INTERACTIVE ON DEPRESSION
Depression is one of the most common mental disorders affecting approximately 340 million people in the world. Everyone experiences variations in mood -- transitory blacks, disappointments and the normal grief that accompanies the loss of someone you love. But a severe or prolonged depression that interferes with the ability to function, feel pleasure, or maintain interest is not a mere case of the blacks.

SCHIZOPHRENIA
Schizophrenia is a chronic, severe, and disabling brain disease. Although schizophrenia affects men and women with equal frequency, the disorder often appears earlier in men, usually in the late teens or early twenties. The cause of schizophrenia is unknown. There are various theories to explain the development of this disorder.

ANXIETY DISORDER
Anxiety is the abnormal fear or reaction, towards any stress, which the person can normally handle. Generalized anxiety involves excessive worry about actual circumstances, events or conflicts. Some of the causes for Anxiety Disorder are stress, noise, a hostile home, life events, which has affected the person and repressed negative emotions.

OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER
Obsessive-compulsive disorder is the one, which is characterized by anxious thoughts or rituals, which the patient feels he or she cannot control. It strikes men and women in equal numbers and affects about 1 in every 50 people. Evidence shows that Obsessive Compulsive Disorder or OCD has a neurobiological basis. Neuro scans show that patients with OCD have a set pattern of brain activity that differs from people with no mental illness.

ATTENTION DEFICIT HYPERACTIVITY DISORDER
Children with ADHD are known to be impulsive, inattentive and hyperactive. Often these symptoms are present in most preschool and early school going children at some level. But whether the child is suffering from ADHD, it needs to be assessed by a qualified person. Some common symptoms of ADHD can thus be child's inability to sit still, causing disruption in school routine, one that acts before thinking, or is passive, or sluggish in any group activity, and shows poor concentration.

SUICIDE
Suicide may be defined as the deliberate ending of one's own life in an act of self-harm. Attempted suicide is the unsuccessful suicidal act. Certain forms of mental disorders like depression play a part in the 90% of the cases of suicides. Often personal crisis unleashes in man a sense of stress and mental isolation as he feels despair, grief, and hopelessness to control his situation. All these can eventually lead to suicide.