{"id":1809,"date":"2017-02-04T15:18:43","date_gmt":"2017-02-04T09:48:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.paisawapas.com\/student-stories\/?p=1809"},"modified":"2017-02-04T16:08:26","modified_gmt":"2017-02-04T10:38:26","slug":"ajay-rathore-helping-thousands-people-improving-mental-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paisawapas.com\/student-stories\/ajay-rathore-helping-thousands-people-improving-mental-health\/","title":{"rendered":"A Lawyer turned Entrepreneur & is helping thousands of people in improving their Mental Health"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ajay Singh Rathore,<\/strong>\u00a0a lawyer turned entrepreneur, currently working on his newest venture – the Happy Globe Vision Foundation<\/strong>. He is from Sonipat, Haryana & graduate of Jindal Global Law School. Ajay describes Happy Globe as \u201ca visionary social movement which aims to reach 4 million youngsters in 2017 to spread happiness and promote mental health awareness\u201d.<\/strong> He says that he wants to focus on \u201cbuilding an unprecedented everlasting relationship with the community, for creating a better world focused on our visionary cause.\u201d The Foundation is currently associated with around 400 associates and partners.<\/p>\n

1. What would you like to say about the stigma that is associated with mental health?<\/h3>\n

The stigma associated with mental health arises out of the false perception that people have regarding mental health. Society generally does not heed to signals of mental turmoil. If someone feels himself slipping into depression, he does not share it with his loved ones, if he does, his family tells him to \u201cstay strong\u201d and \u201cpunch through\u201d. Whereas in reality what he wants is a simple reassurance that \u201clife will get better and it is you who has the key to make it better\u201d. People always perceive that mental health is a hoax whereas in reality, it is a significant bane that thrives to destroy lives and it is bolstered by our ignorance.<\/p>\n

In the recent Shah Rukh Khan movie \u201cDear Zindagi\u201d, we see the perfect example of how mental turmoil tends to affect one\u2019s life and how imperative it is to deal with it.<\/p>\n

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2. Do you feel that taboos with mental health is more in small towns?<\/h3>\n

There is no certainty with which this question can be answered as there are more than one variables that come into play. In small towns where the education and exposure to ideas of mental health is significantly lower as compared to huge metropolitan and where many of the long prevalent taboos still persist, the conditions is well created for this taboo to thrive. However, due to the constant fight for subsistence, the person is deprived of even the most basic time to think about himself. While in cities a person has abundance of time to go over his mental status and therefore if they do feel themselves hitting rock bottom, they are aware of their status. Here in, lies the main difference between the two scenarios.<\/p>\n