Why Mental Health Services?

Neurological and psychiatric disorders are among the most prevalent and the most disabling of all illnesses, in the developing as well as in the industrialized world Major depression, social anxiety, Alzheimer’s dementia, stroke, traumatic brain injury, epilepsy, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, multiple sclerosis, and other brain diseases not only are exceedingly common but also carry a collective burden of disease that eclipse virtually all other forms of human illness- including perennial killers like malaria, malnutrition, AIDS, heart disease, cancer, and death by accident or violence. In fact, one report predicts that major depressive disorder will become the leading cause of disability in the world by 2030 (Yang et al., 2015).