Mental Health in Pakistan

Mental health is the least important topic to be discussed in Pakistan as people assume the person who is struggling in life mentally is just insane and cannot be treated. It’s an ultimate failure of our society that does not accept this problem as an illness. APPNA stands with Mr. Shaukat Mukadam, prays for Justice Modi’s fascist regime & its grave human rights violations in IIOJK Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan: Options for the world & Pakistan Improvement in Education System is the need of the hour Say No to Drugs: Seemingly Impossible until it’s done First, we need to understand what mental illness is and why it is important. Each year 13% of children 46% teenagers and 19% of the adult population are affected with mental illnesses and only half of those receive treatment. We need to educate our society that mental illness is a physical illness of the brain that makes us frustrated, changes our behavior, energy, or emotion that makes it difficult to cope with the ordinary demands of life but it is just an illness and it is treatable through medication and therapy sessions, people shouldn’t make it a taboo. The most common mental health conditions are … Continue reading Mental Health in Pakistan