#61 - PUBG Ban and Teen Mental Health

Pak-Cord: a Pakistani Podcast

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: [e-mail]

- Instagram: aishasc87

- Twitter: @AishaSChachar

- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-aisha-sanober-chachar/

Gulf News Article:

https://gulfnews.com/world/asia/pakistan/playerunknowns-battlegrounds-banned-in-pakistan-following-spate-of-suicides-1.72382025