Introduction
An understanding of the pathways to psychiatric care is critically important as a means of informing national policy and re-directing the meager resources towards better management of psychiatric patients. Since pathways to psychiatric care in South India are poorly understood we conducted a study in Mysore, South India to determine the various pathways to Psychiatric care. The aim is to determine the health-seeking behaviour of mentally ill patients and the attitude to mental illness and its treatment in Mysore, South India.