Mental Illness Is On Rise: Psychiatrist

Eminent Psychiatrist and Consultant Dr.Darya Khan Legahri said that Proper understanding coupled with modified attitude towards biological, emotional and psychiatric conditions of all age groups was recommended to help ensure stable mental health status ultimately leading to physical and social well-being of local population.

HYDERABAD, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 14th Sep, 2018 ) :Eminent Psychiatrist and consultant Dr.Darya Khan Legahri said that Proper understanding coupled with modified attitude towards biological, emotional and psychiatric conditions of all age groups was recommended to help ensure stable mental health status ultimately leading to physical and social well-being of local population.

Talking to APP here on Friday, Dr.Darya Khan Leghri said that the need to identify and manage mental health problems and possible interventions for promoting mental health across the life span.

Dr.Khan said that large segments of the population suffered from diverse mental diseases and research indicated that 10 to 20 percent people suffered from depression, five to eight from anxiety and one percent from schizophrenia, added.

He said that there were many factors contributed to high rates of mental health problems in Pakistan. The inter-family marriages, high rates of birth injuries, economic decline, unemployment and rapidly changing cultural and social values are some of the causes, Dr.Darya khan said.

He said that the number of patients suffering from mental diseases was on rise as compared to past and there be need of making serious efforts to prevent the diseases at the initial stages.

Dr.Darya Khan Leghri said that due to lack of awareness, people with psychological and emotional problems often visited faith healers, spiritual leaders, homeopathic doctors, magicians and hakims only to be abused by them.

He said that the depression has always been a major mental disorder in 3rd world countries because of the objects which gives birth to depression are mainly the reason for the country to be an under developed country, those factors which impose depressions in human minds are Economic Factors lack of social security, high level of joblessness, ill health, no proper law and order, Dr.

Darya Khan Leghri added.

Dr.Darya Khan stressed the need for extending the infrastructure to provide adequate psychiatric treatment to the ailing people and also for launching mental health services and awareness campaign in the country to overcome sociological and medical causes causing such conditions.,added.

They said that increasing depression among the people was causing change in behavior resulting in different kinds of mental illnesses. He said that the number of patients suffering from mental illness was on the rise and there was a need for making serious efforts to prevent the occurrences of such conditions at the initial stages.

He further said that in order to prevent depression and psychiatric diseases in the country at least one psychiatric unit should be established in every district to provide treatment and also to create awareness among the people, added.

Dr.Khan said that the most important cause for psychiatric conditions was abnormality of neurotransmitters which could be treated through medication.

Dr.Darya Khan underlined the need of creating mass awareness about in depth causes of increasing mental illness that the adults could be aware of the real facts and adopt precautionary measures in order tosave their lives as well as future generation.