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2021-04-11T23:40:46.631Z


Several friends have started taking antidepressants or anxiolytics. I see everywhere the easy tear and insomnia


According to the WHO, one in four people will suffer from some type of mental disorder in their lifetime.

I am in that quota, as I have already told on occasion;

From the age of 16 to 32 I had panic attacks with loss of contact with reality, agoraphobia and an indescribable and mute terror (the first thing mental illness takes away from you is the word).

The psychic suffering is so acute and the feeling of loneliness so absolute that they do not even remotely resemble what we believe to be suffering and loneliness when we are healthy.

I speak of different and alien realities, territories impossible to imagine if you have not traveled them.

That is why now I feel grateful to fate for having allowed me to know, in a temporary way, those abysses.

I don't know why I overcame them (although I have some hypotheses), but I know that I came out of there more empathetic and wiser.

Not all mental ailments have the same severity or the same prognosis.

There are panic attacks, obsessive compulsive disorders, bipolar disorders, psychosis ... More than 300 million people suffer from depression (a problem that has increased by 18% between 2005 and 2015) and some 800,000 people commit suicide each year (in Spain, 3,500) .

1% suffer from schizophrenia and 12.5% ​​of global health problems are due to mental illnesses, a figure higher than cancer or cardiovascular diseases.

And the worst thing is that between 35% and 50% of these people do not receive any treatment or it is not adequate (data from the Spanish Mental Health Confederation).

Well, the pandemic has fallen on all this.

With their fears and their deaths and their physical consequences, with infinite traumas and financial anguish, with loneliness and the lack of hugs.

Since the virus broke out, life is one of maddening helplessness and anomaly.

A study carried out by the WHO in 130 countries shows that, in 2020, the pandemic has disrupted or paralyzed the essential mental health services of 93% of the countries of the world (in Spain also: in confinement hospital admissions were reduced by 60 %).

And a Canadian meta-analysis of 55 investigations found that, in the first wave, post-traumatic stress increased by five, anxiety disorders by four, and depression by three.

As for our country, the Gregorio Marañón hospital in Madrid analyzed 300 relatives of those who died from covid and the incidence of pathological bereavement was 25%, when the normal is 2%.

There is a rise in work absenteeism attributable to psychic causes and both psychologist consultations and the use of psychotropic drugs have increased by 20%.

The latter is worrying, because Spain is one of the OECD countries that consumes the most tranquilizers (data taken from two great reports by Carmen Sánchez-Silva and Jessica Mouzo in EL PAÍS).

And, with which he is falling, that PP guy, Carmelo Romero, did he send Errejón to the doctor?

Poor man;

I think it's a clear example of how phosphatinated our heads are (then he apologized).

That pile of pills may try to alleviate the lack of doctors and resources.

It is denounced by the psychiatrist Guillermo Lahera: we invest 5.50 euros in mental health for every 100 of health spending, when the EU average is 7 euros.

And while in the United Kingdom there are 15 psychiatrists for every 100,000 inhabitants (in the Netherlands 20 and in Norway 29), in Spain there are 8. Yes, as Errejón said, we have to take this problem seriously.

Anyway, I only know that several of my closest friends have started taking antidepressants or anxiolytics.

That I see everywhere the increase in irascibility, easy tears, insomnia, restlessness and obsession, not to mention all those people who maintain insane conspiracy theories about the virus, true psychotic delusions.

I myself, after more than 30 years without suffering a crisis of anguish, I also feel them prowling like hungry wolves.

Although they no longer scare me like they used to.

I learned to surf them.

To let them pass.

Let's try to exercise calm, friends.

We will get out of this one.

Source: elparis

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