We have taught women how to be good daughters, obedient daughters-in-law, sacrificing wives, responsible mothers and respectable members of society. But who teaches them how to be emotionally well? Who tells them that they are allowed to say no? We rarely ask these questions because we have normalised a dangerous idea that a good woman is one who keeps everyone happy, even at the cost of her own happiness. “Log Kya Kahenge?” — The Four Words That Control Women's Li

Women’s mental health is not a “soft issue.” It is structural. It is a societal mirror and right now, that mirror reflects something deeply uncomfortable: we have normalized women’s silent suffering. For generations, women have been taught to endure, to adjust, to prioritise everyone else’s needs before their own. Somewhere between being a daughter, wife, daughter-in-law, mother, and professional, a woman’s emotional world is pushed to the margins, not because it is unimpor