Schizophrenia

Schizophrenia: Myths and Realities in the Pakistani Context

Schizophrenia is a mental disorder that involves a variety of complex symptoms that are tough to manage. It seriously damages the patient’s ability to live a normal life and participate in daily activities like regular people. The feelings, behaviours, and thinking processes are all affected by this mental disorder.  Owing to being a complex psychological disorder, people associate a variety

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90% Treatment Gap of Mental Health in Pakistan

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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