Volume 4 Issue 7 July 2014
❌Mental health problems are very rare.
✅1 in 4 people will experience a mental health problem in any given year.
❌Young people just go through ups and downs as part of puberty, it’s nothing.
✅Children and adolescents suffer through psychological disturbances and needs to be addressed too. In fact,1 in 10 young people will experience a mental health problem.
❌People with mental health illnesses are usually violent and unpredictable.
✅People with a mental illness are more likely to be a victim of violence.
❌Mental health disorders are often life-long and difficult to treat.
✅Different mental health disorders need different treatment durations. Some illnesses like adjustment disorders, mild depression, and first episode of depression / psychosis need short course of treatment as per patients improvement. However, in chronic illnesses, recurrent episodes of illness long term treatment are required.
