Ramya P., 29, in Northern California, on what it's like to talk with her family about mental health:
"My grandmother and my aunt are schizophrenic. My whole family is here, but they put [my aunt] in an institution in India. And it's such a hush hush thing... she’s a secret half a world away.
Growing up around that, I never wanted to bring anything up – that 'oh I was feeling depressed,' or 'I’m in a sad mood,' because even at a young age I could understand that it wouldn'...t be well received by my family.
Things took a turn because I started having what they call psychotic breaks – with hallucinations, thinking the world is spinning around me. And I was having these severe crying fits where anybody, as soon as they asked me 'oh what's up' or 'how are you doing,' I would start crying. And that was another reason why i didn't want to um see see anybody. I just kind of isolated myself. Including from my parents."
Listen to what happens when another woman tells her mom about her depression: http://wny.cc/hjPZ300R93c