Discuss depression, anxiety disorders openly so that people can seek help: Centre tells states theprint.in

Union Health Secretary Preeti Sudan lists nuclear families and social distancing in Covid season as reasons for aggravation of mental health problems. Sudan’s letter, addressed to chief secretaries, comes days after the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare released detailed guidelines on mental health during the Covid-19 pandemic, and after actor Sushant Singh Rajput’s apparent death by suicide triggered an outcry about the secrecy shrouding these issues.