One in five COVID-19 patients develop mental illness within 90 days – study
- 11-Nov-2020
The researchers from Britain’s Oxford University also found significantly higher risks of dementia, a brain impairment condition.
Mawra Hocane opens up about her battle with anxiety
- 23-Sep-2019
"We are all in this together," she tells people who have or are suffering from anxiety.
Mental illness affects a fifth of people living in war zones
- 12-Jun-2019
One in five people in war zones has depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress, bipolar disorder or schizophrenia
Instagram tightens rules on self-injury images
- 08-Feb-2019
Instagram announced it is clamping down on images related to self-injury such as cutting
“Donate my body parts,” requests medical student in suicide note
- 07-Feb-2019
The youth from Mardan was a student of final year at Khyber Medical College in Peshawar who hanged himself in his hostel room
Supreme Court seeks fresh medical report of mentally ill death row prisoner
- 14-Jan-2019
A two-member bench of Supreme Court forwarded the matter to a larger bench that is hearing another similar case.
President Alvi urges psychiatrists to focus on ‘some MNAs’ among 20mn mental patients
- 18-Nov-2018
LAHORE: President Dr Arif Alvi urged psychiatrists to first focus on treating ‘some members of the National Assembly’ among other 20 million mental patients in the country. Speaking at the conference organised by the Pakistan Psychiatric Society, Dr Alvi said, he could point out a considerable number of politicians in Pakistan who needed psychiatric treatment. […]
Padukone says India ‘long way’ from ending mental illness stigma
- 23-Mar-2018
NEW DELHI: Bollywood superstar Deepika Padukone called on Friday for bolder efforts by Indians to end the stigma surrounding mental illness. “We have a long way to go,” said the actress, who went public about her struggle with depression in 2015 and won praise for her campaign to spark public discourse on mental health in […]
Schizophrenia not a mental illness, Supreme Court rules
- 21-Oct-2016
ISLAMABAD: Supreme Court has ruled that schizophrenia does not fall within its legal definition of mental disorders, clearing the way for the execution, as soon as next week, of a mentally ill man convicted of murder. Government doctors in 2012 certified Imdad Ali, 50, as being a paranoid schizophrenic, after he was convicted and sentenced […]
China, India face huge mental health burden: study
- 18-May-2016
PARIS: China and India are home to more than a third of people with mental illness, but only a tiny fraction of them receive medical help, according to studies released Wednesday.