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In India, people with severe mental illnesses often turn to temples and shrines, not to doctors.
The foremost reason for India to lose its mental health is the lack of awareness and sensitivity about the issue. There is a big stigma around people suffering from any kind of mental health issues. They are often tagged as “lunatics”, “crazy”, “possessed” and many more by society. This leads to a vicious cycle of shame, suffering and isolation of the patients.
India is a developing country. Healthcare infrastructure is not yet completely developed and everyone cannot get cost effective treatment. Getting treatment for physical problems is naturally a top priority as it incapacitates the person. Since people have limited finances, physical problems are given preference and mental issues take a back seat as it’s impact is not as visible as physical issues. There is a lack of education and awareness about mental health. People consider mental issues as taboo and they try to hide them.
They don’t discuss it openly with others and feel low and a sense of guilt for suffering from mental illness. Person suffering from Mental health issues is seen as a mad man deserving mental asylum. We have been living in joint large families and mental health issues were very less. Levels of stress, anxiety and depression were quite few because people felt connected with their families, villages and societies. As the world has modernized, we have been moving to nuclear families and social connections have been broken.
Stress to earn more, have more and be better than others have increased. That has caused an increase in cases of mental health problems.
Governments, NGOs and other social institutes need to start educating about mental health issues and remove the misconceptions attached with it. They have done this successfully for diseases like polio, leprosy, HIV, Typhoid etc.
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