TORONTO In many cultures around the world, mental illness is still rarely talked about. That s how Karandeep Gill grew up, in a Punjabi community in Brampton, Ont., outside of Toronto. Having a mental illness wasn’t just something people were expected to keep secret in her community, she says mental illness was treated as if “it wasn’t real” at all. So when her symptoms began when she was 15, she didn t know what to do. The first time she had a panic attack in school, the sensation was so alien that she told her twin sister she felt like she was having a heart attack, tears streaming down her face.