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So, we live in a society, who has every thing pressured or who portrait a thing like it’s perfect , don’t wanna anything other than that. Whether it’s about women liberation, LGBTQ community, men’s emotion or sickness. Yes, you heard me right, sickness, physical, genital and mental. Our society accept only physical illness as it’s vastly produced or treated but genital and mental illness is a shame. And when we’re talking about mental health, it’s a large taboo which isn’t even discussed properly. Approx each and every country is suffering from this silently. And in a progressive country, like India, we don’t even have a right procedure of treatment for mental health.In the case of women, they are mostly believed to be in depression for the affected relationships and advised to get married, as our society don’t know any cure other than this for a woman’s illness. It’s even considered somehow as a self-made illness of patient, even by their own family. A person’s state of mind has a lot to do with it. Experts say that the pressure of modern life, not necessarily work pressure or study pressure, is one of the causes of a primary mental breakdown. According to the report, there’s approximately 800000 people are dying from suicide every year. Many adults face depression ,anxiety disorder,mood disorder which leads to suicide. There’s even other phobias among the biology about which we’re not aware at all.
But after so many incident which are strikingly pointing towards the effortlessness in case of mental illness, our society still have it as a taboo. It must be like a sudden exaggeration to you, but it’s more common than you think.
Some families don’t want to talk about it as they feel , due to cultural perspective, mental illness is signified as being crazy or mad. And this is shameful for them to ask help about that.
Now, in case of patients, people hide their illness as they feel that nobody will accept it or treat them well. It’s even more shameful than revealing about your homosexuality.
In some cases like depression, patients deal themselves with self stigmatization which directly lead to the worst case scenario and avoiding proper treatment.
People are facing nervous breakdown, can be caused by too stressful lifestyle when they are not able to function according to surrounding and it’s not only a myth or an illness, people called as ‘rich children’s illness’. The time has come when we have to accept the reality about how severe a mental illness can be. It can be a family member, a friend, a neighbor. We should be less judgemental and more friendly towards the people as we never know what’s going on their mind. A proper treatment is an absolute need as well as person has to be able to accept and discuss it.We should make them believe that it’s ok to have a break down. Take rest, go easy. Cause you are important.