Any health ailments necessitate a visit to a clinic or a doctor. Along similar lines, if someone is too alienated in mind and is deprived of proper thinking, he/she may seek help from a psychologist. If the ailment passes to a higher degree, the person may need a visit to the hospital. Unlike in the olden days, now there is an array of treatment methods for people experiencing an imbalance in mind. Albeit the progress in treatments and science, the people by large are still dithering when it comes to accepting mentally suffering ones. Most of the hapless ones are considered second-class citizens.

The world has transcended big adopting newer lifestyles and cultures. The old archetypal ways are long lost, evident from the daily nous of many people. Along with modern living comes the shackles that hold tight the people. The hassle of work and the minimum time they got to spend with the family adds up to this. In schools, many students are loners, and reticent and may be bullied for their physique. Academically weakened ones are subjected to repeated torture from parents and teachers alike. Students also tend to distance themselves from that one single child, gifting discordance in the mind.

In the olden days, black magic and other occult rituals maintained the spot as the prudent form of cure. In movies, semblance was seen when mentally suffering people were rushed for electric shocks. However, those days are history and now, the world is sufficient with medicines and counseling to help anyone come better out of this abyss. But whatever the solutions, the mindset of people is still cemented strong in the old archetypal ways. There exists a stigma in society that stymies people from going amicable with people suffering mentally.

Take for example the cruel fate of nearly 100 people in the Peroorkada mental hospital.53 men and 47 women were recently discharged after coming out of their mental distress. But dismally, their joys were cut short after no family members made it to the hospital to take them back. Such orphaned people will be shifted to government old age homes as per the Human rights Commission recommendation. Many people who have at least had one fated experience with the mental hospital are considered an outcast and is not entertained back home. The scenario has long occupied a fixed seat in the social milieu of Kerala. Also, consider the financial burden of such middle-class families to accommodate and help treat their relatives. So, it is up to the government to provide a blanket of hope to the orphaned ones.

Imprisoned convicts who went for mental treatments shall be received back in jail. Special mental health care will be started inside the jail compound opines the jail DGP. The government on its part needs to start more homes to accommodate such people within our society. If prepared a project that outlines the predicament of many such lives, the central government will not play hesitant but will provide the fund to the state to start many such homes. Whatever the progress, nothing can take away the cruel fate of living incarcerated inside the hospital even after coming clear of all such illnesses.