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October 2019
Lodge Bonhomie No. 435
Let's UnPuzzle Each Other: - A Mental Health Fest
A one of a kind Mental Health Fest was organized by Lodge
Bonhomie and the Mental Health Education organization
PSY-Fi: For a Healthy Mind and it's people's branch
organization, The Jigsaw Company in collaboration with the
Amrit Masonic Spastic School Society organised a workshop
on the lawns of Freemasons Hall.
Mental health - a term which encompasses a power to silence
everyone and get them into hush hush conversations right
away. Whether it's calling someone crazy or insulting them by
calling them names, or threatening a child on the pretext of
sending them to mental asylum, while all they did was
exercise their choice and indulge in an act which was different
from the common parlance meaning of the word 'normal'.
These are just few of the common examples when we call out
The Mental Health Fest was inaugurated by the Chief Guest, the term - Mental Health.
R W Bro. A. K. Sharma and the Guest of Honour, Air Marshall
R. K. Jolly PVSM VM VSM(Retd.) who enumerated in their
respective speeches about the necessity of initiating a talk on
this topic with and among people of all age groups and how
this subject of Mental Health is gaining prominence and
relevance in every professional as well as personal unit of life.
To ponder upon the same, the lack of education and
awareness among the people and the mental health crisis
gaining prominence in the millennial generation, the recital
of mental health is just limited to issues or problems. Due to
this lack of awareness, for the longest time, businesses,
media houses, and money minters got a chance to tune the
definition of mental health in every way suitable so as to
The Mental Health Fest was an attempt that aimed to explore
sensationalize the issue which led to the continuance of
copious aspects of mental health literacy and awareness
among public through widely spread creative means. stigmas, stereotypes and taboos around the subject.
A correction of this image of Mental health is only possible
The primary objective of the Mental Health Fest was to
provide people a platform to showcase their talents in
different creative fields, along with an educative element by
organising a Panel Discussion of prominent people from the
field of mental health to speak around the topic of Mental
Health Education.