www.thesouthasian.org Sociological Implications of Mental Health In the 3rd part of this series, Dr. Syed Ali Wasif points out that mental health is not just a biochemical problem, due to the medical model of diagnosis and pharmacological means of treatment, it has social maladies and therefore, mental health is ignored and overlooked. Mental health relates to the ability of an individual to withstand stress of everyday life. Stress stimulates individually to withstand stress of everyday life. Stress stimulates individuals adaptive potentials they could be physical, biological of psychosocial. Some amount of stress is necessary for an individual to function normally, as stress causes emotional arousal which is needed for alertness. When stress is too intense or prolonged the individual can no longer control it, there is no social and emotional support, it can have destructive physiological and psychological effects and then it becomes the major cause of mental illness as well as psychosomatic illnesses like, hypertension, peptic ulcer, asthma, allergy, myocardial infarction, angina, uncontrolled diabetes, migraine, acne and many more. According to WHO in most developing countries which includes Pakistan, the minimum number of people needing psychiatric attention is about 10-15% of the total population. If psychosomatic disorders and epilepsy are including this figure rises to over 35% and the facilities available are severely in adequate. It appears that due to mounting …
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