What is Mental illness?|Do Indians suffer from Mental illness?- Dr. Kiran Kumar K | Doctors' Circle скачать в хорошем качестве

What is Mental illness?|Do Indians suffer from Mental illness?- Dr. Kiran Kumar K | Doctors' Circle

Dr. Kiran Kumar K | Appointment booking number: +91-9663516934 Consultant Psychiatrist & Director | The Nirvana Center, Marathahalli, Bangalore Mental illness is like any medical illness that involves the way we think, act and feel or there is any slight aberrations in our emotions thinking or perceptions. Like any physical illness, mental illness is a real illness, like you have diabetes, or hypertension myocardial infarction and ischemic heart diseases and mental illnesses. Please note Mental illness can affect individuals of any age, any gender, an socioeconomic status, anyone of us are vulnerable for developing psychiatric illness any time n their lifetime. What is the magnitude of psychiatric illness globally? According to World Health Organization, globally 1 in 4 persons have some kind of psychiatric illness that boils down to 1 billion people today suffering from Mental illness. Are we Indians immune to psychiatric illness? Of course not. According t the global burden of disease, studies done in 1990 to 2017 and published in 2017 about 167 million people suffer from some diagnosable treatable psychiatric illness that is 1 in 6 of us will have a diagnosis if psychiatric illness. What is the problem? The problem is there is hardly 10,000 qualified psychiatrists in India to take care of this magnitude that is where we stand a big mismatch in the diagnosis of psychiatric illness and the availability of professionals to treat this epidemic.