Welcome to Indian Family Therapy

Welcome to Indian family therapy. Where everyone has a PhD in your life problems, but no one has a license to practice.

In most of the familys, as soon as somebody says they are "feeling low", the responses will be

- Dad: "Start waking up at 5 AM, everything will be fine"
- Mom: "It's because you eat too much outside food"
- Uncle: "Marriage will solve all your problems"
- Aunty: "It's that job, leave it"
- Grandma: "Pray more, beta"

As part of running a mental health company, I see this pattern everywhere. We've outsourced our emotional well-being to family WhatsApp groups where uncles share depression memes and aunties forward "positive thinking" quotes.

Don't get me wrong. Family support matters. But there's a difference between offering a shoulder to cry on and performing open-heart surgery on someone's mental health.

Your mental health isn't broken because you moved cities, choose career over marriage, or stopped touching elders' feet daily. Sometimes brains just need fixing, like any other organ.

I agree that Love & care are real, and the intention is pure. But good intentions with bad execution can damage more than indifference. Family can hold space for your pain. But they can't be your entire healing journey.

Professional help isn't betraying your family. It's protecting them from being responsible for fixing something they don't understand.