World Health Organisation states one out of four worldwide suffer from various forms of mental, behavioral, and neurological disorders. Are you one of them?

It has also been estimated that depression would be the second largest illness by 2010 keeping in mind its pace by which it is affecting people world over. Here is some statistics for you: Experts in the field of mental health claim that more than half a billion people worldwide suffer from psychiatric disorders, which include abuse owing to drugs and alcohol, epilepsy, dementia, schizophrenia and stress related disorders. To break up, we have around 400 million people suffering from anxiety disorders, 340 million from mood disorders, 250 million cases of personality disorders, 100 million cases of alcohol dependence and 45 million cases of schizophrenia. Rest, calculation is left for you.

The definition of health as been stated by World Health Organisation includes physical, social, emotional and logical well being. Out of these four parameters, three are related to mental health. So, now you know how important is mental health for you and we tend to ignore it the most.

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so my girlfriend right now is pregnant and i’m not real sure if i wanna be with her so i, as a man, am wondering how difficult it is to get full child custody. we are both in college as i am an education major and she is an athletic training major. she has about 4 years of school and i have 2 years. i am asking this because she just went through alcohol treatment this summer and has been sober for about 3 months now but shouldn’t that help my case if we don’t stay together. she is also taking depression meds. THANKS FOR ALL YOUR HONEST OPINIONS!!!

college makes students have anxiety which leads to them drinking alcohol.

how would you operationally define “anxiety”
and “student alcohol use” ?

I was reading how some people use alcohol as a way not just to drink but to self medicate if they have mental issues. Why wouldn’t they instead be on real medication?
thanks for the great answers, appreciate them.