You’ve been helping people overcome depression for decades; what has been some of the most startling revelations that have surfaced about the Indian mind in course of your research?
The most glaring revelation has been that so many of my patients have undergone such negative experiences in their lives. For example, marital discord between parents, overly demanding parents, unjust comparison with siblings, being bullied at school by peers, or being affected by a depressed parent. These negative experiences don’t get processed on their own. In fact, they remain engrained in the human mind all the time and manifest in symptoms like low self-esteem, pain in the body, skin allergies, and depressive tendencies. In many cases, when we seek treatment for these unprocessed memories, the symptoms vanish.