The tragedies of the mentally unstable wandering the country’s streets and the continuing domestic violence murders and suicides point to a mental health crisis that is largely being ignored by the government and private organisations, says the founder of the Guyana Foundation Supriya Bodden.
According to Bodden, those who are left to sleep on the streets, women who are beaten with hateful words before finally being stabbed to death by their angry spouses, and youth attempting to bury their depression in suicide are victims in the tragic stories among the underprivileged in society.
In her small office in Lamaha Gardens, Bodden sat with psychologist Latchman Narain recently to discuss