اگر کسی کو سانس لینے میں دشواری ہو، معدے یا جگر کا کوئی مرض ہو تو ہم فورا ًسے اس کا علاج کرتے ہیں اور اس مریض کو ہمت دلاتے ہیں مگر ذہنی بیماری میں ذہنی صحت کی اہمیت سے نابلد ہونے کے باعث ہم علاج شروع نہیں کرتے بلکہ اس شخص کو وہمی، ناتواں ، کمزور قوت ارادی کا
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PTSD, a word most commonly heard in novels, biographies, stories and movies. What is PTSD and does everyone get it? Is it as easy as shown and read about? But what really is PTSD? POST TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER: PTSD a psychiatric disorder that may occur in people who have experienced or witnessed a “traumatic event”. You may feel no interest
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More than 220 million people live in Pakistan. About 500 of those people, however, are psychiatrists. The numbers are even more striking when considering Pakistan’s rural areas, where there is only about one psychiatrist for every one million people. Stigma and other societal constraints also contribute toward Pakistanis not getting the mental health care they need, resulting in an almost
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