Mental health takes the lead of the high pace of today. Social media, that weak connection creator, turned into a fantastic way of producing understanding, dispelling stigma, and much-needed help. Here are 10 inspiring Indian Instagram accounts paving the way in the campaign for mental health awareness and advocacy, each uniquely adding its tuppence to the well-being conversation around mental health:.

1. The Friendly Couch 

Divija Bhasin is a very popular mental health advocate who, with the edge of humor and relatability, addresses serious mental issues. Her content fuses education with entertainment to provide a serious topic that cannot be approached otherwise. In very engaging posts, she invites open discussion, thus gradually making her followers less of an isolated struggle.

2. Saloni Gupta

Sonali Gupta shares scientific facts about various mental illnesses. Her posts are informative and inspirational with anecdotes and tips. She especially focuses on holistic methods to achieve mental health, highlighting the mind-body connection.

3. Divija Bhasin

Divija Bhasin's account is one of normalization towards therapy and seeking mental health. Honest and funny, therapy becomes something a bit more relatable and less intimidating for her audience as she nudges them toward considering good choices about mental health support.

4. Sarah Crosby

Sarah Crosby is a therapist, bookworm, author. She shares her experiences with body positivity and mental health tips. She has really beautiful content that brings both vulnerability and strength to life, motivating followers to feel and empower themselves on their journey to mental health.

5. The Depression Project 

It brings awareness about depression with advocacy for the ones suffering from this disease. The account offers a safe space where one can put out the struggles, meet other people who understand, and provide healing and strength resources.

6. Mind Voyage

This Indian mental health awareness and therapy counseling service provides information, tips, and resources to the public in navigating their journey in their mental health. Content on Mind Voyage urges people to take seriously their mental wellbeing and help from professionals.

7. Here Comes The Sun

It has shown many cases of mental illness like anxiety, depression, and stress conditions. They provide practical management tips for those conditions and therefore improve your well-being to make education on mental health accessible and relatable.

8. Dr Meghna Singhal

She creates mental health-related content and has more than 100k followers. Her priority and main focus remains on helping couples who deal with some issues in the marriages or relationships. Moreover, sometimes, she also guides her fans on self-care and the perfect ways to raise their kids. She blogs and posts about the crazily insane parts of raising kids but keeping their mental well-being in mind. Her efforts are aimed at guiding parents to raise emotionally intelligent children.

9. Happy Lab  (Vandana Subramanian)

This is an account that commits to mental health awareness and advocacy in India. It gives plenty of information on several mental health conditions, dispels myths, and tries to promote help-seeking behaviour. Their posts create a better-informed and supportive environment for conversations about mental health. 

10. Gaur Gopal Das

The mental peace and harmony spiritual influencer and motivational speaker, Gaur Gopal Das emphasises regularly in his lectures by relating them to the attainment of sound mental wellbeing-a whole approach toward it -that calls for balance.

These Instagram accounts break the taboo surrounding mental health problems in India by inspiring everyone else to take care of themselves mentally by giving positive support and information and that way creates an overall community for people who battle through mental health.