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Prisoners or patients?
Our jail system is designed to punish without recognising the mental health needs of inmates.
Asma Humayun
Supporting seniors
Untreated mental disorders in an older adult can worsen the prognosis of common physical conditions.
Stealing childhoods
Many children endure years of guilt feeling responsible for acts of sexual abuse they could not prevent.
The unholy nexus
Pharma and doctors have a symbiotic relationship.
Attempted suicide: illness or crime?
Pakistan is one of the few countries in which attempted suicide is still a punishable offence.
Mental health and work
Inequality, harassment and unsafe working conditions can lead to mental illness.
Parachinar suicides
Violence has compounded the mental health crisis.
Mental health priorities
Policy and legislation need to converge for mental healthcare and services to improve.
Justice miscarried
Schizophrenia is an established mental illness.
A silent epidemic
The Pakistan Psychiatric Society needs to assume greater responsibility in prioritising national needs.
Treating addiction
Does Pakistan really have a drug policy?
Violence at home
Domestic violence and mental illness go hand in hand.
Not a priority
Mental health is neglected in Pakistan.
IDPs’ mental trauma
IT has long been established that armed conflicts and the subsequent mass dislocation of population results in...
Treatable but stigmatised
THE use of ‘depression’ in everyday nomenclature has witnessed a surge in popularity in recent times. This is probably because at a basic level, it is used to describe subjective distress in relation to socioeconomic difficulties.
A stigmatised section
OCT 10 is designated as World Mental Health Day. The objective is to raise public awareness about mental health...
Media & mental health
DISASTERS seem to occur more often now than in the past. Any acute and sudden event which is collectively ...