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Sunil's journey from engineering student to homelessness reveals the impact of mental health on families. Depression destroyed his software career when tasks took hours instead of minutes. OCD made him fear gas stoves, forcing the family to use induction cooking. His wife developed schizophrenia but remains unaware. From 2015 to 2022, they lived on the streets, earning Rs 200-400 daily marketing cards. They sold jewellery, missed family weddings, and faced village shame. Their son developed social anxiety. His brother graduated from IIT BHU while Sunil struggled. Now at The Banyan, they receive treatment, stability, and hope for their son's engineering future.

00:00 – 00:27 | The Storm in My Mind
00:27 – 00:52 | Early Signs and Silence
00:52 – 01:29 | Marriage and Discovery
01:29 – 01:57 | Beliefs and Denial
01:57 – 02:24 | Seven Years Without a Home
02:29 – 03:04 | The Lockdown Struggle
03:04 – 03:53 | The Tweet That Saved Us
03:53 – 04:16 | Back on Track

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Transcript
00:00In my brain, I had a very negative thoughts.
00:03Depressing thoughts.
00:06You can't do anything. You can't do anything.
00:10You don't have to do anything.
00:12You don't have to live in a day.
00:14I had a very negative thoughts.
00:16And my brain never had to be able to calm down.
00:20I had to be able to calm down.
00:23I had to be able to calm down.
00:25And I had OCD.
00:27In 1994, when I was the first year,
00:33I didn't feel like reading a lot.
00:36I had to be able to calm down.
00:39I didn't know that there was a mental illness.
00:42But then, I was married.
00:44I didn't even know that there was a mental illness.
00:48But after that, I was married.
00:52I was married in Bangalore.
00:56I was married in Bangalore.
00:58I was married in Bangalore.
00:59I was married in Bangalore.
01:00Because I didn't feel good at the mental illness.
01:05And I had a little stammering.
01:08So, I didn't get a good job.
01:11Then, I got a small job.
01:13It was a low level job.
01:16I was married in Bangalore.
01:17It was a big job.
01:18I didn't know any other things.
01:19But sometimes, there was a big change in the day.
01:20It was a big change in the day.
01:23Meanwhile, it just got a little one.
01:24In the day I had a little sold.
01:25They had to be able to save the mental illness.
01:28They had to be able to clean the fight.
01:29I was going away two or three times.
01:30I was watching them.
01:33I saw some things that I would never say,
01:37but I would never get away.
01:40He was a kid, he was a tantric,
01:44so we could also talk about it.
01:47The tantric was in fact, his father had also had the belief.
01:52I would not believe in them.
01:55Today, this is not the mental illness.
01:58We were homeless from 2015 to 2021.
02:02Sometimes we were living in the hospital, sometimes we were living in the railway station, sometimes we were living in the bus stand.
02:09My girl was expired.
02:12When we were homeless, it was a problem with her.
02:16We didn't have treatment for treatment.
02:18We didn't see her in the hospital.
02:21She didn't stay alive.
02:24She said, Daddy, my life is over.
02:29But when it was a lockdown, we didn't know how to do marketing.
02:35We had a fundraiser in Milapu.
02:39We only contact her with her.
02:43In her bio, there was a mental illness.
02:47By chance, I'm talking about luck.
02:53Madam, I tweeted about it.
02:56Madam, there is a lockdown.
02:58There is no income.
03:00Please give us a donation.
03:02For our fundraisers.
03:04At that time, we didn't know if it was a mental health.
03:08Madam, this is an NGO's founder.
03:11I didn't know anything.
03:13Madam, I tweeted about it.
03:15I tweeted about it.
03:165 minutes later, she tweeted about it.
03:18My team member will contact you.
03:21After that, it was 10 o'clock.
03:25After that, I asked her number to ask her number.
03:27I gave her number to the tweet.
03:29Then, at 10 o'clock, I called her.
03:31I told her.
03:33She said, go, go.
03:35I am not going to get into it.
03:38At this time, we were scared of coming.
03:40At the start, we were scared of coming.
03:42Because it is a new city, no idea.
03:44The people have convinced them.
03:47We would never leave.
03:49If we were there, then we would leave.
03:53Then, we would go to that.
03:54And then, we would leave here.
03:55By the way, we had to come to that.
03:57We were lucky to come.
03:59If we don't come, then we wouldn't have life.
04:014 years.
04:02and the whole life is on track.
04:06They don't go to the village,
04:07they don't want to go to the village,
04:09they don't want to go to the village,
04:10so they don't want to go there.
04:12There are a lot of problems,
04:14but everyone will not be able to reach here.
04:16My Twitter helped me.
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