#61 - PUBG Ban and Teen Mental Health

In this episode we want to shine a light on teen mental health. 3 teenager suicides took place around June of this year, one after another. All of these suicides were linked by authorities to a popular video game called Playerunknown's Battlegrounds, or PUBG. The Pakistan Telecommunications Authority (PTA) responded by putting a temproary bank on the game on July 1st, calling it "addictive, and waste of time". The ban was lifted a few weeks later, but it had already started a flurry of discussions and feedback on the internet. This episode's guest: Aisha Sanober. Aisha is a child psychiatrist in Pakistan, and one of very few people in the country to have completed a fellowship in adolescent psychiatry. She is a much-needed expert in a starving field that doesn't get enough focus in Pakistan - the mental health of our youth. The focus of this discussion is to answer the question : are video games the actual problem here, or is it something else ? And what can we, both parents and children, do to mitigate this issue? Follow / Contact Aisha - Email: asccamhpk@outlook.com - Instagram: aishasc87 - Twitter: @AishaSChachar - LinkedIn: Gulf News Article:

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#61 - PUBG Ban and Teen Mental Health is an episode from Pak-Cord: a Pakistani Podcast by Red.

This episode is 00:35:49 long.

This episode was published on Aug 9, 2020.

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