World Mental Health Day 2022: Prevalence and Rising Burden of Mental Health Conditions A lowdown on different types of mental health problems, how they are catching on, and what can be done to prevent rising incidences of mental illness Mental illnesses are serious conditions that affect your emotions, behaviour, thinking, and overall well-being 1. The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) has defined mental illnesses as dysfunctions of the brain 2. The percentage of people experiencing one of the many mental health disorders has advanced significantly over the past decade, posing a severe burden on the healthcare system worldwide. In the pre-pandemic period of 2019, one in every eight people, which equates to 970 million people globally, were experiencing disorders like anxiety and depression. The following year recorded a significant jump in the number of these cases, and data indicates it to be a 26% and 28% increase, respectively3. As…