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  • Nearly 40 percent of Europeans suffer mental illness

    09/05/2011 12:26:29 PM PDT · by Free ThinkerNY · 35 replies
    Reuters ^ | Sept. 4, 2011 | Kate Kelland
    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...