New Delhi: The government has released a shocking report on mental health. As you may have heard so far, only women and men have been diagnosed with depression, but the report found that 15 percent of the world’s adolescents suffer from some form of mental illness. Most children’s mental illness is due to their physical disability. One out of every 20 children under the age of five suffers from a mental illness due to some developmental disability. In countries, 18% of the population is affected. The disease affects 11.5 percent of people in poor countries. Depression is on the rise in children for a number of reasons. The reasons for the increase in depression in children are study pressure, ban on outside activities due to covid, many children feel lonely and lonely, parents do not give more time, effect of family problems on children, children also become mentally ill due to single family. Some 20 million people have some form of mental illness.