17th June 2020

‘MONON’ for Covid-19 positive patients.

President of the Society for Mental Health in LAMIC (SoMHiL), Mythili Hazarika along with Manjula Hazarika and Ananya Raj Kakoti(actor) raising awareness on stigma and mental health along with SoMHiLians Dr Bornali Das and Dr Shyamanta Das as initiators of ‘Monon’ on Dy365 ‘সংলাপ’.

Click here to watch facebook live of the talk show.

‘MONON’ was finally launched on 15 June 2020. Counsellors started connecting individually to the COVID-19 patients through 104. Anyone in distress, needing any kind of support for behaviour and emotional issues, to clarify any doubts regarding Covid-19 or any other issues related to psychosocial domains, to ensure whether one is healthy in true sense can call in 104 and ask for MONON team to address their issues. A safe space without judgement or labels for calling this number and confidential counselling sessions.

The President of the Society for Mental Health in LAMIC (SoMHiL), Mythili Hazarika was live on ‘My News NE’ on 14th June, 2020 and had a discussion on ‘MONON: Assam Cares’, Depression and the suicide of the actor Sushant Singh Rajput with reporter Mriganka Saikia.

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28th May, 2020

Mythili Hazarika, the President of the Society for Mental Health in LAMIC (SoMHiL) expressed her views on the importance of taking care of one’s mental health in these testing times on the newspaper ‘Amar Asam’.

On 20 May 2020, the President of the Society for Mental Health in LAMIC (SoMHiL), Mythili Hazarika participated in a talk show organised by Dy365 with an unique theme ‘Positive stories of CoVID-19’. She was also joined by a CoVID-19 positive survivor.

“Tele-mental health during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic” by Mythili Hazarika and Suresh Bada Math is the new Advance Online Publication of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®).

Click to access ojpas-2020.06.04_1.pdf

12th May, 2020

Healthy people are caged due to a virus, so, normal anxiety due to psychosocial factors is evident. Mythili Hazarika, the President of the Society for Mental Health in LAMIC (SoMHiL) defined the role of counselors, counseling psychologists, clinical psychologists, social workers, psychiatric social workers and psychiatrists in this pandemic and elaborated the same for the layman in a talk show organised by Prag news.

Dr.Nawadeep Basumatary, MBBS, GMCH, ASSAM made a video taking some pics from juniors, seniors of medical colleges and ASHA, ANM, MPW, both urban and rural health workers. He made this video as a tribute to Doctors, Nurses, ASHA baideu, ANM, MPW, SW and all the front line health workers and Corona Warriors of the nation.

“The cacophony of emotions in a mental health professional from the isolation ward during coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic” by Mythili Hazarika is the new Advance Online Publication of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®).

Click to access ojpas-2020.05.05.pdf