This fortnight’s Mind Matters column of the Editor-in-Chief of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®), Shyamanta Das in Horizon, the Friday supplement with The Assam Tribune, titled “Physical illnesses in psychiatric patients” discusses the original article, “Physical illnesses among psychiatric inpatients in a tertiary care setup” by Bharat Udey and Vijay Niranjan, published in the January-June 2020, Volume 11 Issue 1 of OJPAS®.