According to various mental health practitioners in the city, young people demand access to mental health care.
The young, however, frequently are unable to accomplish this because their parents refuse to recognise their illness and they cannot afford the care.
Organizations run campaigns to increase awareness and destigmatize treatment throughout October, which is designated as a mental health month. The difficulty for therapists and psychiatrists is to avoid upsetting the parents, because doing so can affect how they treat their children.
Treatment gaps frequently cause self-harming behaviours to return or have an adverse effect on the prognosis. There are parents that refuse to accept the state of their children. Young adults desire to receive treatment, but when their parents don’t support them, the treatment is stopped. Most of them cannot afford either the medication or the treatment, according to psychiatrist Sanjay Garg.
According to report of Telegraph “For us, the welfare of the young person is primary, so we cannot antagonise parents. We have to strike a balance between the child and the parent,” “There are some parents who bring their children to us to fix them. When we try to tell the parents that they need to change attitude, they get upset,”
“Parents attribute the condition to their children being lazy, instead of trying to understand them. Some parents challenge us with things like ‘how do you know my child is depressed’. We don’t have any concrete test to justify that.”