Mental Disorders

What is mental health?

Mental health refers to your emotional and psychological well-being. Good mental health helps you lead a relatively happy and healthy life, and helps you cope in the face of life's adversities. It can be influenced by many things, including life events and your genetics.

• Keeping a positive attitude
• Staying physically active
• Helping other people
• Getting enough sleep
• Eating a healthy diet
• Asking for professional help when you need it
• Spending time with people whose company you enjoy
• Building coping skills that actually work for you

What is mental illness?

Mental illness is a broad term covering a wide variety of conditions that affect the way you feel and think, and your ability to get through day-to-day life. It can be influenced by genetics, environment, daily habits and biology.

How common is it?

Mental health issues are common worldwide. In the United States, about one in five adults experiences at least one mental illness each year, and about one in five young people aged 13 to 18 experiences one at some point. The figures in Pakistan are higher still — around 34%.

Although mental illness is common, severity varies. About one in 25 adults experiences a serious mental illness in a given year, which can significantly reduce the ability to carry out daily life.

Conditions we treat

• Depression and persistent depressive disorder
• Bipolar disorder (manic depression)
• Generalized anxiety disorder, panic attacks and social anxiety
• Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)
• Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
• Schizophrenia
• Attention deficit disorder — ADHD in children, ADD in adults
• Addiction, alcohol addiction and drug abuse
• Adolescent problems and early parenting issues
• Children's educational and developmental problems
• Concentration problems, emotional outbursts, tic disorders
• Dementias and geriatric problems
• General psychiatry and neurological disorders

Confidential online telemedicine consultations are available, so you can speak to your doctor from the privacy of your home.

Our doctors

Our doctors trained in the U.S.A. at leading hospitals and are American Board Certified — the highest degree of specialisation — with over 30 years of experience in the U.S.A. treating patients and teaching other doctors how to diagnose and treat mental disorders.