Interview: Question & Answer format

Interviewee: Malathi Nairi, an clinical psychologist

Interviewers: Preethi Rizia Eunice and Christta


1. How do you define Mental Health?

Ans: Mental Health is the well being of the emotional, psychological and social parameters. It affects the thought process, feelings and actions of the individuals. It also throws light on how effectively we function under stressful conditions, decision making and how well we relate to one another.

2. How important is Mental Health in today's generation?

Ans: In  today's generation, depression is on a rapid rise due to which the number of suicides due to depression are also increasing. This is seen in children, teenagers and adults as well. In order to bring this under curb, and to bring the mental health issues under are supposed to be identified, addressed and treated on time to prevent subjects from taking such extreme measures. Mental health has become a growing concern which has to be addressed at the earliest.

3. According to you what are the underlying causes of depression?

Ans: There are various causes for depression, some of them are:

. Childhood Trauma

. Physical Harassment and Abuse

. Sexual Harassment and Abuse

. Verbal abuse

. Incidents that have an adverse effect, eg, losing someone close to us.

. Problems between Parents and Children

. Broken relationships

. Genetics, etc

4. According to you is mental health a taboo or is it something that needs immediate attention?

Ans: Mental Health is something that needs immediate attention; since ignoring mental health issues can lead to  very extreme situations. Ignoring these situations can lead to lower self confidence of the people. This leads to the downfall of the person mentally, emotionally, academically and so on. The person  either ends up depressed and mentally disturbed. Mental health should be addressed as soon as possible.

5. How do you think does a physical ailment differ from a mental ailment?

Ans: A physical ailment can either be a wound, a fever, an ache, etc. This can be cured with proper and timely treatment. This lasts for a period of days, weeks, months and in some cases years. This can be healed with the help of medicines.

Whereas, in mental ailments, it can be caused by trauma, verbal, physical and/or sexual abuse and harassment. Here ailments are a result of suppressing all the emotions due to trauma, etc. This in turn leads to the subject not being able to open out to people, or seek help. This can play a major part in making or breaking of a person. Here, more attention is required and treatment includes not only medicines but also counselling, therapy, lifestyle changes, environmental changes, etc.

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