00:00It's a God-given illness to her, that is mostly genetic illness or in some time environment
00:09or some incident in childhood.
00:12So that is none of her fault or her fault.
00:16So why should we be ashamed of it or why should we hide it?
00:23H.R. has very few symptoms left, what we call residual symptoms.
00:37She is normal as such, but she is not functional.
00:43I mean, she cannot take her own decisions and she has anxiety levels, those kind of things.
00:53But typical symptoms of paranoid schizophrenia are not there.
01:00She was going to Wellham School in Garadun and when she was in her 12th,
01:06at that time it happened, the first episode happened at that time.
01:12I was in my office in World Trade Center and then I got a call from the principal that
01:19you come, your daughter is not well.
01:22So I rushed to Deradun, had a meeting with the principal and the teachers,
01:28talked about the possible reasons and then the prescription which I saw
01:37that paranoid schizophrenia was stated there then.
01:42But what is schizophrenia, I didn't know at that time.
01:45Nor we knew that it is a lifelong problem.
01:48So that medicines helped her and her symptoms went away.
01:57And she could do her exam or some stiffness in hand was there because of her side effects of the medicines.
02:08At that time the first generation medicines, so they had severe side effects.
02:12So that is how we came to know about her illness.
02:17But the series of illness was not known to us.
02:22We came to know about it later gradually.
02:26We were hoping that she would be alright after treatment.
02:30Now I never considered it a stigma.
02:33My wife had some reservations in sharing this her illness with others.
02:42But I always believed that as there is a physical illness, there is a mental illness.
02:49So I didn't hide it.
02:50I was not boasting about it also.
02:52I was going to everybody and telling them that my daughter has schizophrenia.
02:57But at that same time someone asked.
03:00And I would tell them that yes, she has this illness.
03:04Maybe I myself wouldn't believe that there is anything wrong.
03:09As such we have not done any crime.
03:12There is no theft, no robbery.
03:14It is a God-given illness to her.
03:17It is mostly genetic illness or sometimes an environment or some incident in childhood.
03:26So that is none of her fault or her fault.
03:30So why should we be ashamed of it or why should we hide it?
03:36Sometimes some regret also is there that my child her whole life is spoiled.
03:43We never thought of marrying her because we knew that marriage would be a failure.
03:52In our institution also in the beginning people were hiding.
03:57When some activity was to be filmed then they were saying take pictures only from the back.
04:05Not from the face you want to be seen.
04:08This eye is nothing there.
04:10Face can be shown.
04:11We are not using it for commercial purposes.
04:14We are using it for educational purposes.
04:17To create more awareness about it.
04:19And in fact now I devised a form, admission form.
04:24So in that we take a statement from the parents and from the patient that we have no objection to any film or picture taken for educational purposes or for creating awareness.
04:46So that is how I have done that in my life.
04:55Sometimes I wonder and in fact most of the parents wonder why I have to suffer like this.
05:05But otherwise it's a part of life and I am involved in helping others now which gives me a lot of satisfaction.
05:18In the last 10-15 years I have the sense of fulfillment because I am not looking after my daughter but I am looking after and helping thousands of families who have similar problems.
05:40So that is very satisfying.
05:43You see somebody's pain and suffering if you can reduce.
05:47So it gives a lot of satisfaction.
05:51And sharing is healing they say.
05:55And see what you see.
05:56Bye.
05:57Yeah, I will.
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06:17I know now.
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