Posted on 09/05/2011 9:23:49 AM PDT by Dallas59
LONDON (Reuters) - Europeans are plagued by mental and neurological illnesses, with almost 165 million people or 38 percent of the population suffering each year from a brain disorder such as depression, anxiety, insomnia or dementia, according to a large new study.
With only about a third of cases receiving the therapy or medication needed, mental illnesses cause a huge economic and social burden -- measured in the hundreds of billions of euros -- as sufferers become too unwell to work and personal relationships break down.
"Mental disorders have become Europe's largest health challenge of the 21st century," the study's authors said.
At the same time, some big drug companies are backing away from investment in research on how the brain works and affects behavior, putting the onus on governments and health charities to stump up funding for neuroscience.
"The immense treatment gap ... for mental disorders has to be closed," said Hans Ulrich Wittchen, director of the institute of clinical psychology and psychotherapy at Germany's Dresden University and the lead investigator on the European study.
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I’d say that we have the same problem here in the USA. After all, 42% still say they’d vote for Obama next elelction! ;^(
Europe is almost half gone mad.
“Nearly 40% of Europeans suffer mental illness”
It’s that low?
Yep - 100% of Obama voters.
Funny what you see when you scrape away the utopian veneer.
Somebody has to vote for the socialists.
Yep....all in the same tree....singing away!
In other news, 40% of Europeans vote for leftist parties.
Seriously though, be careful about stories such as these. Every time the left gets in control properly, they always use the mental health system to control people.
A totalitarian sees a headline like that and sees dollar signs. A population labelled as mentally ill is a very easily controllable population.
Don’t allow your kid to get put on drugs. Once they’re in that system, who knows what trouble it will bring them in the future.
Sure, just ask a therapist. 40% of all cars need a tune-up, too - just ask a mechanic. :)
I was going to say that seemed low.
Oh, now that's a real good move toward a productive resolution.
If the American Psychiatric Society defines Eurosocialism as a mental disorder, then 90% of the continent would have to be institutionalized,
The hard core Socialists, hell we all knew that.
I think people who invent these stats are nuts.
sometimes the news just writes itself
Since liberalism is a mental disorder, I believe this percentage is a bit low.
It’s an improvement. During the 1930s, it was more like 80 to 90% throughout Germany and Italy.
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