My Story

It was the beginning of the year 1997 when I decided to retry passing my 2nd B.Sc. paramedical course in Speech and Hearing with a lot of planning when I got kicked off Mount Everest- so to say!!! My ignorant mother had felt intimidated all along because I questioned her regarding why she had grossly underprivileged me - her girl child, whereas she had given my brother a very special-warm upbringing. A rift had been created between me and my mother by my sadist brother who was exceedingly manipulative, horribly patriarchal and whose role model was Adolf Hitler. WHEN I PROTESTED against injustice, I was locked up at home without being sent to college for a whole year [when I desperately desired to study] based on the very wrong advice given to my mother by two so-called psychologists and a psychiatrist who knew nothing about mental health or my condition specifically.

I became chronically symptomatic due to incarceration for a whole year and decided to launch my fight for recovery. I challenged my psychiatrist and told her I wasn't a 'medical failure'. I said I would come back as a Women's Mental Health Specialist in exactly 10 years' time with a Bachelors, Masters and a PhD in Women's Mental Health and propound a new way to heal women with mental health issues instead of keeping them in sickness mode. In exactly 10 years I won the challenge.
I had converted both my psychiatrist and my mother into my greatest supporters. My fight was their fight and my victory became their greatest victory. I became India's First Recovery Specialist with a PhD in Women's Mental Health.

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How did I do that? How did I manage that? Read my book to get the answer. MY BOOK IS TITLED : “AGAINST ALL ODDS - CRACKING THE SCHIZOPHRENIA CODE!!!” BY DR. LAVANYA SESHASAYEE. In 2009 I was the only person from India who was funded completely and selected to attend THE GLOBAL MENTAL HEALTH SUMMIT held in GREECE, launched by the Movement for Global Mental Health. A few months later I completed International Fellowships from various other organizations and had travelled all across the world giving talks, presenting research papers and helping other people with mental health issues heal and promulgating the message of recovery. I, Dr. Lavanya Seshasayee am creating a new cadre of mental health RECOVERY SPECIALISTS and experiential experts [out of people undergoing mental health issues]. A New Leadership for the New World.

My Experience

Certifications
& Training

PhD - Women's Mental Health [ Fulbright Finalist ].
Trained in teaching self hypnosis to the PLMI [ Persons living with mental illnesses ] by Dr. Usha Rao.
Movement for Global Mental Health Fellow.
Bapu Trust Fellow.
Banyan Academy for Leadership in Mental Health Fellow [ BALM Fellow ].
Program Manager at The Grameena Abhyudaya Seva Samsthe [A very popular rural NGO In Doddaballapur]

Awards &
Achievements

BBC World Radio Interviewee
Distinguished Author Who's Won The National India Integrated Achiever's Award For being an author and for making outstanding social contributions to the field Of Mental Health
Aesthetics Global Award For Writing An Incredible Autobiography
Written A Book Titled "Against All Odds: Rising Above Schizophrenia: Cracking The Schizophrenia Code.”
Distinguished Speaker At INTAR [Liverpool]
Distinguished Speaker At Suicide Prevention Australia [Brisbane]
Distinguished Speaker At Kings College London
VOICES FELLOW At the National University of Ireland - Galway [NUIG]
Was A National Scholarship Holder And Rank Holder In 10th Standard.

Seminars
& Events

CBM- disability inclusive livelihood training workshop.
'trans asian alliance on transforming communities for inclusion of persons with psychosocial disabilities' (TCI - ASIA).
'social prescribing in mental health and development practice'.
'leadership in mental health'
'sustainable development for global action - the case for investing in mental health - global mental health forum'
'Employment Towards Empowerment for Persons With Mental Health Issues'
The Human Rights Law Network And The Equal Rights Trust of UK
Visions Conference Organized By The NAAJMI And The Asoka Foundation
 Balvant Parekh Center For General Semantics And Other Human Sciences And The IIT - [Indian Institute Of Technology] - GANDHINAGAR
[International Disability Alliance] IDA Training