India ranks 126th out of 146 countries in the World Happiness Index, indicating low levels of happiness. The decline has been attributed to the mental health crisis in the country, worsened by the Covid-19 pandemic. Sales of antidepressants and mood stabilizers have seen a significant increase, with a 41% surge in India and a 35% rise in Gujarat. The overall sale of drugs related to neurological and central nervous system therapy has also increased by 28%.
Families of mentally ill people have long turned to faith healers for help. Now, psychiatrists are trying to take modern medicine to religious centres.
The doctor who got into trouble with the state government, during the first wave of Covid last year, has died of a cardiac arrestSudhakar, who was working as a government doctor, had been suspended from service, for venting his ire against the .
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