What Mental Health Problems Pakistani Immigrants Are Facing?
Pakistan ranks sixth in the world in terms of the number of its immigrants. About 9 million Pakistanis are living abroad. Most of them live in the Middle East, but a large number of overseas Pakistanis also live in Western countries. Like UK, USA, Europe etc. There are currently 1.5 million Pakistanis living in the UK, while there are 554,202 in the US, 215,560 in Canada, 124,000 in Germany, 122,884 in Italy, 104,000 in France, 197,220 in Australia and 91,632 in Spain. Pakistanis going to western countries have to face many other problems along with poor citizenship In which mental health problems are noteworthy. According to a study, the various mental problems faced by immigrants depend on several factors. These include lack of proficiency in English, different cultural identities, distance from close family relationships, and lack of opportunities to use professional skills, pre-migration stressors, and problems adjusting to a new country.
Causes of Mental Problems In Europe:
Migrants and asylum seekers are traumatized even before they migrate. They face various dangers and cause trouble, mental problems for the rest of the family back home.
Pakistani Immigrants And Mental Problems
According to a renowned researcher and psychologist, this syndrome is linked to immigrants. This syndrome has two characteristics. The first features arise from psychological stress and the desire to escape, resulting in nostalgia, helplessness, anger, fear. Other symptoms include restlessness, hyperactivity (a state in which you worry more about your health), trouble sleeping, and anxiety or depression.
Depression Or Depression-Related Disorders
The most important mental health problem resulting from migration is depression or depression-related disorders. Depression is a chronic, recurrent disorder and the fourth leading cause of morbidity and disability in the world. This is because patients do not seek treatment and if they do, effective treatment is not used effectively. According to a researcher, children of Pakistanis born in the UK are more likely to have anxiety, depression and suicidal thoughts. According to one report, the rate of suicide attempts was found to be much higher among Asian women than among white farm women. According to the researchers who conducted these studies, the root cause of all these problems is culture clash.
Drug Use
Drug use or (substance abuse) is also a type of mental disorder that affects the mind and behavior of any person, due to which he fails to control the use of drugs, alcohol and other illegal drugs. Is. In the second generation of Pakistani immigrants, especially those children who were born in western countries, the symptoms of this disorder have been found more, because the use of alcohol and other drugs is common in western countries, so the children of Pakistani immigrants are addicted to these drugs. They lose their senses. As a result, not only the youth but also their parents would suffer from mental problems.
It is quite difficult to avoid these mental problems while living in the West, but if immigrants adopt the positive aspects of Western society and avoid the negative effects, they can avoid these diseases.
