Depression is a mental disorder which is becoming a very common health issue among the world. According to the recent reports, Bollywood’s well known actor Sushant Singh Rajput also became the victim of depression and committed suicide. It has been proven that the main reason of suffering from depression is loneliness and overthinking which causes sadness, anger and starts affecting a person’s everyday life.
Depression is the serious medical condition which is not valued and looked into most of the people in India. According to the data available, it is clearly shaown that the affective disorders ranges from 12%-21%, in the clinic based studies and 0.1%-6.9% in community studies. The estimation done by the World Health Organization shows that there are 4.4% of the world population which is 322 million people, suffering from depression and is mostly found in children and adolescents. World Health Organization has also mentioned that India is the most depressed country in the world along with The United Sates and China. Reports also shows that the average suicide rate in India is 10.9 for every lakh person. Depression can be dealt easily by consulting a psychaitrists, psychologist and doctors but India lacks these professionals.