Belén González is the first commissioner for Mental Health in the Ministry of Health. Her priority is to improve the networks that treat the seriously mentally ill.

The ministry has the authority to call for training places for clinical psychologists or psychiatrists. Spain is far below the European Union, both in the number of clinical psychologists and psychiatrists. The commissioner has no power to change all that, but to look at the causes of the discomfort: whether it is housing, job insecurity or mental health. The bulk of the suffering right now has to do with living conditions.