Provide 5 Group Therapy sessions for up to 20 mentally ill long-stay residents - The Banyan, Chennai, Tamil Nadu - GiveIndia. Donate to charity and help better the lives of the poor of India.


Donation Details	Approx cost in(INR)

3 Support staff per session cost is Rs.240	1200.00

Therapist cost per session for a group of 20 is Rs.170	850.00

TOTAL INR	2050.00

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Success Story

Priya belonged to a well to do family and led a pampered, life thanks to an indulgent father until his demise. Priya belonged to a well to do family and led a pampered, life thanks to an indulgent father until his demise. Priya showed signs of a psychiatric disorder in her early twenties which either went unidentified or untreated. Instead, she was married and had two children. Over the years, her behaviour caused a lot of friction between the couple. Gradually her symptoms grew worse and her behaviour started to inflict considerable strain on her children, her husband and the extended family. Their finances were also under pressure as a result of her frequent splurges. Things turned worse day by day until Priya became homeless and very unwell - but misrepresented to be a calculating, avaricious woman. This with an educated family, who had access to resources and health care, and yet, did not wake up to mental illness or chose to ignore it, leaving Priya ,a victim in the process.

Rescued by the police, she entered The Banyan almost 12 years ago. With minimal support, clinical and social interventions she was well on her way to recovery. She was graceful and well adjusted and grew to be the matron or aunty as she was fondly called by all. Not one to get defeated by life, she made good use of her cooking skills and soon was an expert chef at The Banyan. Attempts to trace her family were made over a 10 year period; only to be squashed brutally by her siblings who violently opposed her re-entering their house or family. Her kids and her husband became almost an obsession and she left no stone unturned to keep herself abreast of happenings in their lives. Meanwhile aunty had now officially been anointed head of a self help group, Vizhudugal that comprised user survivors from different walks of life, all doing reasonably well, but with no family or space to call home.

A chance trip to Tanjore and her desire urged The Banyan team, to try one more time, this time by visiting her husband Raja. Raja was first wary and perhaps shocked; he broke down both out of anger and desperation and also of grief and loss. He now lived the life of a recluse. Time was then spent simply explaining the nature of bipolar and mental illness. We then got the two to speak. Aunty was shocked; 12 years of distance and then to hear the voice of the past, feel the love and the loss was tough, but handled with the same resilience that she always displayed through every tragedy. Raja made a visit to Kovalam where aunty lived and the two connected in a magical way and decided to move back in, together with the children who found a mother they had lost, years ago to mental illness. Priya is back where she belongs; with her children and husband and on her way to being a grandmother.

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