Every Saturday morning Dr S Kalyanasundaram knows who to expect at the psychiatric clinic he runs at Shanthi nursing home in Jayanagar, Bangalore. It is “the IT crowd”, and their complaints tend to be of a similar nature: stress, panic attacks, depression, relationship troubles, alcoholism and eating disorders.
Aged between 20 and 33 and keen to hide their symptoms from employers and families, the patients have significantly increased Dr Kalyanasundaram’s workload.
