{"id":145080,"date":"2025-08-14T12:39:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T12:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/145080\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T12:39:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T12:39:10","slug":"every-day-i-pray-for-love-finding-freedom-from-mental-illness-stigma-chinki-sinha-vandana-gopikumar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/145080\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Every Day I Pray for Love&#8221;: Finding Freedom From Mental Illness Stigma | Chinki Sinha, Vandana\u00a0Gopikumar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"story-slug\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outlookindia.com\/mental-health\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mental Health<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"subcap-story\">\n              When Outlook Editor Chinki Sinha was asked, \u201cWhy this issue on Freedom from Stigma of Mental Illness?\u201d she said, \u201cWe want to show, not tell. We want people to write their own stories, that is also freedom, when you have no shame about what happened to you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Some of the questions this Independence Day issue has raised, Dr. Vandana Gopikumar, the co-founder of The Banyan, says, \u201ccame from a real place \u2014 and I think that\u2019s what you need, not the jargon, not the mystifications. Many of the articles are based on lived experience.\u201d\n            <\/p>\n<p>          <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outlookindia.com\/author\/outlook-news-desk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/p>\n<p>\n              Outlook News Desk\n            <\/p>\n<p>          <\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n            Updated on: 14 August 2025 1:12 pm\n          <\/p>\n<p>\n            Updated on: 14 August 2025 1:12 pm\n          <\/p>\n<p>      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaNrF3v0AgWLA6OnJH0R\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" name=\"follow on whatsapp\"><br \/>\n        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/follow_whatsapp.png\" alt=\"follow on whatsapp\" width=\"130px\" height=\"39px\"\/><br \/>\n      <\/a><\/p>\n<p>      <a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/publications\/CAAqBwgKMIHT8Aowuq27Ag?ceid=IN:en&amp;oc=3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" name=\"follow on google news\"><br \/>\n        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/new_follow_google_news.png\" alt=\"follow on google news\" width=\"130px\" height=\"39px\"\/><br \/>\n      <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mental Health When Outlook Editor Chinki Sinha was asked, \u201cWhy this issue on Freedom from Stigma of Mental&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":145081,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[86009,54246,86010,6017,86016,86022,210,86011,517,86023,2649,86008,86019,86021,86020,2642,4166,86014,86017,86018,86024,1185,86015,67,132,68,86013,86012],"class_list":{"0":"post-145080","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-are-mental-health-issue-genetic","9":"tag-bipolar-disorder","10":"tag-can-mental-health-issues-be-cured","11":"tag-depression","12":"tag-dr-vandana-gopikumar-on-mental-health","13":"tag-freedom-from-stigma","14":"tag-health","15":"tag-how-mental-health-affects-physical-health","16":"tag-mental-health","17":"tag-mental-health-and-society","18":"tag-mental-health-awareness","19":"tag-mental-health-awarenss","20":"tag-mental-health-conversations","21":"tag-mental-health-in-india","22":"tag-mental-health-stories","23":"tag-mental-health-support","24":"tag-mental-illness","25":"tag-outlook-discussion-with-dr-vandana-gopikumar","26":"tag-outlook-editor-chinki-sinha-on-mental-health","27":"tag-outlook-independence-day-issue","28":"tag-role-of-community-in-mental-health","29":"tag-schizophrenia","30":"tag-the-banyan-co-founder-dr-vandana-gopikumar","31":"tag-united-states","32":"tag-unitedstates","33":"tag-us","34":"tag-which-mental-health-disorder-is-most-common","35":"tag-why-mental-health-is-important"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145080\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}