Mental illness is the real thing of this century - essay on mental health

Every year millions of people contemplate suicide and a close to 8 million do really succeed as reported by WHO. There has always been a stigma attached with the sufferers of depression, anxiety, dementia etc. but very a few know what mental health is how it affects a human being.

Mental health is classified into many a types one being psychosis and the other being neurosis. Psychosis is the genetic impairment that we get to see in the people who suffer from autism in early age and other illnesses like dementia that people develop in their older age and neurosis is when people delve themselves into depression, anxiety, phobia and other obsessive compulsive disorders. WHO figures says that a close to 8-9% of the Indian population in India is suffering from depression related problems, calling this issue as a catastrophe in terms of illnesses.

So, what is depression after all?

It’s a condition when a person feels totally lost, and a feeling of negativity surrounds his/her environment., loses hope of life feeling shattered when going through a major life changing incidences and sometimes resulting in incidents like suicide.

How to diagnose depression?

Everyday sadness, negative thoughts need not be mistaken with depression. The real depression is a clinical disease, where a significant impairment of ones life, feeling of low mood, negative thoughts decrease in activities, for a period of more than 4 to 5 weeks is normally diagnosed with depression.

What needs to be done?

Government of the day is well averse with the aforementioned condition, and it has called for demolishing the section 309 of IPC as criminal offence and started to take this problem as mental illness.And the person in such a stress will be seen as a person in need of help, mostly with a psychosis disorder. It has also brought a version of mental health care bill back in 2016,but due to budgetary cuts and social negligence and lack of advocacy the bill is put in limbo.

NGO’s of the day have started to form groups specially to deal with the issues of depression. Special hot lines are made available for those in need of counseling’s, several state governments have come up with their version of mental health care acts to solve this menace.International organizations are themed in the issues related to depression and tiring to connect those who have suffered and came out alive through rallies and other social platforms.