one expect from a country whose prime minister has abandoned his wife.
+itsma name Indians are narrow minded when it comes to religion guess everyone is but are ,bounded by family and religious practices , makes it even difficult with different culture being followed by different states.
India's state of Mental health treatment is one of the worst in the world. The major problem lies with ignorance about the issue. No one sees depression as mental disease but rather as a state of mind you can just walk out from. And anything like bipolar disorder or Schizophrenia is treated like madness and untreatable. There is far too much taboo in Indian society regarding mental health and we need to mature up to this issue.
The same applies for the middle east. Actually I think its worst all over Asia. Only in western countries esp the US, UK and Germany that MI service is much better.
Cutie pie yahhhh many countries all over Asia have these close minded thoughts like certain beauty standards and such... basically it’s all about fitting in with the society unfortunately... the elders think more like this tho
It's the whole Pagan culture, how about you get rid of the idea of reincarnation, because of cycle that means that they want people to suffer so they come back with something better in the next life whether it's an elephant eating plastic for 30 years chained up, it gives in the free pass on doing anything morally correct. Get rid of the caste system in this reincarnation bullshit
I don't comprehend the cruelty of this. I would think it would be easy, go to the authorities, write an essay about the issue, write about percentages or knowledge of putting yourself in the same shoes, do a bit of work, and it would get fixed. It's something like that, but not entirely.
Totally agree. So much stigma and lack of education.
Things India need :
1.Old generation to die out.
2.Setting up a eligibility for someone to become a politician .(Like they have tests for IIT's)
3.Government restrictions and sincere punishments for people breaking the laws and not corrupt officer who accept bribes .
4.EDUCATION! (Not engineering or MBBS but on social or moral values .
social values and morals.. there's a whole lot that that can mean..
+Varun Dewan a shit hole can never be cleaned
Daniel Gibbons nobody asked you your medical conditions! jeez this does not help you Danny! go to a doctor! NOW!!! xD
+Holy Thug Dubstep Also, dismiss caste based reservations and establish income based reservations. The general category has suffered enough.
you can't just wait for a generation to die out to do something
Only the rich and famous have a life in India, others merely exist trying to make ends meet.
@Roasted Content wtf they'e mentally ill not possessed. Did you not even watch the video?
That's rough
@The Tick for real? Wow
This is not right ...this can be happen in any country ...m also an Indian ...Nd m happy ....please change your views..
That's the truth every where in the world
being an Indian and a doctor this video is very true. outlook magazine did a cover story on this same issue a few months back. Much change in the system and people's perception of mental illnesses is needed but the modi government cut the medical spending when it made the budget so that seems unlikely anytime soon. side note, why are there mostly bigots and racists in the comments??
+vikrant kanwar Because the internet.
+vikrant kanwar Internet comment sections are their last bastion, so they come here thinking that they will be heard.
+vikrant kanwar also i feel like Indians especially get way too much shit on the internet
atomik nacho everyone who doesn't have a white penis gets shit on the internet
+vikrant kanwar. true on so many levels it took me a minute to realise
We do the same thing in America, only we call it prison. No joke. Most treatment of mental health in this country is provided by prisons.
u ok?
this is true. why did they shut down more then half of the mental hospitals? WHY?
+william leroy Because the non Mentally Ill where crazier than those who where.
+tigerpixie
*John Oliver's* video this Monday is on Mental health Crisis in USA. _Ironic_
#JohnOliver
This is actually very true. would like vice to put a story on this, considering there's probably x10 more cases here in the US than in shitty india
I’m not even slightly surprised by this. It’s horrendous, however, it’s not even that much further back from western mental health care.
I’ve been Inpatient in the U.K. and have had the wrong medication forced on me. I’ve been spat on, hit, pinned down by 5-6 men and much more. I knew a girl who was being forced to have ECT against her will. It’s quite common to see women be stuck on wards for 30 years or so. It’s insane. I would forget where I was and who I was bc of the meds I was on.
The whole world needs to start looking at mental illness and treatment differently. This is so awful. My heart bleeds for these women. They need love and safety, not torture.
Me too connie. If you are Connie, you are not stupid at all! I feel for those women too.
ECT being done against your will was the reason my best friend killed herself instead of seeking help because she was too scared
It kills people
Omg this happens in the UK too??
@@AnNa-gv6ep It probably happens in a lot of Western countries just hushed up...
