‘Nobody Showed Interest in My Medical Career.’ Meet Sarada Menon, India’s First Female Psychiatrist
“My family was conservative. They didn’t want ladies to study.”
“My family was conservative. They didn’t want ladies to study.”
“This job came with a lot of emotional stress [because of] student behaviour issues.”
“After a few sessions of talking through my issues, my attacks became less frequent, and over time, they disappeared completely.”
“You feel an intense urge to game which you cannot substitute with anything else.”
“My brain shuts down every function except suffering.”
“You have a 19% higher likelihood of being in better mental health [after every decade.]”
“In the years when mental illness swooped me up with its ugly claws, medication helped regulate my brain’s responses to stressors.”
“The older you get…the harder you have to work at being fit.”
“I feel like I’m blanking out and my brain grasps things at a slower rate.”