ft. Raashi Thakran | Mental Health Advocate | Activist | Survivor of Suicide Loss || #hashoutwithhana

Raashi is an engineering graduate, mental health advocate and social activist from Bangalore. As a changemaker from Change.org’s flagship program – called She Creates Change, she started a petition asking the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare to launch a National Helpline Number for Suicide Prevention in India which has emerged victorious with more than 3 lakh signatures. She runs a blog called - "All About Mental Health" where she writes on mental health and self-care.

In this episode, Raashi talks about the journey of her life and the lessons she learnt along the way. She is a Survivor of Suicide Loss, she lost her brother to suicide last year, he was only 18 years old.

Petition link (which is now a victory!!) - http://chng.it/Pr6KTDwH

Timestamp:

0:30 - Intro

1:36 - How is the journey of life has been so far?

4:10 - What made you become so vocal to tell the story of your brother?

6:25 - How did you cope with suicide loss? & What were the lessons you have learnt along?

8:10 - Content Creation on Mental Health & Suicide

10:20 - Mental Health taking a toll

11:53 - What do you look forward to and what keeps you going

12:35 - How do you see life and death

14:25 - What do you want to be remembered us

17:30 - Raashi in one word

18:50 - Outro

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