By Our Reporter
SHILLONG: The World Mental Health Day was observed in the city on Wednesday at SANKER with a seminar on ‘Depression: A Global Crisis’, which highlighted effects and cause of depression.
The seminar was held with an aim to disseminate information and expel myth and stigma about the treatment. Detailed presentation was made by Dr A Nongpiur of SANKER.
The theme for this year’s World Mental Health Day has been adopted following the concerns expressed by the World Health Organization (WHO) which ranked unipolar depressive disorders as the third leading cause of diseases in 2004 and which is expected to take the first place by 2013.
The aim of the World Mental Health Day is to encourage governments and civil societies around the world to address depression as a widespread illness and to recognize the fact of it being a treatable condition.