siliconindia | | December 201919HOW AWARE ARE WE ABOUT MENTAL HEALTH?By Aman Iqbal, Founder, Vantage Enterpriseental Health is as critical as physical well-being. When we say that body is where we live, then mental wellness forms a substantial part of the human body. Self-awareness is the need of the hour that is enabling acceptance to a larger extent. Awareness is growing globally in the light of many individuals opening up about their struggles. This trend has been proving to become a catalyst in addressing and solving the issues around mental health in a country like ours. Advocacy is at its peak currently with many Governments, NGOs, corporates and influential people starting to discuss the issue of mental health in public domain. This has stirred a conversation and a need to sustain it among the people who are either vulnerable to or victims of poor mental health. The most common diseases that arise due to poor mental health are clinical depression, schizophrenia, personality disorder, bipolar disorder, autism, and ADHD to name a few. According to the statistics by WHO, there are more than 300 million people of all ages around the globe that suffer from depression and although there are known effective treatments for depression, less than 10 percent of the affected population receive such treatments. One of the major problems lies in our understanding of the disease at the biological level. Unlike diabetes, cancer, cardiovascular diseases and many other lifestyle disorders for which there are many biomarkers available for early detection and disease tracking for better interventional led treatment, there are no clear biomarkers Aman is a technology & healthcare visionary, an idea machine and a sharp-executer.MCXO InsightsAman Iqbal, Founder
< Page 9 | Page 11 >