Adolescent Mental Health and Care Giving: Are Indian Parents Informed
and Sensitive?
As individuals
of the 21st century everyone is exposed quite well to the happenings
all over the world in regard to mental health of adolescents and how they are
treated and now these things matter to people.
From the day to day happenings that
come up in the various forms of media we can say that only in the developed
parts of our country adolescent mental health is something that people give a
thought. But in the other parts people never consider it unless and until it is
very serious.
Mental health problems like
anxiety, depression that are not expressed as well as the complex problems like
schizophrenia or substance abuse go unrecognized and this is only because
parents are not that much informed about these problems. Lack of knowledge on
these problems also makes them unaware of the situation of their child.
In one of the most recent cases in
a famous school of Kolkata, where a class 10 student committed suicide in a
very menacing way and till this occurred no one in the family or friends knew
about the mental condition of the girl, how much she was suffering throughout
her childhood and more surprisingly this city took place in a metropolitan city
like Kolkata.
Parents except some are not much
aware about the mental health of teenagers compared to the developed countries.
As a result they are not able to give sufficient care and mental support to
their children. Probably here we can blame the generation gap and the typical orthodox
Indian mentality of parents. But as time is passing by the new generations are
becoming more aware and educated of the problems about adolescents’ mental
health and hopefully soon they will become a sensitive, care-giving set of
modern parents.
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