The statistics are here. And, they are grim. Mumbai has the maximum number of unhappy people, those requiring psychiatric treatment, loosely proving Martin Luther King Jr's famous line true - the richer we have become materially, the poorer we are spiritually. Disposal incomes of Mumbaikars have risen manifold over the years, yet the quality of life has not kept pace.

Even more worrying is that earlier, patients were mostly among the elderly, with mental illness being a natural progression of age, but today, children as young as ten are being brought in for diagnosis and treatment. Low self-esteem among children, thanks to absentee parents, over-exposure to multiple media, high-earning parents overcompensating with expensive gadgets, unmindful of the fact that their child would need careful monitoring with its use, are the basis for the eventual mental decline. Today, selfie addiction, Internet addiction and cyber bullying are very real and very big problems.