Seventy per cent of callers to a mental health rehabilitation helpline desk were men, said the mental health bulletin by the Social Justice and Empowerment (SJE) Ministry.
As per a report by The Hindu, a large number of callers to mental health rehabilitation helpline were men, which included around 32% of young adults or college students.
The ‘Kiran’ Mental health rehabilitation helpline was launched on September 7, 2020, by the Social Justice and Empowerment (SJE) Minister Thaawarchand Gehlot. From September 16, 2020, to January 15, 2021, the helpline received 13,550 new calls, of which 70.5% were from males and 29.5% from females, the report said.
The report said that around 65.9% had a “milder nature of distress”, while 26.5% were “moderately distressed” and 7.6% were “severely distressed”. Nearly, 32.3% of the callers were students, while 15.2% were self-employed, 27.1% were employed, 23.3% were unemployed, 1.4% were home-makers and 0.7% did not reveal the…