More than one-tenth of the global population suffers from some sort of psychological issues and yet mental illness gets far less priority that it actually deserves. Worse, minor psychological issues are mostly ignored by the families while severe cases are heinously treated and tagged as madmen only to lock them away. There is no denying that psychical disturbance does not get the proper care and acceptance from the society all around the world.
To begin with, the number of general hospitals that treat patients with bodily disease and the specialist doctors and nurses devoted to them are overwhelmingly higher than the healthcare centre and staffs allocated for mental complexities. Someone just needs to walk few blocks to notice a hospital in any city. However, this is not the case for clinics that deal with patients’ mental issues. This is a cruel discrimination when World Health Organization clearly outlines the number of patients who need psychotherapists, mental support and treatment for their psychological intricacies.
Moreover, the social view towards a physically sick child is different than to an autistic child. When the parents openly discuss the sickness of the former one, the latter one tries to hide their children from being mistreated. This raises a serious question of moral integrity and social norm towards people who need special care. Due to the astigmatism of our social and healthcare system, we have so many cases of suicide and criminals in the world. When each county increases its budget to research for deadly diseases, there is scarcely any budget allocation for preventing suicides. For instance, the USA allocate a lion share of its budget for the healthcare sector, but there is no separate allocation for preventing self-destruction, as it this is not an illness at all.
To conclude, the time has come for us to change the old dogma about psychological problems and understand that proper treatment for psychosocial patients is as much important as treating the physically ill people.
More than one-tenth of the global population suffers from
some
sort of
psychological
issues and
yet
mental
illness
gets
far less priority that it actually deserves. Worse, minor
psychological
issues are
mostly
ignored
by the families while severe cases are
heinously
treated and tagged as madmen
only
to lock them away. There is no denying that psychical disturbance does not
get
the proper care and acceptance from the society all around the world.
To
begin
with, the number of general hospitals that treat
patients
with
bodily
disease and the specialist doctors and nurses devoted to them are
overwhelmingly
higher than the healthcare
centre
and staffs allocated for
mental
complexities. Someone
just
needs to walk few blocks to notice a hospital in any city.
However
, this is not the case for clinics that deal with
patients’
mental
issues. This is a cruel discrimination when World Health Organization
clearly
outlines the number of
patients
who need psychotherapists,
mental
support and treatment for their
psychological
intricacies.
Moreover
, the social view towards a
physically
sick child is
different
than
to an autistic child. When the parents
openly
discuss the sickness of the former one, the latter one tries to
hide
their children from
being mistreated
. This raises a serious question of moral integrity and social norm towards
people
who need special care. Due to the astigmatism of our social and healthcare system, we have
so
many
cases of suicide and criminals in the world. When each county increases its budget to research for deadly diseases, there is
scarcely
any budget allocation for preventing suicides.
For instance
, the USA allocate a lion share of its budget for the healthcare sector,
but
there is no separate allocation for preventing self-destruction, as it this is not an illness at all.
To conclude
, the time has
come
for us to
change
the
old
dogma about
psychological
problems and understand that proper treatment for psychosocial
patients
is as much
important
as treating the
physically
ill
people
.