Calm India, a 4-week Cognitive
Behavioural Therapy (CBT) course on how to gain control of your mind
and build resilience to stress, anxiety and depression; has been launched to
address declining risk in India.
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy follows the
basic scientific principle –
“Your thoughts affect your emotions,
your emotions affect your behavior and your behavior affects your thoughts.”
Calm India’s training module contains 13
episodes ranging over 4 weeks, a set of 23 Audio books and a Reference deck
which is a beautiful graphical representation of the course content in a
concise format.
On announcing the launch Shashank Udupa,
Founder of Calm India says “In India, 93% of the population suffers from
chronic stress and well over 1/4th of the country suffers from depression. As a
business, if we were hiring therapists (or aggregating them), we’d still run
into the issue of the imbalance between number of therapists versus number of
mental health sufferers, so we’ve come up with a more scalable solution at a
price that makes it really affordable for all the people in remote areas of
India that neither have access nor have the purchasing power to spend on a
therapist. Our next step is to regionalize the content and have it dubbed into
most of the popular Indian Language.”
Shashank further focuses on the awareness
of mental health issues that is almost negligible in India. He says, “A
general session of a therapist costs a good amount of money and it takes a
minimum of 15 sessions to have an effect. Not all teenagers or working
professionals going through anxiety or depression can possibly afford the money
or the time to go to a therapist regularly. Housewives undergoing similar
issues also may not be as comfortable due to our society’s outlook. They can
easily buy our calm India course and regain their mental health without having
to head out for help and it’s also easy on their pocket. This platform being
priced at 399 rupees makes it affordable and private to seek out
better-thinking patterns. We want to give the masses a better alternative
solution that uses real science. We also have the links to our research on our
website for every point we’ve presented, if the viewer wants to dig deeper at
any point during or prior to the course.”
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