This mindset not only harms individuals with mental illness but also renders them vulnerable to exploitation, abuse, neglect, and social exclusion.[5]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n The Global Burden of Disease report indicates that mental disorders contribute to 13% of all disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) lost, with depression being the leading cause of years lived with disability.[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n It is estimated that over 300 million people worldwide suffer from depression, accounting for approximately 4.4% of the global population. Numerous studies have shown a strong association between mental disorders and a wide range of acute and chronic conditions, including noncommunicable diseases, injuries, violence, and adverse maternal and child health outcomes.<\/p>\n Approximately 14% of the global burden of disease is attributed to neuropsychiatric disorders, largely due to the chronically disabling effects of depression, other common mental disorders, alcohol and substance use disorders, and psychoses. These figures underscore the significant impact of mental health conditions on public health and highlight the urgent need for focused intervention and awareness.<\/p>\n Mental disorders elevate the risk of both communicable and non-communicable diseases, and are associated with a higher likelihood of both unintentional and intentional injuries. Conversely, various physical health conditions can increase the risk of developing mental disorders. This bidirectional relationship, along with comorbidities, complicates help-seeking, diagnosis, treatment, and ultimately affects the overall prognosis.\u00a0[7]<\/a><\/p>\n The prevalence of any cardiovascular diseases is the lowest in adults who are mentally healthy and higher among adults with major depressive episode, with minor depression, with languishing, and with moderate mental health. Conversely, many health conditions increase the risk for mental disorder, and comorbidity complicates help-seeking, diagnosis, and treatment, and influences prognosis. Mental health is of utmost important as it has direct bearing on general health.\u00a0 [8]<\/a><\/p>\n A 2016 study by India’s National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences (NIMHANS), spanning 12 states, found that the prevalence of depression was 2.7% for current cases and 5.2% for lifetime cases. This means approximately 1 in 40 people in India experience ongoing depression, while 1 in 20 have faced it at some point in their lives.\u00a0<\/em>.<\/em>[9]<\/a><\/p>\n The survey, also found that 1% of those surveyed had \u201chigh suicidal risk.\u201d This figure could be around 76 lakh persons if extrapolated for India. [10]<\/a><\/p>\n This survey has shown that the lifetime prevalence of mental disorder is 13.7% as a whole, which would mean at least 150 million Indians are in need of urgent intervention.<\/span>\u00a0Mental illness in vulnerable age groups such as adolescent and in geriatric population accounts for more than half of the total burden.\u00a0<\/span>[11]<\/a>[12]<\/a><\/p>\n India\u2019s Ticking Bomb:<\/strong> Another report regarding the projected burden of mental illness conveys that it will increase more rapidly in India than the other countries over the next 10 years<\/span>\u00a0and will account for one-third of the global burden of mental illnesses, a figure greater than all developed countries put together<\/span>.[13]<\/a> Even with the heavy toll of mental health disorders, they continue to be stigmatized and poorly understood in countries such as India. \u00a0 \u00a0[14]<\/a>[15]<\/a><\/p>\n As part of developing a mental healthcare model for rural India, a study on detecting and managing priority mental disorders was conducted across 120 villages near the Sakalwara Rural Mental Health Centre in Bangalore District. Over three and a half years, the team provided community-based care using minimal medication, treating 51 schizophrenia patients, 30 acute psychosis cases, 27 manic-depressive psychosis (MDP) cases, and 268 epilepsy patients. \u00a0 \u00a0 [16]<\/a><\/p>\n Understanding the financial burden on the community, Government of India has taken several steps like changing the laws with penal actions, launching several programmes to make citizens aware of their mental illness or abnormality, introduced on-line platform to guide the patients and to make available professional help on-line, train more medic and para-medic staffs for in-house treatments, allocated budget to procure modern non-invasive technology like Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation.<\/p>\n Debasis Chaudhuri<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Mental Healthcare Legislation 2017 – India On March 27, 2017, the Lok Sabha (Lower House of the Indian Parliament) unanimously passed the Mental Healthcare Act, 2017....<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mental-healthcare-legislation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tecmentis.com\/ok\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tecmentis.com\/ok\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tecmentis.com\/ok\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tecmentis.com\/ok\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tecmentis.com\/ok\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/tecmentis.com\/ok\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":367,"href":"https:\/\/tecmentis.com\/ok\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions\/367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tecmentis.com\/ok\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tecmentis.com\/ok\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tecmentis.com\/ok\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/tecmentis.com\/ok\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/DC1-3.jpg\")
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