Islamabad 04th May 2019: A Charity event was organized by the Chairperson Concern for Mental Health Tehreem Siagol at Chak Shehzad, Islamabad to raise the awareness regarding the issues, challenges and solutions for mental healthcare. Ambassador Nila Choan, Ms, Nina Saeed, Lady Ghazala Hameed, Ambassador of Hungry, Brig. Zarrif & Ms. Ruby Malik along with the worthy diplomats, dignitaries, participants and activists from different of walks of life were invited to grace the event.
Moreover, to encourage people to opt for mental healthcare and treatment, experts and psychiatrists addressed the issue and also proposed solutions and innovative ideas to the concerned authorities to curb this issue in a practical and smooth way. 
Currently, Mental Health care is one of the burning issues worldwide which requires huge amount of solution seeking attention like never before, even the developed countries with higher standard of living are facing the increasing mental health issues. Mental disorders which are commonly found worldwide are: Schizophrenia, Bipolar Depression, Unipolar Depression, Anxiety, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorders, and Substance Dependency. The main issue is to encourage people enough to talk about it and accept it as any other disease and feel no shame in getting help. Mental health issues are always considered as taboo and not much talked about regardless of socio-economic conditions, which has eventually caused an extravagant increase in the issue.
On this occasion, CFMH Founder & Chairperson Ms. Ghazala Afzal Hameed said “now it is the high time to create awareness regarding the mental healthcare among the masses and also to educate them about its treatments and medication. The biggest challenge in this regard is to change the mindset and preconceived notions of people related to mental healthcare and treatment.n 2015, there were only 380 trained psychiatrists in Pakistan which mean 1 psychiatrist for 500,000 people, whereas Government devotes only 0.4% of their budget on mental healthcare which is alarming and not suffice. Suicide is amongst the top ten leading causes of death in the developing part of the world.
