Unspoken: Mental Health in the Indian Mind

By Ankit Bond

Every Indian family has a room nobody talks about.
Not a real room- a subject. A name, A year. The uncle who "had some trouble" in his twenties. The cousin who left college and came back six months later. The aunt who is "just like that," and always be "just like that."
This book is about that room.
India has over 150 million people who need mental health care. Fewer than 30 million are getting any. The gap between those two numbers is not a failure of medicine. It is a failure of language, of silence, of a culture that has spent generations finding every word for suffering except the ones that lead to help.
Drawing on the National Mental Health Survey, WHO data, and two decades of Indian psychiatric research, Unspoken traces that silence across ten chapters - through the words we lack, the stigma we carry, the families that absorb it, the men who cannot name it, the students it crushes, the faith it leans on, and the system meant to treat it.
This is not a self-help book. It is a honest account of where India's silence around mental health came from- and the first, unglamous steps towards breaking it.
Essential reading for anyone trying to understand the mind India does not talk about.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0H9556CJ6
• ISBN13: 9798187568116
• Release Date: July 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 156 Pages
• Weight: 0.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"