ANVITA

• Serves wounded souls, reveres humanity and strengthens life.
• Modern global practices in rehabilitation, research and training will be our benchmark, including seminars, workshops and vocational programs
• Believes in respect, recovery and re-capacitating with customized programs to suit unique care needs
• Working together for normalization, rehabilitation and social reintegration
• Life skills aimed at empowerment and independence will be taught vide standard operating protocols.
• Accreditation for internal management practices will be sought.
• Runs on the financial premise of providing high value rehabilitation services at affordable rates for the community through a unique actuarial model.
• Expert and compassionate care and therapies from team of experienced and qualified professionals with their continued guidance, support and advocacy
• Focusing spiritual health in natural environment by refreshing the lives with relaxation and recreation
• Modern standard facilities and superior construction with 24 hours medical care facilities
• Homely and comfortable living accommodations
• Safe and medically supervised living for elderly
• Child-friendly care for child and adolescent
• Asylum practices of dumping ground by the community will be strongly resisted.

We would like to share our proud stories of our patients came from societies, admitted by their family support. The patients after three months of rehabilitation program have achieved a lot.

• Two of them have understood the concept of self-independence and empowerment and they tried and secured job and doing very well at their work places.
• There are house wives who were not able to take care of their selves have joined 4-6 months of rehabilitation program are now managing their homes and household chores much better than normal.
• We have stories of separation and divorce very common amongst the women suffering from mental illness, but ANVITA achieved that marital togetherness also.
• Some of them are staying with her in laws and their husbands with better understanding and better acceptance, even after long years of separation.
• Female adolescent girls are back to their study curriculum and looking forward for their career and marriage prospects.

Success story, HEMA (name changed), 19 years, Ghazipur

When I met her first time, she was full of energy but very stubborn, not even listening to us, running away, all shabby, and yes of course extremely talkative. She needs care and treatment, she was suffering from manic features and so she was in full swing. The day she visited ANVITA, she added colures to our residential block with her euphoria.

Her hairs were so dirty, that without any choice we had to go for shaving her hair. Skins were infected with scabies and she would scratch herself that blood oozes out of skin irritation. She would not cooperate for putting anti scabies lotion. She would remove her clothes, hide and steal others objects and would create all troubles for staffs. She would start dancing whenever you play any tune, asking for food again and again and if you would tell her to wait, she would become irritable, would throw things on others, started biting, and at times her aggression and anger was so that she was forced to stay in her room under strict supervision.

Medicines started suiting her and she was showing improvement gradually, she would look bewildered and kept asking how I am here? Her dysphoria led her to start planning ways of escape and once she tried so, by sliding out of fire exit sider. Though her efforts were in vein rather she had small injury in her elbow of right hand. That day, with the enormous support and compassion of ANVITA STAFF towards her, she had first insight into her condition. She started cooperating for psycho education sessions, took part in all activities without fail like beads work, gardening, agriculture and field jobs, feeding cattle at ANVITA, stitching and painting etc. She made a small garden in our residential block as a gift to ANVITA.

She recalled her past and started giving details about her escape from home. She depicted the story of her loss, her struggles and threats she met when she was wandering with mental illness. She had all fearful experiences of life during this period of time before she reached ANVITA. Every day in individual psychotherapy session she would come out of new information related to her village and family. Whenever she would mention about her two and half year’s daughter, she would burst out of tears. She expressed guilt of leaving home in illness. She would show gratitude that ANVITA saved her life. She said, ANVITA is her last hope and she believes that she would meet her family just because of ANVITA.

The proactive ANVITA members, without delay compiled the information and tried to trace the family through the support of whole team. Links of information were shared and tits and bits of her address were traced tactfully to reach the right destination. And voila! We found them. They came to meet her, the family who lost their hope of getting her back, were so happy to found her. With the complete legal and govt. formalities, she was entrusted to her family with a very happy and proud note of farewell. The best wishes from ANVITA, instructions for care giving, importance of medical compliance and blessings of love, all were gifted to her at time of discharge. A child found her mother, and a desperate husband got her wife back, great achievement by ANVITA team.

