The Silent Emergency: How information overload, comparison and unfiltered tech are fueling a mental-health crisis — a true-story account with facts, analysis and steps to act
This article uses anonymized, composite stories (names and locations changed to protect privacy). The personal stories reflect real patterns reported across India; the statistics below are from national and international research and official reports. Write your view and appreciation on monalisuthar1210@gmail.com Opening: a world where everything is “available” — including our pain One evening, a 45-year-old woman (wife of a government official) sat in a well-furnished home and cried alone. Outside, the house looked fine; inside, she felt invisible, hollowed out by years of emotional loneliness and impossible standards to “perform” as a perfect wife and mother. On another day, an 18-year-old boy failed a crucial entrance exam. The comments he saw online told him he had “failed at life.” Within a few weeks his mood had collapsed and he could not ask for help. A 37-year-old woman from a rural village swallowed poison after years of domestic fights and emotional torture; in her village th...