You want to see the treatment I'm India's village's, if you think this is bad.
I think this is terrible how these people are treated. My mum has bipolar and with medication she's fine, if only they had the knowledge of this medicine.
卌Sarah ya imagine that they dont take pills in india cus no health care for the poor
Bipolar is demonic posession..
UNBOX FREAK no its not
Shut up
@@Luluindia2003 no its not lol
@@Luluindia2003 No its not, my mom has bipolar and she is the sweetest person i have ever met and the only one who actually cared for me
*These are the women who actually need feminism.*
Henry Fung Yes, some do.
Henry Fung No, western feminism is a joke. I don't worship women.
I'm not white.
White western men travel to places like Thailand to fuck kids.
***** Nobody asked for your inferior explaining.
***** yet you replied, plenty of white men always complain about how nasty white women are for not being 100% submissive like asian women are (even though thats false). Its a form of sexism, that YOU asian women NEVER stand up to. You let this sterotype attack western women, so you can shamelessy enjoy your attention from white males.
Henry Fung god you need to stfu
In the early 1900's- in america the exact same thing happened, a husband could conmit wife for life; a mother who disagreed with her daughters choice of who the daughter wanted to marry, institutionalized for life& in most cases they went in sane but after 40 plus years were nothing but a shell of a person after ECT, lobodomy& anything else hospital felt like doing. We only got pateint rights in 1978 so, maybe some countries are set in our old ways and stayed that way. Our country wants to hide its misdeeds from 100 years ago but ive read alot on the subject& it chills me to the bone. Very scary. Sad. Stolen lives. I pray it gets better in India. Peace
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southsyde Sasha u r so true dear !! plz read my above comments!!
southsyde Sasha problem is that many people are really sick and dangerous but they dont take them to clinics,tjey walk on the street and if they release them they make mistake
@@Noname-ni8qm People make ''mistakes'' all the time, they are not animals🙄 please educate yourself on mental health. We all have mental health issues if i must be completely honest, depression, anxiety, bi polar, ADHD, PTSD etc. We ALL suffer with some form of mental health issues, so really, you could also be admitted on anyone of those guises, and with your logic, it would be justified. Bring in corruption with the law and our families, and its 10X worse. Esp for women.
💛 Yes. 💛
I started developing anxiety issues since I was 16 and though I begged my family to get me treated they scolded me and told me to “stop thinking the way I was” . I lived with it for 12 years during which many a times I contemplated suicide. I studied hard and got a job but still my anxiety did not let me perform well. Years of untreated anxiety led to depression and then I eventually had the good fortune to come to the west where I got the treatment and where I was able to say to others that I have a mental disorder. Here I am not looked down for having it. India is a hell for people like me.
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Yes it’s the same for me
I believe that in shame-based families or shamed-based countries that the problem of mental health is buried rather than dealt with in an open manner, which is required for stability and healing.
I am going through what you went through. I am only 17, I don't have any kind of legal rights or any kind money too to get help. I have mentioned to my parents a lot of times that I feel suicidal but they just don't care enough. I just want to leave India as soon as possible, if I ever have children, I will not raise in a country like India.
@@mahek3017 u should talk about this to ur teachers at school. That was one mistake I did. I wish I had spoken about it to them. And don't give up.
That mat in the ECT room looks like the most hopeless and tragic place in the entire universe
Nikki H ya, actually it is !!
Heaven help them. Horrific to witness. Poor souls.
My mam has schizophrenia and i would never abandon her in a mental asylum. Omg i feel sick thinking of it. I managed to get her out of hospital and we both live in a culdesac of bungalows and she just lives opposite me. Shes great on medication and i have given up working to keep an eye on her. Shes 10 times better than she was in hospital. Please people of india DONT abandon people because of mental health they need you. Just think if it happened to you and you got dumped in a dirty hospital that is dangerous. Would you like that ? NO...
Same here my mom is going through scrizophrania ...well it's mainly because she was sexually abused in her childhood but she didn't opened which resulted into mentally I'll
@@opai1821 yes it's triggered because of past trauma. My mam found my baby sister dead and she had a nervous breakdown then lost me and my sister to social services and we went to live with grandparents and she just spiralled and turned into an alcoholic then got sectioned and was sectioned for over 10 years. Now she is back to normality apart from hearing voices and talking back to them and never drank for over 12 years
very good issue you people raised, living in India but never heard about it, our main stream media is busy highlighting just political issues. hats off to you guys, keep touching such issues
shame of indian goverment
Ruby Rodrigues it does not related with govt. It's in religion factual
Vivek Chouhan if that's the case, how come government run psych wards are prisons?
