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| India-Pakistan |
| 20 percent of Paks suffer from mental disorders... |
| 2003-01-20 |
| About 20 per cent of all Pakistanis suffer from mental disorders. Half of them suffer from major ailments and half from minor ones. Only 20 percent? I'd have pegged it higher than that... This was stated by Dr. S. Haroon Ahmed at the inaugural ceremony of the 'Marka-I-Nafsiyat - Psychiatric and Hypnotherapy Institute", which was held at a local hotel. The Adviser to the Prime Minister on Investments and Privatization, Dr. Abdul Hafeez Sheik, was the chief guest. Dr. Haroon said most of the sick people suffered form stress related diseases, which are now on the rise. Karachi was a particularly unfortunate City in this regard where depression was spreading fast, he added. He's talking about Terror Central. Any chance widespread mental illness and the presence of large numbers of terror "masterminds" are related? He said the biologically weak people were especially vulnerable to stress-related disorders. A lot of the country's potential was lost because of these disorders. That, and the riots, murders, and general concentration on Olde Tyme Religion instead of making a living... |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #2 The only fair way to report this is to post the estimates for the US population, which would probably be similar. Really, from watching the news, I would think the Pak mental disorder incidence would be more like 50-75% of the total population. |
| Posted by: Tresho 2003-01-20 20:28:33 |
| #1 One does not need the DSM-V to figure this out. Common sense will. But where common sense is lacking or is prohibited by the government (re: PC), you get this type of insanity....... |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2003-01-20 14:07:57 |