Islamabad—Health experts have stressed the need to step up advocacy efforts on by launching anti-stigma activities and for affected people.
Addressing a seminar held here on mental health, they said that the barriers to effective care included the lack of resources, lack of trained providers, and the social stigma associated with including depression.
They said that the depression is a common that presents with depressed mood, loss of interest or pleasure, feelings of guilt or low self-worth, sleep or appetite, low energy, and poor concentration. They said these problems can become chronic or recurrent and lead to substantial impairments in an individual’s ability to take care of his or her everyday responsibilities, at its worst, depression can lead to suicide, a tragic fatality associated with the loss of several lives every year.
According to them, depression is the leading cause of disability and the leading to the global burden of disease which occurs in persons of all genders and ages.
They claimed that the depression is common, affecting about 121 million people worldwide. They said that the depression can be reliably diagnosed and treated in primary care, however only 25 percent of affected have access to effective treatments.
They said most health workers are not conversant with modern methods of treatment of and often do not possess the necessary skills to deal with it. Among them there are many who believe that the only way of withmental illness is long term care, they.
They said that in the majority of countries, including developed ones, there is no parity of care for mental and physical illnesses, adding, stigma of mental illness gains strength from these misconceptions and reinforces them.
Addressing a seminar held here on mental health, they said that the barriers to effective care included the lack of resources, lack of trained providers, and the social stigma associated with including depression.
They said that the depression is a common that presents with depressed mood, loss of interest or pleasure, feelings of guilt or low self-worth, sleep or appetite, low energy, and poor concentration. They said these problems can become chronic or recurrent and lead to substantial impairments in an individual’s ability to take care of his or her everyday responsibilities, at its worst, depression can lead to suicide, a tragic fatality associated with the loss of several lives every year.
According to them, depression is the leading cause of disability and the leading to the global burden of disease which occurs in persons of all genders and ages.
They claimed that the depression is common, affecting about 121 million people worldwide. They said that the depression can be reliably diagnosed and treated in primary care, however only 25 percent of affected have access to effective treatments.
They said most health workers are not conversant with modern methods of treatment of and often do not possess the necessary skills to deal with it. Among them there are many who believe that the only way of withmental illness is long term care, they.
They said that in the majority of countries, including developed ones, there is no parity of care for mental and physical illnesses, adding, stigma of mental illness gains strength from these misconceptions and reinforces them.
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