Yes, their behaviour changes and they aren’t people we knew but they are in trouble. They are confused, angry, upset and crying all the time because their mind goes out of their control no matter how hard they try.

Scripted or not, Oviya represented what a person with mental illness usually goes through and how the society never tries to understand them. Depression and mental illness is a serious issue, folks. It very much exists and it is as dangerous to health as cancer is – it leads a person to kill oneself if at that final stage.

It is important for us, as a society to inculcate and educate those around us about this and let them know that this is serious and tomorrow this could affect you as well!

It was absolutely low of the show to have created a task demeaning mental illness making it all the more worse for the viewers to judge.

To quote Dr. Sivabalan’s statement to the News minute lastly, “We always think of mental illness in the extreme. We believe that these patients are dangerous or we make fun of them. This is how they are portrayed in the mainstream. We’ve been talking about mental health for the last 200 years. Nobody is immune to mental illnesses.”