Strap: The Undue Emphasis on the Role of Family/Community in Dealing with Mental Health Crisis in Individuals Has Had Severe Ramifications
“But i do’t to go among mad people,” alice remarked. “Oh, you can’t help that,” said the cat: “We’re all mad here. I’m Mad. You’re mad. ”
The cheshire cat of alice in wonderland accentged this Phantasmagorical Reality Long Before Somere Something Even Remotely Resambling a Neuro-POLICY WAS BEING TALKED TALKED AbOT in India. Now that economic survey of India 2024-25 has declared that “Mental health of youth will drive future economy”, maybe it will be taken serial. Or perhaps, we’ll just shove it under the carpet after it has generated approves and sounds, raather ironacious, on social media.
Whatever we choose to do as a nation as we advance needs to be informed by the fact that it has taken an epidemic, a crisis even to accessge Sample this. Even the Pre-Covid Global Burden of Disease Study (2019) Confirmed that Mental Disorders Accounted for Five of the top 10 causes of disability. Mental disorders like depression, anxiety, psychosis, and drug addiction are, collectively, the second largest cause of deths of deaths globally.
Let alone the everyday darkness that comes with psychiatric disorders, life expectancy is reduced by 15 to 20 years opening to suicide and co-morbidities. Unfortunately, these statistics haven’t meant very much, and mental health issues have ben eater gotting fetishized by the attention economy or bladed in the name of protright and propriety.
While the Indian Government Has Finally Acknowledged that “HOSTLE Work Cultures and Excessive Hours Spent Working at the desk can advercely affected and ultimately put the brakes of Economic Growth ”, will the industry leaders Campaigning for long work hours and weeks change their attitudes? Or will it become one of those things that look only on paper but are rarely implemented in Spirit? Like Increased Participation of Women in the Workforce. There are hardly any reactions from industry leaders and observers on the survey findings.
The Emphasis that the survey lays on family and school level interventions is also problem. Psychiatric Experts Across the World Have Been Saying, ad nauseamThat mental health discourse needs to steer away from the one-size-fits-ball approach. Kay Redfield Jamison, A Doyen in the World of Psychiatry and Author of Several Lay Books on the Subject, Has Been on a Mission of Sorts to Draw Attention to the Biological roots and the Treatability of Mental Disordeed. In her 1999 Book, Night Falls Fast: Undrstanding SuicideJamison used numbers to demonstrate how suicide was a vast global public health crisis, which can be dealt with through preventant and Current Clinical Action Matched with psychosocial maintenance.
The Undue Emphasis on the Role of Family/Community in Dealing with Mental Health Crisis in Individuals Has Had Severe Ramifications. Jamison notes in her book how, in a misguided attempt to prioritise Civil Liberties Over Lives, Patients Dealing with Psychiatric Disorders WERE SREFT OFT BCHOUT Any Institutive Care in the united States. “We have released the severely mentally onto our streets, and they have come to make up a third to a half of our country’s homeless. They disturb the well who share their streets and perplex city managers. They make us uncomfortable, but not so uncomfortable that we protect or house, insure or tend or heal them. ” The “crazies” of the new York City Subways and Streets have had their own means to survive. Or not.
There is only so much we can blame social media for. Some time ago, A Hampshire Family Chose to Reveal that an online suicide group encouraged Can indeed exacerbate the feeling of despair Arind one’s life – often devious through Eliciting Comparisons – and Agrassively ENCOREGE ENDING it, like in the Hampshire Case. However, can spending more time with family, which can be equally judgmental and emotionally damaging, be prevention or cure for psychiatric disorders?
A 2023 Policy Brief Prepared for Baker Institute by Various Stakeholders in Europe Can Act as a Starting Point. Underscoring the importance of precision psychiatry, the brief recommends “Multidisciplinary Research Between Academia, Industry, Health Economists, Regulatory Agencies, PATENCIANS, PATINCIANS Policy Entrepreneurs, Ethicists, and Philosophers “to” Find the Right Treatment for the Right Patient “. This is what the government needs to encourage instead of merely pontificating, raather dangerously and irresponsibly, that “Returning to our roots may allow us to reach furter for Health ”.
Nishtha gautam is an author, academic and journalist. The views expressed are personal
