lonely and upwardly mobile.Or married,bored,friendless and overweight.Or for the the matter,stressed,unfaithful and forlorn.For the first time Indians are facing the problem of mind.In fact,more than 1.25 lakh people in India commit suicide every year,and about 4 lakh attempt it unsuccessfully-of which almost 50 per cent are people are under the age of 30.the union health ministry planned a suicide prevention programme SPP last year. At a psychiatrist clinic the patient may include a highly successful businessman who cant understand why he suddenly start weeping uncontrollably when all is seeming well in his life,or the home maker who gets palpitations because of her teen aged daughter's board exam,or a 29 year old school teacher who thinks that she needs help because every time she meets a potential suitor she has an anxiety attack,or a 19 year engineering aspirant has no enough confidence to face entrance exam.

So,is India getting shrink-wrapped?why do we rush to a psychiatrist when something does not feel right in your head?this is nothing but lack of right information and awareness.In our metros certain section of elite think that if you aren't in therapy you are not fully sorted.we normally over analyse one's behaviour the young school teacher teacher who thought she needed anti-anxiety medication where as she was just a normal nervous singleton.she needed simple help not a psychiatrist's medication.In fact there is a great deal of concern about over prescription or in appropriate diagnosis by doctors.For example routine anxiety from day- to- day affairs are over diagnosed as depression or anxiety disorder and the patient are told to start popping a pill,when in fact a regular walk in park or a holiday or some counselling could easily be a solution.A very few people know this"Psychiatry is the only science where there no test to prove that a person is suffering from depression."

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