@@circadiana , yes, corrupt Govt. We are considered spiritual people yet, we are most dishonest and currupt.
Ruby Rodrigues princess
This is not govt this are Muslims dum fucker
I was in a taxi in India and sight seeing … the tax driver pointed at a mental asylum and laughed (like he thought I’d also find it entertaining)
He didn’t realise I’m a nurse 😣 I had this gut wrenching feeling they were locked in there and being abused and wasn’t impressed. I love India, Indian culture, food and dress, etc, but I don’t like India’s view of the vulnerable, mentally ill, poor and disabled. Very very sad. These attitudes need to change.
Sounds like your talking about the u.s. The u.s views on mental ill, the vulnerable, poor & disable. Trust me its not much difrent.
@@GOne-vj6no there are no mental asylums in the US, or in the U.K…
I’m not insulting India. I love India. But there is a huge disparity over how India and the US/UK view people with disabilities (particularly people with mental health and psychiatric illnesses)
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+Jen Garlinge Not many comments make me chortle out loud haha. Great stuff.
angelfire1987 i'v been away from youtube for a while. I'v been experimenting and many experiment's, have shown me thing's. You have a female name and you will be attacked aye! and for no other reason. I have seen mental illness and realise that, most of it is inflincted upon those who do not comform{to whatever}. Try my experiment. Raghnall MacPhadhraig.
+Jen Garlinge And this completely retarded society is supposed to be the next economic global superpower? This is just one example of their persisten ridiculous backward superstitions. People are being killed for eating beef for crying out loud. Girls are gang-raped on a daily basis. About a billion Indians dont even know how to use a toilet! Come on...
+Jen Garlinge You are too right!
It's probably super offensive to people struggling with mental illnesses, but this made me chortle. Thanks!
as an indian, i am astonished at the amount of issues that keep coming up in this country. Issues that have been going on for a long time but are only currently being brought into light. I am truly ashamed.
Ignorance is a bliss and Indians are supremely blessed
I doubt you are Indian
Coincidentally, we have plenty of really great Indian psychiatrists in the USA!
They dont come to India
Couz Indian people dont take them seriously
@@sanjanavishwakarma4656 Yes, many Indians believe in blind faith, rather than actual treatment.
Here in India going to a psychiatrist means your are crazy🙂..... ofcourse the new generation is changing its views relating to mental health but still it's a long way to go.
I was suffering with insomnia and severe anxiety. I was recommended a psychiatrist. God she wouldn't let me talk! She thought she was helping me and said that it was all in my head and i just have to close my eyes and go to sleep.I blocked her number after a while.
I am a lawyer. When I was working with a divorce lawyer as a Jr, I had a case identical to vidya's. Its really sad. But the lady is doing OK now and lives with her daughter.
Ground reality of women in India are sad , depressing and suicidal.
damn bollywood films destroying these poor people
why?
fen chillypeper lol i'm just joking man
+Khalid Emadi As an Indian it's quite possible to be exposed to them over long durations.
dont talk about my bolly woodz
+Khalid Emadi Poor women
This happens in the US as well, only the rooms are more clean.
Wait what are you talking about? At least they actually get the help they need.
Not at all!
Read the book, "No one cares about crazy people" by ron powers. It's about the mental health system in America and how it fails its patients.
@@rebeccahill6596 No they do not get help they get drugged.
Sayuas NO THEY DON’T STFU
India have so much inteligent and clever ppl .. All around the globe, they should make pressure to their government and try to make system better. Also mostly, they are very very good and honest ppl. . . But reason for ppl cruelty against women and humans cant be justified coz we have *icks and we are the men... Im praying for better social time for that poor peole and pray for better system for that old and beutiful culture and all India.
Mentally I'll people are both guys and girls. Teens do suicide due to high Competition to go to the top. Parents expectations and many more
I am teen I know that. but really my condition was worse
+Abhineet Soren doesn't be global if u in that condition u must take care of yourself. And u should know that 'teenage' body going to the biggest evolution in our lives. So, my advice is to look in future but carefully and find some sport our any other hobby which is related to physical work. Take care of yourself is your primary and secondary thing. Stay well and sometimes live like it is the last day in ur life.
