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As high as one in seven Indians suffered from mental disorders of varying severity in 2017, including depression, anxiety disorders, schizophrenia and bipolar disorders, shows the first comprehensive estimates of disease burden due to mental disorders and their trends from 1990 published in The Lancet Psychiatry by the India State-Level Disease Burden on Monday.

Depression and anxiety were the most common mental disorders, with 45.7 million having depression and 44.9 million suffering from anxiety disorders, of the 197.3 million Indians suffering from mental disorders in 2017.