Reports suggest that one out of every seven children in India is suffering from some mental health problem. Mental health problems such as depression, restlessness, ADHD, and schizophrenia are common.
Do you know how many children get medical help in this case? The answer is hair-raising. The answer is less than 1 percent; reason? No one in India is trying to understand the mental problem.
Children are not aware of this problem, and parents also do not want to know about the problem because, in India, this kind of disease is considered insanity, which is understood against reputation and pretense.
But why are the children of India not happy? WHO contacted Indian children to find out. The dialogue was in a study, which led to the WHO’s conclusion, which is worth considering.
Conclusion of the WHO report
1st The Comparison
In every school, there is one student who is compared with other students in the class. Parents are more interested in the mark sheets of other children than their children’s. It doesn’t matter if your child scores more than others; he knows the answer to the rest.
Earlier, this comparison was limited to classrooms and relatives. But in today’s digital media era, when parents come to know the news of bringing 100 percent by others, parents compare their child with them.
Parents don’t realize that every kid is running in their race, and each has its unique characteristics. This attitude improves their child’s score and creates fierce rivalry between the children. There are flaws in India’s education system which need to be acknowledged.
What can we do about it?
First of all, it is necessary to stop this false comparison. If you want to compare, then compare the environment that the children are exposed to create an environment for the children in which their holistic development takes place.
2nd Social Media Addiction
Social media is a joyous invention, but on the other hand, it can also be a disaster. Paying attention to mobile for an online class and staying away from mobile while studying or doing homework is causing mental suffocation for children.
Due to which the restlessness increases. Dopamine is known as the feel-good hormone. Our body needs to have a balance of dopamine. But social media promotes this dopamine fast enough that we can get addicted to it.
The University of North Carolina scientist Paul Phillips experimented on rats. They increased the secretion of dopamine by giving an electric current to the rat’s brain. Along with it, they put a button in front of the mouse, which, when pressed, he would get an electric shock.
At first, the mouse anxiously pressed the button only once or twice. But gradually, he started getting addicted to this button. The mouse repeatedly pressed the button, even though it felt an electric shock to itself. The intoxication was so deep that he even gave up eating. Social media does the same to us.
What can we do about it?
So keep your child away from this addiction in a positive way.
3rd The Lockdown
Children in India already had more problems with mental stress. Schools closed for the last two years have severely impacted his mental health. Not every child has a good home condition. There are constant quarrels in one’s house which has a severe impact on the child’s mind.
Such children try to find family in their school or peers. Schools have been closed for the last two years without any fault. The exam will be online or offline. In such a situation, children start suffocating. Which, in the end, pushes them towards mental stress.
Again the same question is what can we do?
UNICEF has developed a kit to check children’s mental health and educate parents about the necessary steps. Irritability, isolation, eating too little or too much are symptoms of depression. Here, parents also need to understand that their child is not a trophy which you earn a name by showing in society.
Your child is not even a means to fulfill your unfulfilled dream. To show off in society, making your children do outside their desire and ability pushes them towards depression.
The environment of the house, the attitude towards the child, the way of communication all affect it. An important point to note here is that there is no shame in getting treatment for depression or mental problems.
Getting mental health therapy doesn’t make your child go insane. You cannot grow any flower anywhere you want. According to the specialist, environment, and direction of that flower, it will bloom at its favorable place. If you can understand that, that’s an essential thing.
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