Manas Foundation

Manas Foundation Caring For A Beautiful Mind... Starting from a two-room centre, Manas is now housed in a four storied building in Delhi.

Manas Foundation was founded in the year 2000 by a group of mental health professionals in response to their experience with the need for mental healthcare in the society. Coming from the fields of Clinical Psychology and Psychiatry, we shared the dream of rendering comprehensive psychological and educational services under one roof. We are a registered trust and the past few years have seen Manas contributing more to the community and training, while maintaining our commitment to multidisciplinary clinical services. Our mission statement is to generate awareness and make psychological services available to as many people as possible. We work with all segments of the population like women, elderly, children and adolescents as well as the marginalized groups, to understand their emotional stressors and to strengthen their coping mechanism. In this effort, we provide our expertise both through our own centre and in collaboration with like-minded organizations, already active within the community. To this end, we have built partnerships with government organizations and civil society groups to integrate the mental health component into their critical interventions. We train NGO professionals in building their psychological skills and supporting them in setting up community-based counseling centers. Additionally we are developing capacities of communities and training barefoot mental health professionals especially in rural areas where access to mental health services is unavailable. Thus, we train professionals by imparting hands on experience in psychological skills and paraprofessionals by hand holding and education; this has greatly enhanced our reach and capabilities in our efforts to achieve our goals.

✨ “Going to therapy should be as normal as visiting a doctor when you have a cold or flu.” – Pankaj TripathiIn many plac...
19/12/2025

✨ “Going to therapy should be as normal as visiting a doctor when you have a cold or flu.” – Pankaj Tripathi

In many places, mental health is still treated like a taboo, but seeking help for mental health is not a weakness.

Just like physical health, therapy, counselling, and emotional wellbeing support are important for healing.

Open mental health conversations, normalising therapy, and breaking stigma can help more people access the support they need. 💛

Let’s make mental health care a normal part of life.

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130+ years later, we're STILL learning the lessons Holmes tried to teach us.Men still struggle to talk about:💭 Depressio...
17/12/2025

130+ years later, we're STILL learning the lessons Holmes tried to teach us.

Men still struggle to talk about:
💭 Depression and anxiety
💭 Needing emotional support
💭 Being "different"
💭 Asking for help

The su***de rate for men is 3-4x higher than for women. Men are less likely to seek therapy. We're still fighting the stigma that vulnerability = weakness.
But Holmes showed us a different way.

He wasn't a perfect stoic hero. He was messy, complicated, and deeply human. His struggles didn't make him less brilliant — they made him MORE real.
And Watson showed us that being there for someone, without judgment, can literally save lives.

Maybe it's time we take these 19th-century lessons to heart.

If you're struggling: It's okay to not be okay. It's okay to need people. Your mind is not your enemy, even when it feels like it.

You're not alone. You never were.

What did this series teach you about mental health? Drop a comment below 💙



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So why did Arthur Conan Doyle write Holmes this way?Doyle was a doctor. He saw real suffering — including men who couldn...
15/12/2025

So why did Arthur Conan Doyle write Holmes this way?

Doyle was a doctor. He saw real suffering — including men who couldn't express it. The Victorian era's rigid masculinity was literally killing men through silence.
By making his hero struggle with:

Depression
Substance use
Social difficulties
The need for friendship
..Doyle gave readers permission to see these as HUMAN experiences, not moral failures.
Holmes could be brilliant AND broken.
Strong AND struggling.
Independent AND needing others.

The stories said: "Even the greatest minds have dark days. Even heroes need help."

For Victorian men reading these stories in secret, seeing themselves in Holmes? That might have been the first time they felt less alone.

Tomorrow: What Holmes teaches us NOW 🎯



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The term "neurodivergent" didn't exist in 1887.But reading Holmes now? The signs are everywhere:🧩 Struggles with social ...
13/12/2025

The term "neurodivergent" didn't exist in 1887.
But reading Holmes now? The signs are everywhere:

🧩 Struggles with social norms and small talk
🧩 Intense, narrow interests (crime, chemistry, to***co ash)
🧩 All-or-nothing engagement (hyperfocus or complete shutdown)
🧩 Difficulty with emotions and relationships
🧩 Pattern recognition as a superpower

Some modern readers see autism. Others see ADHD. Many see depression and anxiety.

