Mental health is just as important as physical health. When the mind gets sick, it’s a bit more complex, than if it was the body, who got sick. There are a lot of treatment options for mental illness, because we are different as humans and there are different kind of symptoms for the individual. The treatment options also depend on, which country you are living in.
In the text: ”America and India - Worlds apart in Terms of Mental Health Treatment” by Miranda Kennedy in 2010, are the treatment options a bit different. In India there’s only 1 psychiatrist for 400.000 people and study shows, that it is one of the lowest ratios in the world. Many people in India believes, that one particular temple, Hanumanthapuram, can heal the mentally ill. That’s the treatment, most people in India use. In the text we hear about a girl, Manimagali, who suffers from Schizophrenia. Her mom didn’t have the money to keep paying for her medication; but that wasn’t a big deal for Manimagali, because she felt more comfortable with the gods. In India they use faith as a treatment for their mental illness’, where they in America and in other countries, like Denmark forexample, use medication and different sort of therapy.
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