Mad in Asia Pacific  Supported by  Mad in America,  in partnership with  TCI Asia Pacific

Mad in Asia Pacific encourages critical thinking about psychosocial distress, disability and madness. It provides an online platform to contribute to changing the narratives about madness, in the Asia Pacific regions. Collective actions are needed to change the narrative about psychosocial disabilities / madness / mental distress, involving a whole range of negotiations as well as the affirmation and validation of knowledge, experiences and skills emerging from and responsive to local contexts. Mad in Asia Pacific is the voice for the regions, amplifying the voices of the marginalised and persons with psychosocial disabilities.

Although the bulk of the content is in English, there are regional submissions and content in other languages. The website has accessibility features built in. We will continue to work to make it as inclusive as possible.

Mad in Asia Pacific welcome articles, news from your countries, creative writing, and all that will bring expression to persons with psychosocial disabilities in the Asia Pacific regions. Mad in Asia Pacific is edited by Jhilmil Breckenridge, supported by Shreshtha Das and Momina Masood.

Fueled by growing economies, business interests and public spending as well as policy framework promoting social constraint and control to support the growth of economy, there is a big momentum in Asia for policy interventions intended to 'fill the treatment gap' and new alliances are being built to scale up medical treatments but the global debate is also echoed in the region. There has been many Asia-focused publications and reports, from a medical as well as inclusion perspective, for example, an ASEAN report , and a report from WHO-SEARO and the TEAR fund report , other than innumerable psychiatric articles published in open access journals on the "alarming rise of mental disorders" in the Asian region.

While there are several open windows of opportunities for effecting change in thinking and practice, there is a big need to reframe the policy questions in line with the CRPD. TCI Asia movement has been striving to do so since inception by being quite responsive to the global scenario, and being very active at the regional level, enabling national advocacy in member countries.

We present our deliberations, activities, reports and resources here.

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