A CASE was recently reported from Mardan on the Ministry of Planning’s Mental Health portal. The case described a 65-year-old male who had developed depressive symptoms after a spinal surgery in 1994. Subsequently, he began taking an addictive sleeping tablet.
In 2004, he had a relapse of his symptoms, this time after a prostate surgery. He consulted a psychiatrist who prescribed an anti-psychotic medication. He has been, unnecessarily, on these two medicines for the past two decades without further psychiatric review.