+Stefan Konstantinovic in India people see perfection in everything. This is Asia
Not really, many of them cheat the education system and most still live in poverty yet they claim to be a superpower by 2020 😂
Nadir you are a Muslim. Enough said
As a mental health activist in the UK, I have mixed feelings about this. Of course the scenario Neha Shastry describes is shocking, but she doesn't seem to be aware that almost everything she describes is also true in many Western countries, including the UK and America. For example having ECT without consent - I do not know precisely the situation in the U.S. (although I do know it is used very frequently and I would imagine mostly without consent) - in the UK consent or the lack of it can fall into different categories but in practice it is without consent - no-one who really knew what ECT does would agree to it. And she seems to have what seems to me to be a very niave belief in Western science and Western medicine - that there are "mental illnesses" like 'schizophrenia' which are best treated by modern medicine - those of who have witnessed all this up close and personal will tell you that it is really an ideology of control and denial hiding behind a pseudo-science. I watched the earlier scenes at the Sufi shine with interest - it was hard to work out what if people resolved any internal crises there or not - certainly possession with demons is something I have never seen or experienced - but people often need to go crazy to resolve an internal crisis and if given support, which can have a spiritual dimension, do often come through as much stronger people. India is lucky to have only 43 psychiatric hospitals, however - the psychiatric and pharmaceutical companies will see that as a market opportunity and will eager to expand their empires - India is much better having a more open idea of what reality is than the closed Western Mind which many are struggling against. As some background to this, you may be interested in a recent (and very controversial) book published last year, called "Anatomy of an Epidemic" by Robert Whittaker which uses a mountain of evidence to argue that prior to the takeover by psychopharmacology, crises often resolved themselves, but that in fact the drugs cause a major problem and an addiction - they may indeed suppress and initial crisis which needs to happen but the patients never resolve anything and become addicted for life.
what has the UK to do with india?
So an article about something in India needs to include the UK? Why? They never once claimed ECT did not happen or happened less in any other country.
I think you are a bit too focused on your profession. Step back a bit.
Does that make it okay? Also the contrast between indias Health (Mental health system more specifically) and that of the west, is so huge its not even compareable, esp with all the corruption.
I think the main point of this video was to discuss the obvious injustice in how these women are being treated. Schizophrenia is now recognized as a legitimate disease after brain scan studies conducted over the course of several years have shown an increase of black areas on the brain which represent deterioration. It is from this gradual deterioration that those with schizophrenia can’t distinguish their own voices bc their thoughts are jumbled up and so they think they are hearing voices. A goal of medication is to slow down this process or hopefully stop it.
Yeah cause ppl that are going thru mental health in India thinks about the mental health in the UK US Western countries......
It’s hard dealing with schizophrenia even in my first world country. I’ve had ECT myself and it was very effective with very mild side effects, but it was with my consent and I had full anesthesia. I’m so thankful I didn’t happen to be born in India. I hope the situation improves for these people.
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I'm proud that I am born in India, an India that is way more rich than your so called first world country and has world-class medical facilities and hospitals to which people visit from the whole world to benefit from. An as citizen who keeps eye on everything happening in my country, this is the first time I came across such a thing because this happens in rural part of India which is kind of filled with orthodox people that do not listen to anyone because India has 1.4 billion people and is divided in 29 states and those states are like different countries to everyone here because they share different language, culture, mentality, literacy and etc. and is filled with natural wonders that no country has.
So, better try not to judge a superior country by watching just a one fucking video.
@@OmMishra12
No need for all that. Because she was only saying her own opinion..... India believe in religons.... God is the Holy Spirit.... Not supersticious & evil. Some one told me once they tie them in chains in other parts too for mental health.... I'm Godly so my mind stays good the way it was made....The people who suppose to help are murderes because they aren't caring at all. God punishes all evil acts. And India is curruption because their histories were too. Religons are a death trap. God is Freedom. God is Life.
@@OmMishra12 Burnol 😂
@@OmMishra12 india is shitty
This is why you don't want to be open about your struggling with emotions and thougts . Too many people beat you down while you are sensitive.
it's insane how backward humans are
True story : one of my distant relatives was shut in a room for days and eventually died in there because he was mentally ill ( I think it was schizophrenia) this happened in 1932 .
