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She grew up in a household where performance was everything. She wanted to be every teacher's favourite, and to top every exam. She was among the top students in her state in her MD examination, and by most measures she was succeeding.

Residency changed what success meant. Sitting with people in real distress, she found there was more to life than winning, and more to care than competence.

She was almost married once. She chose to walk away, because she wanted more from a partnership than she was being offered.

Many people know the feeling of wanting more and not knowing whether they are allowed to ask. She made that the work of her life.

She is neurodivergent herself, recognised late, as it is for many women. She knows how much gets missed when a woman is bright, coping, and quietly exhausted.

She connects especially with women carrying difficult relationships and life transitions, with families making room for more than one person's needs, and with children.

So he got what most Indian children in that position get instead of help: scolding from family and teachers, labels like "lazy" and "not living up to potential." He was bullied, and had few friends.

Over time he struggled with mood, relationships, and later addiction. None of it made sense at the time. It just felt like failure.

Things clicked during his psychiatry residency. He was learning textbook psychiatry and, at the same time, why his own mind had worked the way it did.

Psychiatry became personal, not in a wounded-healer way but a practical one. He decided his work would be to prevent the exact kind of suffering he went through.

The same neurodivergent focus that made school hard is what taught him to build. With Claude Code, an AI coding tool he taught himself, he wrote the clinical reasoning layer of the practice's own software, and this website itself.