Kathmandu, October 9 Psychiatrists complain that they do no get respect as other medical professionals in the country. As a result very few MBBS students opt for psychiatry and mental health courses. According to Jaghannath Lamichhane, a mental health counsellor, there are some 100 psychiatrists in the country.  “Due to various reasons very few students opt to study psychiatry  and mental health courses,” said Lamichhane. Psychiatrists working at hospitals also do not get the kind of respect other doctors get from people and from fellow workers. “Psychiatrists themselves suffer from frustration and disappointment for opting this profession due to the negative attitude of fellow workers towards them,” he said. People in the country are still unwilling to express their mental health problems openly. According to World Health Organisation, 25 per cent of people in the country have mental health problems but none of them open up about their problems and share with their friends and family. Mental health problems can be treated and one should not hesitate to express openly. Awareness among the people is very much important. World Mental Health Day marked KATHMANDU: World Mental Health Day was marked across the country on Tuesday with the theme ‘Young people and mental health in a changing world’. At a programme organised by Epidemiology and Disease Control Division to mark the day, child psychiatrist Dr Arun Kunwar said,  “Mental health problems are more common than we think.” According to World Federation for Mental Health, every one in four people experience mental illness at any given year, one in five child and adolescents suffer from mental illness and one in six deaths of women between 15 and 45 years of age is prone to committing suicide. Nearly 5,000 people commit suicide and 100,000 attempt suicide each year. A research conducted among transgenders between 15 and 29 years of age shows that 51 per cent of them thought about suicide and 30 per cent attempted suicide at some point in their lives.Of the total health budget, only four per cent has been separated for mental healthcare.Dr Basudev Pandey, a psychiatrist, said  mental health problems could be genetic or generated by the mental pressure of day-to-day life. “We have been planning to increase budget for the health sector,” said Minister of State for Health and Population Dr Surendra Kumar Yadav.