If it was schizophrenia being traps in that room much have been so much worse 😭
Maybe I'm wrong but I feel like the over importance of religion in India is holding them back, whether it's Hinduism or Islam. They have so many superstitions about mental health, physical or mental disabilities, medical illnesses, etc. I'm sure this has happened in most societies, but it's up to the people when they want to break free from that. I'm not necessarily saying people can't be religious or anything, just that the attitudes/culture need to be reformed in order for things to get better and for them to advance.
It's old culture and traditions. Not to be confused with religion
Agree
@Pin Apple it really isn't..
Absolutely agree
believing some saint is going to cure you is not islam. There are no objects that should be referred to as holy except the Quran. As a muslim , I can tell you there was nothing islamic about what is happening in that area. It seems like what's happening there is influenced greatly by old traditions
What are the India media and journalists doing this this whole time? only modi modi modi.. and silly JNU protest? Everyday on the front page,modi, JNU, etc etc.. where are they?
This has been going on for decades. The buildings are crumbling. Looks like it is a shame for society.
It's been 4 year and still nothing has changed especially JNU
This what real patriarchy looks like. Not the kind of patriarchy so often claimed in the West.
+Overonator Yeah, it is always over there.
No one believes that.
+Overonator It was the same in the west , no so long ago.
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Sure but progress has been made.
Overonator yes , and in time. as more people are educated and move into the middle class opposed to the 10% today. I'm sure India will become a more gender balanced society. We should all help the process through constructive criticism.
I was put in a mental hospital(SH hospital Paynkulam,Kerala,India) in 2008 bcoz of severe depression,and the doctor, Shameer Moideen,started giving me medicines for OCD,soon I started vomiting non stop and blood started coming out of my urine.The condition under which the inmates were kept in was horrible. Unnecessary ect or shock therapy was given frequently to absolutely normal individuals, and after the shock therapy, individuals were left to fend for themselves without any care.A catholic nun named Sister Vincy enjoyed torturing the poor inmates by puting water in buckets used for cleaning latrines for the drinking needs of the inmates. This sight created a feeling of revulsion in the poor inmates.Mix ups
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although im just a 12 yr old this makes me tear up and i hope the children grow up to be educated and to know that this is wrong. i think that because this has been going on for so long it might feel normal but we need the man and women to speak up for their country. i really do want to help i just dk how
I have BPD and have had episodes of psychosis in the past. Seeing how these people are treated and how I would be treated if I was just born in a different place breaks my heart. Treating someone like this only makes an exisiting mental illness even worse. ☹
happens in america too my ex bf was talking to this other man about how to stop having to pay his ex wife so much and how to get the kids and they definitely discussed having her evaluated for mental health issues. (she's a respected teacher at a good school so idk he was just so spiteful he became delusional ... irony) she probably wouldn't have been committed but the man he was talking to, successfully took his daughter away from his ex wife. My ex (ex, for this reason among others) didn't even really want his kids/enjoy being around them but he didn't want her to have them because it was just another way to "get bacK' at her for not being easy to control and his puppet.
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*JOHN OLIVER's* video this Monday is on Mental health crisis in *USA*. _Ironic_
#JohnOliver
+xKineticSparks "happens in america too"
Women in america get the rights over their children and I'm sure if her husband did get her evaluated for mental health that she would pass and if she didn't there would be a reason. If she failed the mental health test they wouldn't lock her up either, they would just pass the rights over the children to the husband. the only time they will lock somebody up in america for mental health is if they either commit a crime or they're a danger to the public.
+micheals1992 I was speaking more to the practice/culture of husbands using false accusations of mental disturbance to undermine their wives than legislation that supports that kind of evil. a lot of times I watch vice videos where in the comments, people pretend Americans are morally superior and use footage like this to view other cultures as subhuman, that's all. so I meant accusing wives of being crazy just to screw them over somehow is sort of a universal practice. just like there are false rape accusations used to leverage power, the mental health thing is used to undermine women. we always hear of the "crazy ex gf/wife" trope more than the crazy ex bf/husband when men are statically proven to be more likely to stalk or kill their exes.
as far as legislation goes. america doesn't even have the infrastructure to support ppl that are ACTUALLY crazy so they either over crowd prisons or continue to roam the streets w.o many healthcare options. so regardless of the circumstances anyone who is evaluated and found to be mentally disturbed is less likely to have anything happen to them. that kid just killed 10 ppl at university after everyone knew he needed help but that didn't prevent him from owning an arsenal or weaponry.
