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Daijiworld Media Network – Mangalore (VM)
Mangalore, Oct 10: The pediatric center in Wenlock district hospital observed World Mental Health day with the theme ‘Depression, a global crisis’ on Wednesday October 10.
World Mental Health Day (October 10) is a day for global mental health education, awareness and advocacy.
The programme was organized by department of psychiatry, KMC along with Wenlock district hospital and Manaswini, Thunga Institute of Psychiatry.
As part of the programme, various competitions like poster making, paper presentation, psychiatry quiz were held for the special students.
The day-long programme will end with valedictory function presided by Ashok G Nijagannavar, principal district and sessions court judge at 4 pm.
Amitha Kala, deputy Mayor, Dr Vivian D’Souza, associate dean in KMC, Dr P Saroja, district surgeon and superintendent of district government Wenlock hospital will be present.
The keynote address will be delivered by Dr Rameela Shekar, professor and dean of PG department, Roshni Nilaya.
Dr Ravish Thunga, professor and HOD of Psychiatry, KMC, Dr Keshav Pai, associate professor, KMC, Dr Supriya Hegde, Dr Arun Rao among others were present.
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Daijiworld Media Network- Udupi (SM)
The theme of the 2012 World Mental Health Week has been set up as “Depression: A Global Crisis”.
District government hospital consultant psychiatrist Dr Vasudeva and physician P V Bhandary said that journalists occupy the seventh position in the survey conducted by Center for Disease Control with regard to the most stressed profession.
The other professionals include doctors, police officials, and high school teachers and so on.
Speaking at the workshop organized for the journalists on the occasion of World Mental Health Week-2012, the psychiatrist said the causes that lead to depression are wrong habits, untimely food, long working hours late nights, stressful deadline crunch, accused of bias and underpaid job.
“It is essential to learn about stress, identify the problems and also to develop problem solving capacity”, he said.
Bhandary stressed that journalists should also develop the ability to say no, he added.
Depression is a minor mental illness. It is more commonly seen occurring females. There is no age limit for this disease.
As per a survey conducted based on mental illness, by the year 2030, depression is going to be a major cause of ill health. Currently, it is in leading in the third position causing a heavy burden to mankind.
The speakers said that depression at its worst leads to suicide. As many as one million lives are lost every year owing to suicides , and as many as 3000 suicides are accounted for every day.
Every 40 seconds a person commits suicide and every three second a person attempts suicide,they quoted the statistics.
“There is a solution for all problems, self esteem, self management; self awareness and self confidence are needed to overcome depression”, the psychiatrist added.
They stated that if not for the above way it is always advised to meet a doctor but the problem here is the social status and hesitation to meet a psychiatrist.
Educating the patients against the disease is important. One should make them feel that they are not alone, they advised.
Routine physical workout will help to get rid of depression.