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Every August, the tricolour goes up on balconies, schools sing the same songs they’ve sung for decades, and the country pauses to remember what it took to become free. It’s a good moment to ask an uncomfortable question: for millions of Indians, what would azaadi from mental illness or addiction actually look like and how far are we from it?

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Priya remembers the exact week her husband came back from a 90-day treatment programme. She had spent three years bracing for his drinking. Now she found herself bracing for something she hadn’t expected at all: a sober husband she barely knew how to talk to.

“I thought getting him sober was the hard part,” she said. “Nobody told me that was just the...

Rohan is 29. He hasn’t touched alcohol in three years, and he still remembers the exact moment he decided to stop; standing in his kitchen at 11 pm, glass in hand, realising he was pouring himself the same drink, at the same hour, with the same silence around him, that his father used to pour every night of Rohan’s childhood.

He wasn’t trying to...

A wife pays off her husband’s bar tab so his employer doesn’t find out. A mother wakes up at 3 a.m. to let her son back into the house, again, because she can’t stand the thought of him on the street. A sister tells relatives her brother has “the flu” for the third time this year.

Every one of these acts comes from love. None of them help.

The client approached Veda Rehabilitation and Wellness with complaints of persistent headaches, increasing emotional distress, confusion regarding her sense of self, social withdrawal, and a growing preoccupation with ph...