Author ORCID Identifier
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6428-9152
Abstract
Psychiatric illness in India is estimated to be 15% as per National Mental Health Survey 2015-16. Mental health challenges within families, especially depression, anxiety disorders that are not common and when unaddressed exert cascading effects on all members, disrupting emotional cohesion, relational functioning, and socioeconomic stability. There are few case reports on entire family presenting to psychiatry department.
With informed consent a city-based middle-class family of non-consanguineous origin, where the 40-year-old female, presented with intractable limb pains and health anxiety, she had multiple consultation in last few months and her 48-year-old husband also had with episodic pains, irritability and her 20-year-old daughter a medical student had irritability, and her 11-year-old youngest daughter had sleep issues collectively spending approximately Rs 1,00,000 annually on multiple, futile consultations and investigations across specialties.
Publication Date
2026
Publisher
JSS Academy of Higher Education & Research
Conflict of Interest
NIL
Keywords
family anxiety disorder, somatic symptom disorder, health anxiety, intractable limb pains, irritability, sleep disturbances, medically unexplained symptoms, familial transmission, high healthcare utilization, Family mental health
Recommended Citation
Arora V, Kosireddy M, Ananth M, Manohar Rao KM.
FAMILY MENTAL HEALTH – A CASE REPORT.
Digital Journal of Clinical Medicine.
2026;
8(2):
-.
doi:
https://doi.org/10.55691/2582-3868.1310
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