Srinagar, Aug. 26 -- The National Conference on Child Psychiatry (NCPC) 2025, held at SKIMS Medical College Hospital (MCH), Bemina, ended with an urgent and unequivocal message that we can no longer afford to treat child and adolescent mental health as a peripheral issue. What has emerged from the two-day gathering of mental health professionals, educators, and policy experts is a stark call to action that demands immediate, coordinated, and systemic reform across both the health and education sectors. The mental health crisis is real. Anxiety, depression, behavioural disorders, and suicide among children and adolescents are on the rise across the country and J&K is not immune. The mental health of our youth is under siege, and the instit...