Reshma Valliappan

Dear Deepika, Ever since I heard about your coming out of the closet, so to speak, about your struggle with depression, I have wanted to write. I have swung between many personal and political issues concerning mental health since listening to you.

Reshma Valliappan is an artist, an advocate for the rights of those who suffer from mental health disorders, and a first time author of the book "Fallen, Standing- My Life as a Schizophrenist" - a memoir of years of struggle that began when she was 14 years old.

Dear Deepika, Ever since I heard about your coming out of the closet, so to speak, about your struggle with depression, I have wanted to write. I have swung between many personal and political issues concerning mental health since listening to you.

Reshma Valliappan is an artist, an advocate for the rights of those who suffer from mental health disorders, and a first time author of the book "Fallen, Standing- My Life as a Schizophrenist" - a memoir of years of struggle that began when she was 14 years old.