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Lack of economic health and mental
By Karina Moreno Rojas
⊙ Increased suicide and mental illness due to the economic crisis. ⊙
occurs every 40 seconds a suicide. ⊙
154 million people suffer from depression worldwide.
Just a few days ago was reported as lack of economic health or stability in their pockets, has created havoc on the mental level with depression, stress, tension and nervousness that come to trigger epileptic seizures, violence, addiction (alcohol and drugs) and even suicide.
The economic crisis and global insecurity causes illness and imbalance between the emotions of individuals and their environment, experts at the Research Institute of Social and Clinical Psychology at a round table created on the occasion of World Mental Health who held on 11 October.
For example, about a week ago, an American man in Los Angeles killed five family members and himself, according to the letter he left, the reason that led him to do so was their precarious economic situation, triggered by the current global crisis.
Therefore, under the context of the celebration of World Mental Health, the director general of the World Health Organization (WHO), Margaret Chan, said in Geneva that the current global economic crisis will affect the amount of suicide and mental illness, so that "we should not be surprised" by the consequences of the financial crisis.
According to the above, every 40 seconds a suicide occurs, ie a year take their own lives and 877 000 people are expected due to the stressful circumstances that are currently live, the death rate in this way increase.
What is the situation in Mexico? In our country, six of every 20 Mexicans have had a mental disorder, and 3 out of 20 cases developed the problem in the past 12 months, according to the Ministry of Health, coincidence? I think not.
figures are alarming WHO contributed just 10 days ago, mentioning that worldwide 154 million People suffering from depression in varying levels. It is even more worrying that despite having the opposite problem little is being done about it, only 2.5 percent of patients are treated.
Dr. Benedetto Saraceno, director of the Mental Health Department of WHO, said that Mexico has fewer psychiatric and in bad conditions and they do not consider depression as a priority issue, but in Chile and Brazil already takes into account the disease within the treatments offered basic social insurance in these countries.
Governments inject dollars into the crisis and injected Who awareness to people about the need for professional help? It may take up to 30 years before a mentally ill person receives any treatment. For example, a drug addict usually takes 10 years to accept their problem and seek help, according to data presented in Geneva by María Elena Medina Mora, director of Epidemiology and Social Research National Institute of Psychiatry Ramon de la Fuente.
And while the economy slumps and requires the participation of all to generate global productivity, increased depression and anxiety causes absenteeism and increases the problem. Everything is a "pretty vicious circle" where the economy humiliating illnesses and diseases causing a sinking economy.
Lack of economic health and mental
By Karina Moreno Rojas
⊙ Increased suicide and mental illness due to the economic crisis. ⊙
occurs every 40 seconds a suicide. ⊙
154 million people suffer from depression worldwide.
Just a few days ago was reported as lack of economic health or stability in their pockets, has created havoc on the mental level with depression, stress, tension and nervousness that come to trigger epileptic seizures, violence, addiction (alcohol and drugs) and even suicide.
The economic crisis and global insecurity causes illness and imbalance between the emotions of individuals and their environment, experts at the Research Institute of Social and Clinical Psychology at a round table created on the occasion of World Mental Health who held on 11 October.
For example, about a week ago, an American man in Los Angeles killed five family members and himself, according to the letter he left, the reason that led him to do so was their precarious economic situation, triggered by the current global crisis.
Therefore, under the context of the celebration of World Mental Health, the director general of the World Health Organization (WHO), Margaret Chan, said in Geneva that the current global economic crisis will affect the amount of suicide and mental illness, so that "we should not be surprised" by the consequences of the financial crisis.
According to the above, every 40 seconds a suicide occurs, ie a year take their own lives and 877 000 people are expected due to the stressful circumstances that are currently live, the death rate in this way increase.
What is the situation in Mexico? In our country, six of every 20 Mexicans have had a mental disorder, and 3 out of 20 cases developed the problem in the past 12 months, according to the Ministry of Health, coincidence? I think not.
figures are alarming WHO contributed just 10 days ago, mentioning that worldwide 154 million People suffering from depression in varying levels. It is even more worrying that despite having the opposite problem little is being done about it, only 2.5 percent of patients are treated.
Dr. Benedetto Saraceno, director of the Mental Health Department of WHO, said that Mexico has fewer psychiatric and in bad conditions and they do not consider depression as a priority issue, but in Chile and Brazil already takes into account the disease within the treatments offered basic social insurance in these countries.
Governments inject dollars into the crisis and injected Who awareness to people about the need for professional help? It may take up to 30 years before a mentally ill person receives any treatment. For example, a drug addict usually takes 10 years to accept their problem and seek help, according to data presented in Geneva by María Elena Medina Mora, director of Epidemiology and Social Research National Institute of Psychiatry Ramon de la Fuente.
And while the economy slumps and requires the participation of all to generate global productivity, increased depression and anxiety causes absenteeism and increases the problem. Everything is a "pretty vicious circle" where the economy humiliating illnesses and diseases causing a sinking economy.
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