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| Founded | 2018 |
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Area served | India |
Key people | Paras Sharma and Rashi Vidyasagar |
| Website | alternativestory |
The Alternative Story is an Indian mental health collective which provides counselling services to individuals and organisations based in Bengaluru. [1] It aims to provide mental health services that are affordable, [2] intersectional feminist, trauma-informed, kink-aware, queer-affirmative and caste aware. [3] [4] [5] [6]
The group was founded in 2018 by Paras Sharma [7] and Rashi Vidyasagar. [8] Sharma had produced a podcast, also called The Alternative Story, from 2018. [9] In 2022, The Alternative Story was one of 40 national and international organisations to collaborate with Jindal School of Psychology and Counselling in their degree course to provide work placements. [10]
During the COVID-19 pandemic, counsellors from the group spoke about the increased needs for their services, and the mental health impacts of the lockdowns and other pandemic measures [11] [12] as well as anxiety when measures were lifted. [13] [14] Members of the Alternative Story have spoken about the impact on people in India and the lack of robust mental health infrastructure. [15] [16]
The organisation provides the following services:
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