+micheals1992 I was speaking more to the practice/culture of husbands using false accusations of mental disturbance to undermine their wives than legislation that supports that kind of evil. a lot of times I watch vice videos where in the comments, people pretend Americans are morally superior and use footage like this to view other cultures as subhuman, that's all. so I meant accusing wives of being crazy just to screw them over somehow is sort of a universal practice. just like there are false rape accusations used to leverage power, the mental health thing is used to undermine women. we always hear of the "crazy ex gf/wife" trope more than the crazy ex bf/husband when men are statically proven to be more likely to stalk or kill their exes.
as far as legislation goes. america doesn't even have the infrastructure to support ppl that are ACTUALLY crazy so they either over crowd prisons or continue to roam the streets w.o many healthcare options. so regardless of the circumstances anyone who is evaluated and found to be mentally disturbed is less likely to have anything happen to them. that kid just killed 10 ppl at university after everyone knew he needed help but that didn't prevent him from owning an arsenal or weaponry.
+xKineticSparks Don't try, these people just show up to spew racist/sexist shit all over the comments. Courting them just allows them to continue their circular logic.
Only person to watch this in 2019 ?
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India needs alot of education!!! At different levels me as an Indian I feel so devastated
India needs
A) Population Control
B) Education
C) A bunch of other things but the most important are the above.
Education about moral, social and economical reforms .
How sad that my sister's in these countries n this era are still treated this way . How my heart cries for them . God please help them .
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And feminists in america complain about video games and twitter posts...
Hit the nail on the head right there my friend.
+HDaviator Agree
As a feminist in America, we dont realize how good we've got it compared to women around the world.
+HDaviator So what, people should only focus on the extreme cases occurring internationally?
+HDaviator The funniest thing is that men are objectified in games as well, there are no fat ugly protagonists lol. Also men are abused on the internet just as much, ever heard of the feminist hashtag #Killallmen ? Feminists are just overly sensitive hypocrites.
this honestly broke my heart. i am a behavioral therapist and many of the families i work with are indian and they are the best people ever. i can't help but to think if they were back in India how they would be treated.
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Vidya look like beautiful smart well educated woman ! It’s heartbreaking to see he suffer
This happens to the people in the lowest strata of the society. An overhaul is needed.
As an Indian immigrant, I’m really grateful to vice for bringing a bit more light to this
As someone struggling to cope with mental illness I have had friends and family tell me the illness isn’t real and I should stop acting. Some of the words that hurts most is by a friend of mine, he told people who saw me during some of my desperate moments that I do it (self harm) all the time and they should ignore it. It was painful but I have to deal with it.
That women in pink is so brave! ECT is very dangerous and painful and puts a person in vegetative state. This is so sad. India needs serious improvement in mental health and education. This is revealing to me as an Indian girl. I got to know about this sad state of affairs. Insanity petitions should be abolished.
Sound like witch persecutions
Extremely sad. Didin't know this kind of stuff still happens.
This is heart wrenching to even think- and the idea of shock treatment is absolutely disgusting.
I’m from Pakistan and unfortunately there isn’t much difference in the approach of treating mental illnesses. I have seen it first hand in my own family and it’s appalling and painful.
Girls are taken to shrines, peer babas who abuse them, mental hospitals where the staff isn’t professionally trained... but all of this is ignored just because these poor people can’t stand up and articulate their rights.
May God rectify us as a nation and grant us the sense to solve these problems with compassion and a broader vision.
being an indian i still wonder what the hell is the indian government doing
in the way of women
I'm hopeful that India will change for good...
how?
Stop treating your women like this!!! This is old! Some men don't want to see the power become even because that would render them, well, equal.
I suspect it's only the guys who are 'less than' who wd be threatened by an equal partner.
@@staceykersting705 Why don't you guys help us?
@@samajlo4336 Trump's trying to make it like that here. His party formed a 'women's issues' panel of all old white guys. They're doing what they can to turn back the clock to the Dark Ages. This world is sick.
Moments like these make me ashamed to call myself human
the poor women suffer all the time while the men get away with it, when they know who put them there in the first place!
When I was 17 years I stay all summer vacation on mental hospital thanks God my parents help me and love me 💗 I wish all girls have good parents like mine 💗
Thank you vice, As indian i never knew about it. keep making good stuff. love from india
The work here you made is really appreciative 🙏👏👏
One of the first things you learn as an aspiring mental health provider is the concept of patient buy-in. They need to be willing and able to acknowledge that they have a problem and give concent to a plan of care. Otherwise, they will fight the process and stop taking their meds as soon as you send them home.
