Radio La Colifata, a radio station based in Argentina is special and unique. Why one of a kind? Because it broadcasts within the confines of Hospital Jose Borda in Buenos Aires — a mental institution plus the patients themselves are the hosts.

As of now, Radio La Colifata's frequencies have reached 50 stations within Latin America, Asia and Europe. Furthermore, former patients of Hospital Jose Borda will soon be putting together and hosting a Radio La Colifata model outside the asylum, one of Argentina's earliest psychiatric wards.

Radio La Colifata, named after "colifata," slang for a nutcase or crazy individual, has been broadcasting for 23 years every Saturday afternoon inside Hospital Jose Borda. According to Aljazeera, it was started more than two decades ago by then psychology student and now founder Alfredo Olivera, who was doing his training at the institution and was frequently questioned by his friends and family about the situation inside his workplace. In order to answer those queries clearly, he came up with the idea of letting the patients themselves describe in their own words what they were going through.

Thus, Radio La Colifata was born to confront the stigma surrounding mental illness and has bit by bit broken through the wall in FM, AM and even online. As per Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, mental illness alludes to disorders generally indicated by dysregulation of thought, mood and/or behavior. Among mental illness, mood disorders are among the most prevalent and includes major depression, psychotic disorders, anxiety, bipolar disorders and dementia/Alzheimer's disease.

CityLab revealed Radio La Colifata was being broadcasted live inside Buenos Aires' Hospital Jose Borda's inner courtyard, under a mosaic with the words "Siempre fui loco" or " I have always been crazy" and beneath the shade of huge trees.

Within the years that the talk show has been heard, Radio La Colifata became a healing space for past inpatients of the mental hospital. These former residents now represented the majority of contributors. Take the case of Eduardo and Silvina who were once former patients of Hospital Jose Borda. They both have experienced the stigma associated with those who were admitted inside and the hardships of starting a new beginning outside.

Eduardo said La Colifata is like his "own family," and continued, "It feels good here. It's very therapeutic."

For therapist Marina Maddaleni, who supported work done in Radio La Colifata, people outside tend to think that "mentally ill people are constantly delirious" but that's not so. People inside can carry on sensible, coherent and up-to-date conversations depending on their "condition" which can surprise quite a lot of outsiders.

"Prejudice will always continue existing, but La Colifata helped minimize it," she ended.