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Practically no help for Pakistan’s 14 million mentally ill people — a vast majority of them women, their illness made worse by the social stigma associated with it, says Irum Sarfaraz in his blog All Things Pakistan

If one was to analyze the worst of all afflictions of the Pakistani society, then mental illnesses and the stigmas attached to it would, in all probability, top the list.
Perhaps not so much for the actual damage they render to the suffering individual but for the other spin-off consequences that result as a direct cause of mental problems. The shame associated with mental illness, even if just depression, permeates every class of the society indiscriminately and the women are the worst casualties of it.

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