There's a whole ecosystem in the US of careful evaluation, legal admission, application for insurance/goverment assistance, involving the families when possible, etc. Is it perfect? Of course not. Sometimes it's _too_ stringent and people get left out because they're "not crazy enough" (leaving them to seek out expensive private practices or cheap street drugs). India is a great and storied country, and has been making great strides in improving the life of her citizens. Let's hope that everyone gets lifted up together, in time.
Thank you for the video. People need to know about this terrible situation.
Unfortunately knowing isn't enough. This is sickening. I am a man btw. I hope the people that allow this suffer. Sorry but that's how I feel about this.
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This is Me, growing up & today with my parents. I'm disgusted everyday of my life. My family should understand what my symptoms or my mental injuries and mental illness' are. Instead, I get talked down to, treated like I'm 13 years old, I have to live in an unfinished room with insulation showing in the walls, floor has no carpet, isnt wood floor, it looks like a floor that is unfinished, cracks between the floor and the wall. They know what some of my 'problems' are, as in, some of the things I have difficulties with. Instead of talking to me or helping to find a solution, I get yelled at, treated like a failure and am not allowed to have any 'privileges' I pay my parents to stay here. I pay for everything my child needs. But my parents claim me and my child as dependents on THEIR taxes, because I do not have a job.
I pray you can get you and your kids out of there...I'm so sorry that sounds awful
@@rebekahlikesmusic2723 Thank You so very much 💗 I am trying so hard to be positive and grateful. I have been changing my perception to be less critical of others & myself. Thank you ❤️
@@gillypiexo you're welcome💚 may God bless you and your precious babies 🙏🏻 i know in horrible situations it's so hard to find positives, but they're always there if we look hard enough! I have faith that God never leaves us all alone to suffer, He will get you through it! I claim it for you in Jesus name 🙏🏻 🙌🏻
@@gillypiexoand i mean no offense or anything like that by prayin in Jesus name. Its just my own personal religion. i totally respect it if you dont share the same beliefs. I just wanted to pray for you and send good vibes your way ✌🏻
@@rebekahlikesmusic2723 no offense taken. I appreciate you saying that. I went to catholic school for 9 yrs, I fell off for a few years before I met my partner and became pregnant. We are Christians as well 🤗 Thank you for caring ❤️ spreading love and kindness
I hv depression n sometimes people called me mad because of my depression my mood switched so fast n I can't control my mood so ppl afraid of me now I take medicine but now I m alon with no emotional help but luck that my husband n 7yrs old daughter help me to recover
@metube where I find people who knw me my own mother cut content with me
The sad thing is, being in a hospital for years is bad but the treatment in the US is also bad. Insurance companies will only pay the minimum to stabilize a person- you’re looking at 5 days average in many cases. So people are thrown on high doses of meds to get some symptom management, get discharged, and relapse. Many people can’t afford the medications they were put on, don’t have access to follow up care, and that week or less can’t address any of the underlying issues (where they live, who they live with, etc.). While de-institutionalization had a positive intention behind it, the significant lack of resources to support those with mental illness in the community setting has failed so many in need. They end up homeless, in prison, or on the revolving door of hospitalizations.
I heard Shane gave the intern high marks for this interview. Her major at Berkeley is journalism. Well done
Christ sooo much injustice in this world. well done Vice for covering stories like this.
I live in Thane and I am ashamed of the Mental health system.
Poor girl at 2:55 is suffering a terrible anxiety attack 😔😣
This is so heartbreaking 💔
This video was very much required. Thanks Vice
I am Indian and i love my country. ... but i,even after watching this, i still love India.The problem is not with the country the problem is the arrogant people and the equally arrogant government.
who make up the country? the people and the government..
@@gracezb1 but if the people and the government were not arrogant. ... our country would have been respected more. Right?
Loving the country doesn't mean we don't acknowledge it's issues and mistakes. Both can be true at once. I love my country so I will work to make it better. That's the attitude we all should have. Not I love India and it's perfect. Real love should drive meaningful change
OMG, devastating, I don't know what to say. Government of India, please help these people. This is a medieval situation. Every patient with an mental illness needs a human treatment. Thank you for making and sharing this documentary!!!!!!
