There is only 1 psychiatrist for every 400,000 people in India. It means that most people in India go untreated by doctors for substance abuse, severe depression, and psychotic disorders. Instead, they turn to the gods.
People are more reluctant to reveal they have a mental illness than to come out as gay, according to a new study that reaffirms warnings from campaigners that mental illness still faces a persistent social taboo.
Larry snapped after a weekend with his father. It was a Tuesday morning, only days before the start of summer vacation, after a pretty successful school year. He dashed through the halls, throwing books, punching other kids, and generally disrupting the small school for the learning disabled he attends in Silver Spring, Md. Larry got so wild, finally, that Principal William Patterson called his mother to take him home.
Read the rest of Larry's story in the article below.