Topic: mental healthcare act

Mental Healthcare Act, 2017, says anyone who attempts suicide would be presumed to have severe stress and would not be tried and punished under the IPC unless proven otherwise.

India has found encouraging success in models where trained residents called ‘lay counsellors’ provide mental healthcare at the village level.

The Mental Healthcare Act says that a patient can’t be forced to get admitted to a hospital and that they have the right to refuse treatment –except in severe cases. However, it remains silent on what the caregiver should do in such cases.

Deep brain stimulation surgery (DBS) is an evolving surgical technique involving implantation of electrodes into specific areas of the brain to regulate abnormal brain activity.

Supreme Court asks govt's view on conflict between IPC Section 309 which criminalises attempt to suicide and the Mental Healthcare Act, 2017 which bars prosecution.

Depression is not a choice, it is not a phase, or a mood, or a personality flaw – it is the experience of being unable to come up for air.