I'm ashamed at my country's Mental Health System. So sad. serious reform is required.
i really feel for these woman, this happened in small towns in Quebec/Canada in religious institutions. my mother was brought to one of these by her own mother ,my grandmother) and she was heavily drugged and given shock treatment and locked up in dark rooms with straight jackets, even though my mother is/was a tiny frail woman... when i was growing up she was a vegetable, i was never able to have a relationship with her, even now she is still barely lucid.
I have had ECT in Australia and honestly it has saved my life.
That was a last resort probably, these people here are being given ECT's without their consent and most of the time nothing is really wrong with them; search up the side effects, they're horrifying
I witnessed this myself at some dargah in remote India and I witnessed people with kids who had Down's syndrome sitting for months outside the dargah waiting for them to be cured. I was utterly heart broken because I wondered how on earth is acceptable?
Wow this is just shockingly sad :(!!!
Thanx Vice for bringing this subject. As an Indian, I support you for telling the truth. The system needs to be changed, both the legal and medical systems.
Thanks to vice for reveling those issues on india and rest of countries
Now I understand why my psychiatrist goes back to India, 2 times a year for a month.
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In India Cows are more important than women. Recent politics indicate to that fact.
A Bollywood film star committed suicide 2 months ago and no one accepts the fact that he was bipolar despite there being medical certifications and other issues he faced during the pandemic. Theres a big convo on nepotism and other thing but no one has mentioned anything about mental health yet.
This is one of the reason I'm studying psychology.. the lack of awareness and ignorance
I know someone who had ECT recently after many, many years of trying everything else possible. The procedure was less than an hour and she walked out of there a different person. The person she wanted to be. It was absolutely amazing. I live in the USA. She had no side effects. Yes, it's a last resort treatment. But it works amazingly well.
Its like britain 50+ years ago.
My mom has some mental health issues.
But we didn't deserted her or anything.
Shes on medication and home and healthy!
well, my mum thinks im possesed with a demon just because of my mood swings and anger issues and eating disorder. it fucks me up, everytime she says something like:
"hows it talking to your demons?"
when literally the only thing i do is sit and think, after her screaming at me. what else am i supposed to do. im so done
I was shocked to watch this video and to see how woman are treated In India!!! Mentally I’ll woman, and how a man can lie and have his wife committed for insanity when she is absolutely fine!!
Not only would the dear woman feel betrayed, but being locked up, given medication 💊 she never needed, ECT’s, grieving the loss of husband and in many cases children, etc
Im a white woman from Melbourne Australia, and I do care very very much!!! This is wrong and cruel, a violation of human rights!!!
The government must be aware of this but do nothing??? So horrific!!!
And even the ones who do need help, because of no laws in place to protect the rights of the woman, they get assaulted, over medicated etc and there is nothing they can do!! They are trapped!!
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I will be praying 🙏 🕊 for these precious woman!!! Jesus loves them so very much!!!
I won’t forget!!! 💗❤️💕
Thank you so much for this informative piece. Suggestion : The interviewer seemed condescending and rude rather than compassionate.
I agree. My heart sinks to see this+ I work in mental health.
Underdeveloped countries really needs to be educated about mental health.
When I came to know about schizophrenia by one of videos of SBSK I thought these things are not seen in India atleast I have never heard about any such things. But then I came to know these things do happens here but people are so ignorant that they relate it to some kind of paranoid. People are so less aware that they just suffer without knowing their diagnosis. Mental illness is a very big stigma in India even government doesn't pay attention to these issues. Being a medical student I wish to do something for patients and making them aware about their diagnosis. Thanks for this video that made me aware that people suffer from mental ilness all over the world its not confined to some places.
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I don't even live in India and seeing this pisses me off. If I were a politician in any country that allowed this to happen, I would be utterly embarrassed. This is absolutely ridiculous and unacceptable.
Electric shock treatment has no benefit whatsoever
Sock It To Me?! False but okay
Dude..Why r u just focusing on women?
Do men with mental illnesses suffer less & get more facilities in this institutes?
Watching this from the start make me feel sick, it's not a very nice thing to be treated like nothing, I feel for these women, I wish I could help.
This is the kind of news which should delivered to us by the Indian media
11:29 Indian Morpheus!! Serious subject but that is a spot on match.
Mental health is not treated properly in any country.
I'm ashamed I had no idea this was happening in India. I hope a full length documentary is made so we can find out more
I am from India and I was shocked to learn this sad truth about my country.
Thank you so much for covering for such issue.
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