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Gurugram based healthtech startup , Lissun is innovating technology solutions to remove the taboo around mental health

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Decluttering the chaotic mindspace

Gurugram based healthtech startup , Lissun is innovating technology solutions to remove the taboo around mental health

BY RAHUL KOUL

Mental health is yet not a subject that most people in India would like to discuss openly . The societal pressures and backlash play a huge role in fanning stigma around such health conditions . Ironically , even

those who try to find solutions too face the same dilemma as the stakeholders and investors wouldn ' t take their ideas seriously .
“ It took us three months to sign our first partner as the mere mention of mental health was taboo . We built a whole vocabulary of how to talk about mental health without using the words mental health and let people know how we can help their patients ,” says Tarun Gupta , Co-Founder of Gurugram based
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