Hi! I am Anvita, an engineering graduate, a mental health advocate, and a Fellow at Change.org India from Bangalore.
I discovered my passion for psychology and mental health after having lost my best friend to suicide and having my own lived experience with mental illness. Since then, a lot of my free time has been dedicated to reading up on the status quo around mental health – through both scientific research and reading survivors’ stories – to gain background on the gaps that can be filled. After seeing firsthand the debilitating effects that mental illness can have on the best of us, I realized that the first thing that needed to be changed was the dialogue surrounding it. And that was where the idea of Patronus was born.
With Patronus, I hope to do my small bit towards creating a world where mental health is not just a hushed conversation behind closed doors.
