What does schizophrenia feel like from the inside?
Not as a diagnosis. Not as a case study. But as a lived, continuous experience.
The In(Complete) Arc is a reflective account of navigating psychiatric care in India from a patient's perspective. The title reflects its central idea: each part of the system may appear complete on its own, yet together they can still leave the patient feeling unfinished.
The book explores treatment, recovery, consent, and autonomy, along with the balance between protection and choice in mental health care. Alongside personal experience, it examines the structural gaps within India's mental health system, where questions of consent, trust, and autonomy are often overlooked.
It also engages with the Mental Healthcare Act, 2017, and the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016, considering how these frameworks translate into real experiences for patients and families.
Blending lived experience with ethical reflection, this is not a clinical manual or a conventional recovery narrative. It is an attempt to understand what care feels like from within systems that are still evolving-and an invitation to open conversations, share perspectives, and collectively address what still remains incomplete.
The narrative remains intentionally focused on experience, care, and reflection, without centering graphic depictions of psychosis.
At its core, this is not a story of resolution, but of finding steadiness within an In(Complete) arc.
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Sakshi.K
Sakshi.K is an auditor by profession with over eleven years of experience working across India, the UK, and Canada. She holds an MBA, is a CPA (US), has cleared two levels of the US CFA program, and graduated with a B. Com (Honours) from Lady Shri Ram College.
An avid reader with a keen interest in current affairs, her inclination toward reflective writing emerged in 2025 following personal circumstances that led her to turn inward and temporarily engage less with the external world. Her writing reflects this period of introspection and quiet observation.