The day she came was 25/9 and the day she went was 6/12. Kudos! We did it in 2 months and 10 days. Cheers for the first Reunion @ ANVITA and wish for many more……..!

कीर्ति, 17 वर्ष, राजस्थान

इन्हीं सफलताओं की कड़ी में एक महत्वपूर्ण नाम है ” कीर्ति” (मनोवैज्ञानिक सिद्धांतों के कारण सही नाम गोपनीय रखा गया है ) । कीर्ति ने जिस दिन इलाज के लिए अन्विता में प्रवेश किया था, उस दिन घर वालों के पास अन्विता में उन्हें छोड़ने के अलावा कोई उपाय नहीं था । उसके व्यवहारिक समस्याएँ इतनी बढ़ गईं थीं कि माता पिता डर गए थे उसे घर में रखने में कि पता नहीं कब क्या अनहोनी हो जाए । आत्महत्या की कोशिश, घर से भाग जाने की धमकियाँ, आए दिन नई माँग, अपने दोष को नहीं मानते हुए परिवार वालों को ज़िम्मेदार ठहराना ऐसे कई लक्षणों के कारण उसको घर में इलाज करना मुश्किल हो गया था । साथ ही अत्यधिक जिद्द, किसी की भी बात से असहमति, प्रत्येक क्षण मन और मूड में बदलाव, और झूठ बोलने की असीम प्रवृत्ति तथा बड़ी बड़ी सोच के कारण किसी भी प्रकार के मनोवैज्ञानिक चिकित्सा करने में कई मुश्किलें आ रही थीं। अन्विता में आने के एक महीने पश्चात तक भी हमें एक समर्पित स्टाफ़ की नियुक्ति केवल कीर्ति लिए करनी पड़ी कि कहीं वो अपना या किसी नुक़सान ना कर बैठे या भाग निकलने की कोशिश में कोई घटना ना हो जाए।

परंतु अन्विता टीम की कड़ी मेहनत और लगन ने धीरे धीरे अपना असर दिखाया और कीर्ति साइकलाजिकल थेरपीज़ लिए भी बैठने लगी । दवाइयाँ, थेरपीज़, अन्विता का ऐक्टिविटी प्लान, वातावरण, व संतुलित देख रेख के कारण उसे अपने बीमारी की बख़ूबी समझ आने लगी । धीरे धीरे उसने अपनी जिम्मदारियों को समझना शुरू किया । परिवार की अहमियत और उनकी ज़रूरत के महत्व के बारे में सोचना शुरू किया । कीर्ति ने तय किया कि वो अपनी दिवाली का त्योहार अन्विता में बीताएगी और उसने अपने तरफ़ से हर सम्भव कोशिश की अन्विता की दिवाली बहुत खुबसुरत हो ।

डिस्चार्ज से कुछ दिनों पहले से उसने अपनी सारी कमियों को पहचानते हुए उसके लिए भरसक प्रयत्न शुरू कर दिए । परिवार वाले जिनका उस पर भरोसा उठ सा गया था उन्होंने दोबारा उसको इस लायक पाया कि उसे फिर से हॉस्टल में रहकर पढ़ने के लिए मौक़ा दिया । उन्हें विश्वास नहीं था कि वो कीर्ति को एक सामान्य व्यक्ति कि तरह अपने भविष्य और पढ़ाई में शामिल पाएँगे जो अन्विता ने तीन माह के समय में कर दिखाया।

• Medical and psychiatric OPD care for indoor residents
• Helping women healing their souls after mental illness
• Homely and comfortable living accommodations for women
• Deliciously freshly prepared meals at clean dining hall
• Expert and compassionate care and therapies from experienced and qualified professionals
• Customized programs to suit unique care needs of each woman
• Continued guidance, support and advocacy
• Seminar, Workshops and vocational programs
• Refreshing the lives with relaxation and recreation
• Focusing spiritual health in natural environment
• Life skill training
• Working together for normalization, rehabilitation and Social reintegration
• Low cost investment to recover the costly losses

This is going to be a very unique concept in history of rehabilitation and reintegration and help these women to achieve self reliance, self dignity and self empowerment.