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15% of Pakistani youth suffer from mental health disorders: expert
2025-07-20
[GEO.TV] One of Pakistain's top neurologists, Dr Muhammad Wasay, said on Thursday that 15% of Pakistain's youth are suffering from mental health disorders.
They probably define "mental health disorders" differently from the rest of the world...
Millennia of close-cousin marriage has consequences, no matter how they may choose to define it.
On the occasion of World Brain Day 2025, a presser was held on Thursday at the Bloody Karachi
...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...

Press Club, in which renowned neurologists and health experts emphasised that mental health is not merely the absence of disease, but the foundation of a positive, dignified, and well-balanced life.

This year's theme for World Brain Day is "Brain Health and Wellbeing: A Priority for All". According to global statistics, 43% of the world's population suffers from some form of neurological or mental disorder.

Other experts said that stroke cases have doubled compared to the past ten years.
Posted by:Fred

#7  ^#5
Female vs. Male for Mental Illness

Females exceed Males in all countries.
Also, the 14 to 35-year-old bracket especially.
Posted by: NN2N1   2025-07-20 09:39  

#6  I guess we need to find out what they are doing right.
Posted by: Super Hose   2025-07-20 09:24  

#5  A percentage still well below American Liberal White Females.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2025-07-20 08:33  

#4  
Looking at being #1 in the world for Consanguineous Marriages is 1 explanation. But then add in cultural, environmental, Religious teachings, and general conflicts with the incoming Smartphone generation.

I can see even Higher Percentages than admitted to.
Posted by: NN2N1   2025-07-20 05:41  

#3  When the Family Tree is a stick, who needs Ancestry.com?
Posted by: Frank G   2025-07-20 04:10  

#2  Lots of genetic mutations manifest as mental or physical disorders, Skidmark. Are we talking at cross purposes?
Posted by: trailing wife   2025-07-20 01:24  

#1  I don't think 'genetic' is a disorder.
Posted by: Skidmark   2025-07-20 00:11  

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