What matters is this: Doyle created a hero who was "different" — and made that difference his STRENGTH, not something to hide.

In Victorian society that demanded conformity, especially from men, this was quietly revolutionary.
Tomorrow: Why this still matters today 💭



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Dr. John Watson wasn't just Sherlock's sidekick.He was his emotional anchor. His lifeline. The person who kept him alive...
11/12/2025

Dr. John Watson wasn't just Sherlock's sidekick.
He was his emotional anchor. His lifeline. The person who kept him alive.

Watson did something radical for Victorian masculinity:
✨ He worried openly about his friend's wellbeing
✨ He stayed through the dark moods and substance use
✨ He offered companionship without judgment
✨ He created a safe space for vulnerability

"I am lost without my Boswell," Holmes admits — acknowledging he NEEDS Watson.

In an era when male friendship meant drinking at clubs and talking about hunting, Doyle showed us two men who genuinely cared for each other's mental and physical health.

Watson didn't "fix" Holmes. He just showed up. Consistently. That's what made the difference.

This is the model of male friendship we're still learning to embrace. Holmes and Watson were doing emotional support in 1887.

Tomorrow: Was Holmes neurodivergent? 🧩



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We’re HiringPosition: Trainer/Facilitator – Gender & Safe Transportation for Women📍 Location: Punjab, Amritsar Who Can A...
11/12/2025

We’re Hiring

Position: Trainer/Facilitator – Gender & Safe Transportation for Women

📍 Location: Punjab, Amritsar

Who Can Apply?

✅ Postgraduates in Psychology / Social Work with Mental Health Orientation

✅ Fluent in Punjabi & English

✅ Minimum 1 year of experience in a similar role OR passionate freshers eager to make a difference

Join Manas Foundation in spreading awareness about mental health! 🚍✨

📩 Send your resume & cover letter to manas.foundation.jobs@gmail.com

🌐 Visit www.manasfoundation.org.in or call +91 8209688277 / 011-41708517 for more details.



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Here's where it gets controversial.When Holmes wasn't working, he used co***ne. Not recreationally — as self-medication ...
10/12/2025

Here's where it gets controversial.
When Holmes wasn't working, he used co***ne. Not recreationally — as self-medication for his depression.

Watson (a doctor) was horrified: "Which is it today? Morphine or co***ne?" he asks in one story. He constantly worried about Holmes destroying his "splendid" mind.

Doyle wasn't glorifying substance use. He was showing what men did when they had no language for mental health, no therapy, no support systems. Holmes used drugs to quiet the unbearable noise in his head between cases.

This was 1887. Conan Doyle was writing about self-medication, addiction risk, and a friend's desperate concern — themes we STILL struggle to discuss openly about men's mental health today.

The Victorian era didn't talk about men's feelings. So men found other ways to cope.



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My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work." — Sherlock HolmesBetween cases, Holmes didn't just relax....
09/12/2025

My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work." — Sherlock Holmes

Between cases, Holmes didn't just relax. He collapsed.
He'd lie on his sofa for DAYS, barely eating, smoking pipe after pipe, staring at the ceiling. Watson describes him as falling into "black moods" and becoming "listless and despondent."

This was Victorian England — men were supposed to be stoic, unemotional, always productive. But Doyle showed his hero experiencing what we now recognize as depression.

Holmes needed purpose to function. Without stimulation, his brilliant mind became his prison. Sound familiar to anyone?

The genius detective taught us something profound: even the strongest minds need meaning, and struggling doesn't make you weak.

Tomorrow: How Holmes tried to escape these moods (and why Watson was terrified)

You know Sherlock Holmes as the world's greatest detective. But did you know he was one of literature's first honest por...
08/12/2025

You know Sherlock Holmes as the world's greatest detective. But did you know he was one of literature's first honest portrayals of men's mental health struggles?

In 1887, Arthur Conan Doyle created something radical: a male hero who was brilliant... and broken. A man who solved impossible cases but couldn't escape his own mind.

Starting tomorrow, I'm diving into how these 130-year-old stories were quietly revolutionary in showing male vulnerability. 🧠🔍

This isn't just about a fictional detective. It's about how we've talked (or didn't talk) about men's mental health for over a century.

📍Stay tuned.

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