Prevalence of mental illness
A
recent study showed that mental and psychological diseases ranging from
severe depression to wild tantrums are common in the world in a matter
of surprise that most bad cases are not treated.
Said Ronald Kessler of Harvard Medical School in Boston, who led the study for the World Health Organization said people did not hide their history illness psychological, and pointed out that the patients in some countries were more receptive to a statement that they are suffering from mental illness and psychological, such as obsessive-compulsive disorder and bulimia disorders following exposure to shocks psychological.
The study said that more studies are coordinated at the level of the world that the prevalence rates of these diseases vary from state to state, where symptoms of mental illness to 4.3% of the population of Shanghai during the past twelve months, while the figure was 26% in the United States.
"I always find high percentages in the United States and we do not know whether this is true or that people in the United States are more willing to recognize what are suffering."
Said Ronald Kessler of Harvard Medical School in Boston, who led the study for the World Health Organization said people did not hide their history illness psychological, and pointed out that the patients in some countries were more receptive to a statement that they are suffering from mental illness and psychological, such as obsessive-compulsive disorder and bulimia disorders following exposure to shocks psychological.
The study said that more studies are coordinated at the level of the world that the prevalence rates of these diseases vary from state to state, where symptoms of mental illness to 4.3% of the population of Shanghai during the past twelve months, while the figure was 26% in the United States.
"I always find high percentages in the United States and we do not know whether this is true or that people in the United States are more willing to recognize what are suffering."
Among
those interviewed in Japan 5% said they suffer from anxiety attacks,
and the percentage in China is less than 4% compared with 18% in the
United States, but Kessler said that rates for Japan and China low
unreasonably, because the rate of consumption of medicines Anti-anxiety is the highest in Japan, because China has the highest rate of suicide in the world.
The team included Kessler 100 experts assisted by three thousand to conduct interviews with more than 60 thousand people from adults in 14 countries, and participated in the team psychiatrists trained to detect symptoms is a psychiatric phenomenon.
The study showed that a large proportion of patients who suffer from mental illness severe do not get treatment at all while dealing Many who suffer from minor problems, according to the study, only 20% of patients in serious psychological in Lebanon and Ukraine, Colombia and Mexico receive the necessary treatment.
The team included Kessler 100 experts assisted by three thousand to conduct interviews with more than 60 thousand people from adults in 14 countries, and participated in the team psychiatrists trained to detect symptoms is a psychiatric phenomenon.
The study showed that a large proportion of patients who suffer from mental illness severe do not get treatment at all while dealing Many who suffer from minor problems, according to the study, only 20% of patients in serious psychological in Lebanon and Ukraine, Colombia and Mexico receive the necessary treatment.
