MENTAL ILLNESS IS MORE COMMONPLACE IN URBAN INDIA, AS COMPARED TO RURAL INDIA:

 In a report suggested by the WHO, India is the most depressed country in the world. The same report suggested death by suicide as a major death cause of our country. Since then, the annual expenditure on mental health by the government might have hardly been raised from 0.06% to 0.07% annually.

Every third person out of five in the world is experiencing various mental & psychological issues; which is an alarming rate, both on a global & a national level. One out of every five Indians is suffering from a mental disorder.

Mental illness/ disorders encompasses a large number of categories. Some of them include depression, anxiety, panic attacks, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and so on.

All of them affect a person’s mood, thoughts and behaviour which in turn affect a person’s mental & social growth.

Where do you think all of this began from in the first place?

I think, it started the moment our population decided to grow exponentially in terms of manpower, currency, profits & so on. The conscious fell latent. And the gradually crawling obsessive nature of the population became more of a role-decider to gift us humans, the curse of blind progress on the leverage of our mental health. Above all, 50% of corporate population of India is under chronic stress & this stress statistics keep on increasing exponentially every step of the way.

Isn’t the decision of urbanization digging a toll at us?

Aren’t all of us consciously or sub-consciously paying for all the materialistic progress we tend to believe to have gained.

The tendency to grow is a humanly progressive trait but to neglect our state of minds in the race is another level of hypocrisy we humans might have landed into. And to be true, its true. We’re so neglectful towards the growing rates of mental disorders among us right now, that the only legacy we might leave behind, might be the legacy of ignorance of our mental state.

Don’t die of ignorance. 

I hope we start treating our brain as a part of our body.

I hope we comprehend and grasp the huge shouts provided by the statistics of mental stresses in India and in the world. And may we gain the confidence to address the elephant in the room and subsequently understand the distress of mental illnesses. 


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  1. AnonymousOctober 8, 2020 at 9:32 AM

    Nice article... mental health is a social problem and should be addressed properly.

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