Dr. Purnima Nagaraja Mental Health Professional · 30+…

Dr. Purnima Nagaraja Mental Health Professional · 30+ Years of Practice When I ask a patient, "What do you like about yourself,?" the room goes quiet. Not thoughtful-quiet. Speechless-quiet. After three decades in mental health, that silence still stops me. Because it tells me everything about why they're sitting across from me. We have built a world that is very good at generating stress and very poor at teaching us how to carry it. I see it across every age group, children weighed down by the pressure to score 100, young professionals running on caffeine and graveyard shifts, homemakers who have been told their entire lives that sacrifice is a virtue. By the time they reach me, the body has already been keeping score for years. Stress is not just in your hea