The right to just health care is a fundamental need in today’s society. Mental health remains an important and intrinsic part of general health care and must become important, especially in the current social climate, which is full of hatred, marginalization and division.
Mental illnesses such as depression, anxiety and PTBs are often caused by systemic diseases such as patriarchy, casteism and racism. Women are exposed to sexism and misogyny worldwide, and this marginalization leads to mental health problems. It is often difficult to pathologize this systemic mental illness, and mentally ill women are still “others” in society.
Access to sensitive mental health care is again gender -specific, and women are often excluded from access to therapy. In many cases, women who suffer from mental health issues are tortured and imprisoned with violent institutionalized.
Since the patriarchy affects the men differently, they are also prevented from expressing their feelings and also looking for professional help. For queer people, mental health problems are based on systemic violence, through a queerphobic society, intolerant natal families and orthodox religious owners. Therefore, gender plays a deep role in mental health.
Similarly, your own caste also plays a major role in your mental health and access to mental health care.
According to a report by Asia societyPeople from lower boxes tend to occur by 40% depression than on the national average in India. Some students also have difficulty accessing care, how often the authority characters abuse their power. This has led too Increased depression ratesFear and suicide tendencies among students from marginalized communities. ‘
Individuals of the oppressed caste are also neglected by officials from the upper caste and providers of mental health care, which leads to further differences in access to mental health care for oppressed minorities of the caste. The discussion of the caste in mental health care is not widespread, and very few psychologists and providers of mental health care come from Dalit, Bahujan and Adivasi communities, which can better empathize with the lived experiences of the caste.
The Asia Society report also mentions: “Leading medical facilities malignant forms of bias: Lowered boxes have longer waiting times and calling doctors who refuse to touch the patients or even admit them to their clinics. Some have complained The fact that they have tried to share their problems with psychologists, but the guilt exposure is accepted to them and not on the medical specialist: and Kaste influences how mental health practitioners understand or relate clients. The understanding of psychology in India is “dominated”Elite upper Kaste Hindu professional“Makes it inaccessible and in some cases the marginalized communities is hostile to hostile.”
According to a report by Vice NewsAccess to mental health and investments in their well -being remain a fine dream for Dalit Bahujans in India. The problem is to have fewer Bahujans in the mental health profession. The systemic oppression with which Dalit Bahujans is exposed to in India is often not recognized by the senior caste therapists who dominate the field, or it is reduced to your own defects. ‘
The intersection of gender, caste and mental health is therefore. An important problem with social and medical and medical and medical and medical and medical and healthcare that requires urgent attention and require measures by working for just health care as human law and change in behavior in society. In order to create the discourse and to throw an urgent light on the interface of gender, caste and mental health, Fii is looking for submissions all month until October 25, 2025.
Here are some of the topics that you may find helpful to put together your thoughts:
- Mental health and caste
- Mental health and gender
- Mental health and religion
- Differences in mental health care due to caste/gender or both
- Personal experiences with discrimination in mental health care
- Need for an integrative approach for mental health
- Hindutva abuse and mental health
- Citizenship, legitimacy and fear
- Box trauma in educational institutions
- Identity -based mental health therapy
- Systemic negative effects and the need to defuse problems with mental health caused by social oppression
- Need for integrative support groups and secure rooms
- Identity and generation trauma
- Employ mental health care
- Women/queer/suppressed caste specialists in mental health care
This list is not exhaustive and you are welcome to write about topics within the topic that we may have missed here. Please note our submission guidelines before sending us your entries. You can send your submissions by e -mail to info@feminisminindia.com.
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