Mental health in Pakistan:
Mental health despite being the most common illness has been ignored greatly over the past years; it is most common in disabling condition in the developing countries including Pakistan. The alarming situation in the rise of this mental disorder encourages the irrational use of psychotropic drugs and quack practices.
Around 50 million people suffer from these mental disorders for which only 400 trained psychiatrists are available in the country.
In Pakistan it is widely present and one of the reasons is that when a person is unemployed. It is said that “an idle mind is the devils workshop”.
Poverty causes frustration and aggression in people when they cannot fulfill their own basic needs or their families and thus people indulge themselves in unethical or criminal actions just to prevent themselves and their family from dying with hunger. And when a person does not find any way out they commit suicide.
The second reason for mental health can be when a person is being bullied on a daily basis or judged on every move or step, criticism is more dangerous than anything a person needs to be appreciated and constant criticism brings nothing to a person but sadness and we have recently encountered an incident where a famous young model committed suicide just because of the judgmental comments she had to face every day in our society.
The third reason is the pressure Pakistani parents put on their children while choosing a career or their studies, everyone wants their child to be the best in class but pressuring them for doing more than they can is where the parenting fails, due to which a lot of children have committed suicide by just thinking how badly they will be treated and what would be their parents reaction.
