Blaise D'Souza

Blaise D'Souza is a writer and peer support advocate whose work explores the intersection of faith, mental health, and the quiet, hard-won work of healing.

Drawing on his own decades-long journey through serious mental health struggles, he writes with honesty and deep compassion, exploring a question many people carry in silence: "Am I bad, or am I mad?"

His search for answers took him through many seasons of life — from Catholic retreats and a prestigious PhD program in America to some of the hardest years of his life, wrestling with addiction. Through it all, he held on to faith, and slowly found his way back to hope. He is the author of the following:

Nonfiction

Let Them Know I Love Them · No Madness No Badness · The O Happy Fault

Fiction

Dongri to Lal Baug via Bhayandar · The Applicant · He Told No One · It Takes Three to Counsel: Stories of Barefoot Counsellors · My Highway to Heaven: A Novel of Carlo Acutis · Running to Church: All Is Well at St. Anne's · Sakhi.exe · The Fourth Chair: A Barefoot Counsellor's Story · The Hardbound Truth

Based in Mumbai, India, Blaise writes to offer companionship and hope to anyone who has ever felt caught in the gray area between struggling and being understood — a reminder that healing, however long it takes, is always possible.