The deaths of three sisters who jumped from their ninth-floor apartment in Ghaziabad have underscored long-standing concerns among psychiatrists that many young people in India with mental health challenges remain undiagnosed and without help. While investigators attempt to probe the precise sequence of events and the possible influence of an online game, which allegedly originated in South Korea, psychiatrists cautionthat such an outcome typically points to deeper pre-existing mental health challenges. “This is most unlikely to have been an impromptu outcome of a single trigger event,” said Deepak Raheja, a psychiatrist in New Delhi and director of Hope Care India, a mental health treatment centre. Members of the Indian Psychiatry Society had cautioned last month that a vast majority of patients with mental health disorders remain undiagnosed and do not receive timely or adequate treatment. Experts say stigma and low awareness often cause early mental health symptoms to be dismissed and attributed instead to stress, personal weakness, or fleeting mood changes.

Source: The Telegraph February 05, 2026 02:10 UTC