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Trivializing Mental Health Disorders

Approximately 8 million deaths worldwide are attributable to mental disorders each year. A study conducted by the Word Health Organization in 2015 shows that one in five Indians may suffer from depression in their lifetime, equivalent to 200 million people. With such statistics one would wonder that awareness about the same is widespread and the public is sensitive enough towards people suffering from mental health disorders. Such hopes though are in vain. Often we see people lamenting and calling themselves depressed over a professional or personal loss, or labeling themselves or others with a habit of tidying things and places up as patients sick with obsessive compulsive disorder or call themselves as bipolar because of mood swings they may have or address people with different behaviour than themselves as 'psychopaths' or refer to someone who clicks a lot of selfies as a 'narcissist' . But do we actually understand what these terms mean? Or the implicati...