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“He’ll get help when he’s ready. He needs to hit rock bottom first.” It’s one of the most commonly repeated pieces of advice in addiction, passed between families, sometimes even offered by well-meaning friends who’ve seen it in a film or heard it from someone else’s story. It sounds like hard-earned wisdom. It’s actually one of the more damaging 

There’s a phrase that shapes more decisions in Indian households than almost anything else: log kya kahenge. What will people say. It decides which relative gets told and which one doesn’t. It decides whether a family confronts a problem head-on or quietly manages it for years so nobody outside the house has to know. And when the problem is addiction, that...

There’s a sentence that gets repeated across Indian households, often by people trying to be careful, trying to do the right thing: don’t ask him if he’s thinking about ending his life, you’ll put the idea in his head. It sounds like caution. It’s actually one of the most dangerous myths in Indian mental health, because it convinces well-meaning people to ...

“That happens in other families, not ours.” It’s one of the most common sentences we hear at Veda Rehabilitation and wellness, usually from someone whose son has an MBA, or whose father runs a successful practice, or whose sister just made partner. The assumption underneath it is simple: addiction is something that happens to people without opportunities, ...

Picture someone walking into a therapist’s office in India and there’s a good chance your mind still goes to crisis. Someone in a breakdown. Someone whose family finally “gave in” and sent them. That image has been the default for decades. It’s also increasingly out of date.

The person actually booking a therapy session in India today is more likely...