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 Mental illnesses are the most devastating and disabling of the diseases, affecting the mankind, giving it's victims and their families a life of suffering, trauma and travail. They totally destroy the victims personally, sap his capacity to lead a normal family and social life, and drive him to a life of isolation from the family and society.
Nearly one percent of Humanity is suffering from this malady, of which nearly 20% would become chronic. In the context of our country it means nearly one crore of our people are victims of different forms of Mental illness and of whom 20 Lakhs are likely to become chronic. For this formidably stupendous number the facility available for their treatment and rehabilitation is deplorably poor and does not touch even the fringe of the problem. |
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 Often the victims' entire personality becomes shattered due to dysfunctioning of their mental faculty. They drift from social mainstream, remain castigated from immediate neighbourhood, as well as the society at large. What they need is not just medical intervention but a multiple therapeutic approach to bring them back even to a semblance of normal functionality. They require along with psychiatric treatment a scientifically planned and organized counselling and Rehabilitation Programme,
While the illness affects the individual, the families, who are the chief caregivers, suffer equally because of lack of skills to handle critical situations, inadequate knowledge of the nature of illness, dismally poor facilities to treat the illness. Particularly in mofussil centres and villages, and also unfortunately the social stigma attached to the illness. |
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