How To Deal With Mental Health?

Hello friends,

My name is Dr. Prabhjeet Singh and I am a psychologist. As soon as say the word psychologist a lot of you must be thinking that I am a doctor who deals with mental patients. But I am not a doctor who deals with mental patients but I deal with mental health. And I know as Indian scenario as soon as we talk about mental health the first word that comes to our mind is mental and we don't deal with mental things. See it is ok if you are suffering from some mental issues like for example if you are suffering from stomach ache for 2 days we visit a physician and we take the medicine then why not if you are suffering from mental health issue why do hesitate to visit a psychologist?

There is an upcoming term which we use very often which is called depression. Nowadays we all use this word from two days I am into depression, from 3 days I am into depression. You might be and you might not be but how many of you have actually visited a psychologist to get your self-assessed properly, none I guess. Same is the case with child mental health. We are ready to spend 500 rupees on our children when we go to a movie theatre, we buy a movie ticket, we buy them popcorn, we buy them cold drinks but how many of us are ready to spend 500 or 1000 rupees for if our child is facing mental health issue and we think we should take him to the psychologist.

I think none because I don't know why we hesitate in such situation maybe it's the society that we think that our children are having some psychiatric issues or mental or in Hindi pagal. I don't think if you are having a mental health issue then we should term as mental. It is just like we are having some issue and mean to get it rectified so I urge everybody who is listening to this video if you think you have some mental health related issue, you should not hesitate to visit a psychologist please do come forward, we are also doctors we are not psychiatric or as you say those people who deal with proper mental kind of a thing. We are there to help you. Please come forward, don't hesitate.

Thank you!