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Mumbai graduates invite suicide survivors to share their stories
Updated On: 28 October, 2018 07:32 AM IST | Mumbai | Prutha Bhosle
City-based trio of fresh graduates invites suicide survivors to share their stories on Instagram

Shrishti Chouha
A World Health Organisation (WHO) report, released earlier this month (based on 2015-16 National Mental Health Survey), citing at least 6.5 percent of the Indian population suffering from serious forms of mental illness, has sent shockwaves across the country, with no discernible rural-urban differences. Mental health concerns remain some of the most misunderstood conditions in our times. In a flipside of the Netflix's popular series — 13 Reasons Why — tackling the pressing issue, three fresh graduates from the city have opened up a platform for survivors who choose to live a fruitful life instead.
The 21-year-olds, all former HR College students, have formed an Instagram page — Sleepless Musings — a family that has only grown in these past few weeks so that nobody suffers the fate of bizwoman Kate Spade or celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain. Shrishti Chouhan, who now works as the design executive at a luxury e-commerce firm and is behind the interactive illustrations on the page, says, "Initially, the concept of the page was to share one's deepest late-night thoughts. This evolved into a number of series on topics relevant today, with the recent one being on depression and suicide."
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