Nagpur: The UNICEF survey of nearly two dozen countries found that young people (aged 15-24) in India are most impossible to deal with mental health problems by sharing experiences with others and seeking support.
World’s world’s flagship survey, World State 2021 (SOWC), said “Among 21 countries, India is the only exception, with 41 percent of young people who support sharing options”.
This is in contrast to 83 percent of the median as a whole, which agrees that it is better to deal with mental health problems by sharing experiences with other people and seeking support.
The rest feel that “such problems are personal and must be handled themselves”.
It hesitantly accepting mental health problems as something that needs to be handled through counseling or talking about, apparently caused by stigma felt.
In Sowc, a feature titled ‘Stigma’ quoted an example of a school teacher’s perception of mental health.
SOWC Article said, “Children do not learn to summatize their own mental health conditions; Many mirror behaviors they see in the world around them.
For example, a cross-sectional study of 566 middle school teachers in South India found that almost 70 percent believed that Depression is a weakness, not sick, and that it cannot be predicted but is not dangerous but harmless.
“Dr.
Suleman Virani, a psychiatrist based in Nagpur, said this attitude turned slowly.
“Things change but there is a big difference between our words and actions.
Just post on social media that I support mental health is not enough.
Advise others to go to professional mental health, but when it comes to your member’s mental health Close, we tend to delay or avoid it, “said Dr.
Virani.
He agreed that the stigma factor was more in young people.
“Parents have their assumptions that some deviant behaviors in this age may be due to growing or hormones or generation of etiquette.
But they actually ignore the issue of core mental health and disease get worse,” Dr.
Virani said.
The multi-country survey of the same group also reveals that 14 percent of Indians report often feel depressed or have a little interest in doing something.
The average percentage is 19.
The key to the transfer of the pandemic-19 pandemic, which sees school closure, high restrictions on physical interactions with those who are outside the family near etc.
also contribute to mental health problems in children.
UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta H Front in the Preface of Writing Reports, “Children around the world have been locked from the classroom, exiled in their homes and robbed daily joys playing with friends – all the consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic.” He added, “When we ignore the mental health of children, we cut their capacity to learn, work, build meaningful relationships and contribute to the world.
When we ignore the mental health of parents and caregivers, we fail to support them to maintain and care for children – their children with their best abilities.
“While this problem might pay more attention because of a pandemic, going forward that it was only the top of the iceberg.
“It is an iceberg that we have ignored too long, and unless we act, it will continue to have disaster results for children and the community after the pandemic ends,” he wrote.
Young people in India will at least discuss personal mental health problems: UNICEF reports
