“I was born in one of the remote areas of Chitral nwfp Pakistan. I had high hopes to become an Engineer, but my family was very poor. When I reached the 4th class of primary school I became sick and everything changed suddenly.
One day when I was walking through the jungle to reach my home I felt a heavy pressure on my mind. I started shivering and then lost consciousness. When I woke up, I found all my family members and the spiritual healer around me. After that everyday I used to have Jinn, Pari the bad evil spirit that enters the body. It used to take me to the top of the mountains and throw me down on the earth. I was always covered in abrasions and spot of injury from these episodes. Also, Jinn, Pari and bad evil spirits would beat my parents. They were unable to control me so they locked me in a room and fed me through a hole in the wall. I was so scared and I cried a lot. I visited many Ziarat and spiritual healers, but still I was sick.
I was unable to continue my school. I used to die many times inside my heart when I see my colleagues going to school. A friend told me that there is treatment for me in the Aga Khan Hospital; but there was no one to take me there. Now I am 26 years old, and I still have attacks from Jinn everyday; sometime I fall on the road, into the ditches and bushes. Children make fun of me because of my strange behaviors. I want to go for suicide, but I am afraid of dying.
I am becoming weaker and weaker day by day. My appetite has decreased; I only want to inhale smoke. Nobody likes to talk to me even my parents. Life has no meaning for me.”
This was the story of J Khan my class mate and an intelligent boy in primary school. He suffered from a severe mental illness called Schizophrenia and died at age 26 because he was not taken to the hospitals for treatment. J Khan could have been saved of this terrible fate. If we teach our communities about mental illnesses so the others living in misery can be saved of a similar fate.
Mukhtar Ali Khan Hayat,
Kabul Afghanistan,
06 March 09.
via CHITRAL NEWS… Bringing you the latest News & Views from Chitral.
Ismailimail 
YAM Mukhtar,
I was very touched by your story. In view of economic challenges its quite imperative that our culture and our traditional views do not work against each other; but help us understand conditions such as the one you spoke of in any society. I have a book that I would like to mail you if this is ok. can you forward your address to me. Thank you for sharing this story.
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its verey sad realy.every need to help others if he can affort this is a verrey short life so we do help each others .so plz and plz i call to every one if u have something to help some boady u shod do that .
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THANKS FOR THE COMMENTS DEAR. mukhtar_hayat@hotmail.com
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this was a very terrible and unbelieveable situation.we should helf those peoples who r facing such kind of mental illness. this is a responsibility of the to treat them but they not show a humantarian.iam very dissappointed after read this tragic story.
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IF we safe the life of one humain being then we safe all humanity.but in this situation one show mercy. i requested to all the peoples that please compllete ur responsibility of humanity.remember that a ALLAH has created u from a single soul.dont do this again OK.
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SAHIBJAN (BOONI)
if we safe the life of one humain being then we all humantiy. but in this situation one show mercy.
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I was bron in one remote aera booni.I had high hope become an manager my family was very poor.when reached the class 6th of privat school i became sick and everything change suddenly.
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