https://www.omicsonline.org/open-access/mental-health-pakistan-optimizing-brains-1522-4821-17-160.php?aid=37919

Inamullah Ansari, a “Mental Health Emergency and Human Resilience Solicitors Drug Crimes Criminal Defense” Lawyer, writes a very informative article on Mental Health in Pakistan, it is open for short communication and has a whatsapp number for all readers who are seeking helping.

https://www.dawn.com/news/1455826/mental-health-crisis

An informative article on mental health crisis by Bina Shah in January 2019. It highlights an important issue that the society of Pakistan ignores.

This is a thirty-minute video of the guidelines to a career in Psychology in Pakistan presented by career vision, a weekly program on PTV-News. Professionals explain the scope, nature of the work, different universities, and a variety of degrees offered in Psychology.

 Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is a global, self-governing, medicinal humanitarian establishment that distributes emergency assistance to individuals disturbed by armed conflict, epidemics, natural disasters and exclusion from healthcare. To celebrate mental health day this year, Mona and Bea from MSF have come to Timergara, Pakistan to promote and create awareness of mental health.

Shireen Shehzad, an alumna from Aga Khan University has used her passion for mental health awareness towards actively taking part in the research career in nursing. She has significantly studied the range of anxiety, depression, and life satisfaction among women in Pakistan, recognized challenges and worked out solutions. She shares with us her recent work in mental health promotion.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/curse-god-stigma-mental-illness-pakistan

This is an article on a little effort to bring about change in a widespread public health problem in Pakistan. It even presents a video in it. A special correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro from Agents for Change series is in conversation with psychiatrist Saadia Quraishy from the Pakistan-based Aman Foundation about the state of Pakistan regarding mental health.

• The Stigma of Mental Illness:
  In this daring talk, Sam Cohen, a high school sophomore, pleads us to treat mental disorders as the disorders that they really are and step higher as a culture in a tolerant and nurturing way in treating these disorders.
  In her talk, she expresses from what she has explored; what it means to be psychologically ill in our culture.

• Breaking the Stigma and Shame of Mental Illness:
   Kitty Westin, a licensed psychologist, created the Anna Westin Foundation following the death of her daughter from anorexia. Soon after Anna’s death, the foundation opened Minnesota’s first residential treatment program for eating disorders. Kitty is an activist for individuals suffering from eating disorders.
  Kitty expresses through tragic true stories and logical facts to aid the audience into realizing different methods to mold their thought process and join the battle to lessen stigma and shame.

• I Am Not A Monster: Schizophrenia:
  Cecilia McGough; an astronomer and a writer, is a mental health activist in fighting against the negative stigma towards mental illness. She is the founder and chief executive officer (CEO) of the soon to launch non-profit Students With Schizophrenia which is the only non-profit in the United States focused on empowering college students with schizophrenia.

This category will showcase professionals speaking about the illnesses and how we can treat them; they will normalize and convert the stigma behind Mental Health to solution.

1. There’s No Shame In Taking Care Of Your Mental Health:
   Sangu Delle, a TED fellow entrepreneur who’s from Ghana, talks about him confronting his own deep preconception: men shouldn’t worry about their mental health.
   In this talk, he conveys how he mastered controlling his anxiety in a place that is so uncomfortable with emotions.
   As he states: “Being honest about how we feel doesn’t make us weak — it makes us human.”

• Don’t Suffer From Depression In Silence:
  Nikki Webber Allen, a producer and activist, is operating to generate a nontoxic place for authentic discussions about mental health in societies of color. She states that having feelings isn’t a sign of weakness; it only means we’re human. She has her own experience as she was diagnosed with anxiety and depression yet felt too humiliated to voice it.
  In this vital talk about mental health, she declares overtly about her journey and why communities of color must unknot the stigma that misinterprets depression as a flaw and keeps victims from seeking aid.