40 million Pakistanis suffer from mental disorders

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25pc Pakistani suffering from mental disorders


Twenty five to thirty percent of the total population or about 30 to 40 million people of Pakistan are suffering from various mental disorders, while 15 to 20 million such people need to be admitted at psychiatric hospitals for treatment.

This was said by Karachi Psychiatric Hospital Managing Director Dr Syed Mubeen Akhtar on Tuesday.

He was addressing a press conference at Karachi Press Club in connection with World Mental Health Day to be observed today.

Akhtar said that psychological disorders affected the power of thinking and understanding, the way of talking and the attitude of a person, creating problems not only for his family but for the society as a whole.

The MD also said that mental disorders were curable by regular treatment. He stressed that in cases where people considered exorcising a patient, he was actually suffering from a kind of mental disorder.

Around 70 per cent patients with psychological disorders did not avail proper treatment at hospitals and rather wandered about at shrines or visited faith-healers.

Akhtar said the ever increasing number of suicides, violence, bloodshed and lawlessness in the country also suggested the gravity of the disorder as such crimes were the result of some mental illness.

He told that an awareness program with regards to such disorders would be organised on October 14 at Expo Center.

AKUH seminar today

The Aga Khan University Hospital (AKUH) will hold a seminar to commemorate the World Mental Health Day 2012 on October 10.

An official of the institution said on Tuesday that the occasion is aimed at raising public awareness about mental health issues.

This year, it is pointed out, the theme for the day is `Depression: A Global Crisis'.

Depression affects more than 350 million people of all ages in all communities, and is a significant contributor to the global burden of the disease.

On the occasion, the AKUH experts will highlight basic mental health issues, especially depression, management of depression in women, managing adolescent issues, depression in medical illnesses, and the role of rehabilitation in recovery of depression.—Agencies
25pc Pakistani suffering from mental disorders - thenews.com.pk

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so sorry to hear that.may be current state of conditions in Pakistan is causing psychiatric problems to many.there could be many more too.
common mans inability to understand the problem of a psychiatric patient cause late attention to problem,in some places its thought to be black magic done on the person for his erratic behavior

more over situation in India too is not good
https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&...z6hUh8&sig=AHIEtbSPi5F8cHXhvtolr5qMCcZKWb_d0Q
acute shortage of psychiatrists is also one major reason
 

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This is not an im probable statistic. That a great many Pakistanis suffer from psychiatric problems is not new. They are delusional, psychotic, religion and India-obsessed. The founding problem lies with their raison d'être. The Pakistani knows that his country is Jihad Central, knows that his military is deceiving him, knows that the Indian Muslim is doing better than him, yet can't understand why that is. Deep down, he knows he has had the wool pulled over his eyes, with the religious bigotry-bullshit, that led to the creation of his state and is now the very cause of it's ruin.
 

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Incest and Islam is the main cause to mental disorders not just in pakistan but Islamic people all over the world including India!
 

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so this is the real reason why pakistan has sh*T loads of people like zahil hamid:rofl:!well good for them,because now we would have to take care of only 140 millions pakistanis:lol:!
 

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