Of late psychiatrists are seeing mental health issues cropping up in early teens, said Sudha Seshayyan, Vice-Chancellor of the Tamil Nadu Dr. MGR Medical University.
At the inauguration of the three-day international conference on Schizophrenia, iConS X, she cited statistics from the Schizophrenia Research Foundation (Scarf), which is organising the event.
“It is disturbing that teens have already started developing mental health problems. Mental health disturbances start somewhere around early teens, at 13 and 14 (years of age). As we look at society today, certain facts do hit us,” she said and pointed out that while the inhibition to seek psychiatric help had fallen several conditions, including changes in lifestyle and food habits, had pushed an individual to mental health disturbances.
