The level of mental pain in the Israeli public continues to rise for the second year in a row, according to a report by the Aran association, which deals with mental first aid, for the year 2022. Nearly a third of the inquiries (93,575) dealt with mental pain, depression and acute distress - an increase of 10% 2021.
The president of the country, Yitzhak Herzog, and his wife Michal received the report yesterday (Sunday) at the presidential residence.
The report states that during 2022 ARAN volunteers provided assistance and help to 300,883 inquiries. Women make up 62.5% of all inquiries. 78% of all inquiries were to the telephone center and 22% to the internet center.
About 28% of the inquiries this year dealt with severe loneliness as the main reason for the inquiry.
ARAN volunteers lent a listening ear and helped alleviate loneliness in 84,247 inquiries.
As a secondary reason, loneliness is present in every conversation.
Employment and economy - 7,221 inquiries this year dealt with economic and employment distress.
Presentation of the ARN report at the President's Residence, photo: Haim Tzach / to p
Out of the total number of referrals with suicidal content, on average one out of ten suicidal calls develops into a risk call during which an emergency procedure is activated and the applicant's life is saved.
About 20% of teenagers report suicidal thoughts.
With reference to children, teenagers and young people, the report shows that during 2022 assistance was granted to 49,996 requests from children, teenagers and young people up to the age of 24. Over 40% of the requests to ARAN's online service are from among the younger generation.
After presenting the main points of the report, the wife of the President of the State said: "You are doing a huge mitzvah by providing a listening ear that is so important in the most significant moments of people's lives, whether it is saving an actual life or an unconditional listening ear. I deal a lot with health issues The soul. I believe that the very act of talking and bringing the issue up for discussion allows people not to be afraid and to ask for assistance. I would like to thank the volunteers and employees of the ARAN association, your work is important and sometimes saves lives."
David Koren, CEO of ARAN, said that "violence seems to be everywhere. It is throughout the network and hurts us all. It is on the front lines of the fighting, it is between us and ourselves on the roads, in our homes, in the schools and in the hospitals. This violence creates damage to the fabric and the social and mental resilience Ours. There is no doubt that it stems from objective tensions and hardships, but to a large extent it also creates them, as reflected in the data of referrals to the ARAN association in the past year.
"NAN, which operates the national emergency line for the soul around the clock, needs recognition and government budgeting accordingly. We are prepared to reinforce the lines in any civil and military national emergency, to provide a response to the entire public facing anxiety, difficulty and distress - momentary or existential."
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