Nursing_Students, Murbad – Among young women enrolled in the nursing course in Murbad, Anubhuti Trust is taking the insistence on mental health with dignity to every corner. What began as a program is now organically evolving into a movement. Taking initiative from the lens of identity and justice, the idea that can be explained in a wide and meaningful way even within the sphere of health is MentalJustice. Even in an atmosphere that claims transformation, mental dignity continues to remain neglected. Social prestige travels directly through psychological and emotional dignity. Mental humiliation, pressure, exploitation, exclusion, ridicule, and systemic marginalisation repeatedly succeed in pushing communities outside the mainstream. In such an unsettling environment, groups that are thrown far to the margins are bound to struggle and waver. Exhaustion, anxiety, self-guilt, and even self-criminalisation become likely outcomes in such a manufactured atmosphere. With an awareness of constitutional commitment, we must stand in solidarity to build mental courage among the youth seated on the last benches. Wherever Adivasi, Nomadic and Denotified communities are present in large numbers, we are intentionally reaching there with such initiatives. The wounds of Nomadic and Denotified communities are especially old and deep — and at the very least, we must offer a collective healing touch.
