I think in regards to India, the issue is a little more complex, and intertwined with social mores. This one sentence from the article is really important: > A

I think in regards to India, the issue is a little more complex, and intertwined with social mores. This one sentence from the article is really important: > According to Dr. K. Jyothirmayi, a Hyderabad-based psychiatrist, stigmas, such as the perceived impact of a mental health diagnosis on one’s marital prospects, often prevent young Indians from seeking treatment. From growing up in India, my view is that meditation and the general state of the mind has been taken seriously for, well, centuries. But move the focus towards anything with 'psych' or 'mental' in the title and people in India will shy away from it even if it is affordable or free. "Seeing a mental health counselor" is a recipe for considerable social stigma in India [1], not an empowering practice like it's perceived as in the United States. The solution to this is hard, and in my opinion not something that Facebook or their Indian subcontractors can accomplish. ----------- [1] I'm talking "All your relatives will refer to you as the crazy person" or "Your girlfriend's parents will call off the engagement" levels of stigma, not just "I don't feel comfortable talking about it in a bar" levels. Like a lot of other things, families with higher levels of income and education are sometimes an exception.