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Mumbai: A group of psychiatrists has expressed concern over a local court asking actor Aamir Khan's younger brother Faisal Khan, who suffers from psychosis, to report to a police station every alternate day.
"We believe that the mentally ill get stigmatised when equated to criminals and are asked to report to a police station as in the case of Faisal," says Henal Shah, a psychiatrist specialising in the care of children.
"We have highlighted Faisal's case since he symbolises the thousands of such patients who should not stop their medications without the advice of the treating psychiatrist."
Faisal, a failed actor as compared to his elder brother, went missing on October 12 and police later traced him to Khandala, a hill station near Pune.
He was produced before a court here which sent him for psychiatric tests at J.J. Hospital which said that Faisal was suffering from a schizo-affected psychosis (a thought disorder which may affect mood).
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