Our medical science was very much developed but then we have always been blind to our own potentials in our scramble for everything west. You have been in practise for over a decade. Dr Raj Kumar has served as the medical health advisor to the Government of Uttar Pradesh government for two years and as an advisor to the Aligarh University for the establishment of their psychiatric wing and for the development of their syllabus, both clinical and academic. He has conducted a year-long program on invitation for the All India Radio on human behavioural problems. I have over this decade treated patients of all ages and one of the primary reasons I have observed for people's pain is the indifference of the present day Indians to traditional values and obsession with materialism.
Mindless commercialisation is the reason behind most of the psychological disorders in India.
Material needs dominate the psyche and this demand loses so easily to emotional satisfaction. We have cracked up institutions like joint family and marriage because of our blatant and foolish following of the West without appreciating and looking for meaning in what they have to offer. We have emulated the easiest habits from the West. It is painful to observe the quality of human life, its hypocrisy and the superficial relationships that prevail today. People are always stressed.