Recently, a powerful and impactful session on mentalhealth was conducted Anubhuti Trust with more then 90 Nursing students at Thane Government CivilHospital. The silence, fear, and codes deliberately constructed around mental health can be opened up through collectivedialogue. The complex and layered terrain that has been woven around this subject is deeply concerning. On the contrary, creating spaces for collective learning, shared experiences, capacity-building, and exploring alternatives opens up far greater possibilities. There is also a strong need to speak about the positive side of mental health. Expecting marginalized and excluded communities to adapt themselves to privileged and elite notions of mental health often becomes a mockery. This raises a critical question: do the prevailing narratives, concepts, and interventions in the mental health field carry a commitment to justice? Or is it essential to move beyond viewing mental health only at the level of the individual, illness, or patient, and instead expand it to a broader, structural framework? The movement is from the individual to the collective, and from the collective back to the individual. When we begin to understand the cultural, historical, political, economic, and intellectual contexts—and the forms of exploitation embedded within these journeys—along with the dominant pressures of caste, capitalism, patriarchy, and anti-feminist forces, the systems that produce mental oppression at both individual and collective levels start to reveal themselves. At this point, the significance of the Constitution and human rights—as guarantees of mental dignity—becomes far more visible and urgent. If these foundations are strengthened, then I believe the emotional and psychological collapse experienced by individuals, and the processes of rebuilding resilience around them, can be made far more stable and enduring.