To help people with mental illnesses understand that they are not alone in their struggles, our services are culturally-conscious, innovative, and evidence-based. We serve as the connection point for mental health and well-being at outreach areas, delivering mental health therapy, as well as well-being education and programming to outreach students. India Gives Foundation holds regular mental health awareness programs with free distribution of Notes books, pen, pencils, biscuits and awareness pamphlets at outreach areas. Free mental health education awareness programme was held on Saturday, 10TH TO 20TH October on account of World Mental Health Day 2020 at the outreach study centre at west Medinipur, west Bengal, India. The total 10 study centres has around 250 college students among them few are found suffering from mentally disorder students but they are all at initial stage.
It was noted that most of the students had symptoms of aggressive behaviour, conduct disorder; depression and anxiety, our expert clinical psychologist Mrs. Ranu a psychologist spoke to all the students and collected each one case history and found some students are facing difficulty due to various causes like study pressure, unable to prepare for examination due to family moral support, Students, generally stop themselves from asking their doubts because they feel shy or hesitate. Moreover, they feel that by asking questions they will be interrupting their teacher and the teacher will scold them for stopping when they were explaining a concept to the class and examination time they depend on friends to clarify doubts. Also we found most of the students do not have sufficient study materials. India Gives Foundation provided 10 counselling sessions for 1 study centre for 3 months. Along with distributed mathematics, science and English reference study materials for needy college students.It was felt that more awareness among college students is required and the India Gives Foundation plans to do the same.
