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Are “genes” and “medications” what decide a woman’s ultimate destiny when she is diagnosed with Schizophrenia or is there something about spirituality and women’s empowerment that can change you irrespective of genetic makeup by enabling you to tune-in with the cosmos when you refuse to accept defeat? Is Schizophrenia all about genetic pathology or genetic sensitivity that needs channeling?

How are self-advocacy and mental health interlinked? How does self-advocacy serve as a wonderful non-psychiatric alternative to help overcome mental health issues which are nothing other than reactions to the unjust things happening in the world outside? What is Schizophrenia really and how does one counter the same via a women’s empowerment cum self-advocacy approach?

Is psychiatry good or bad and what are the greys we see in this discipline? Can doctors really predict what will happen to an individual after a diagnosis is made? What are the epistemological flaws in the psychiatric discipline and how can they be countered? 






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