More than a third of Europeans suffer from mental problems

More than a third of Europeans suffer from mental problems

 

LONDON (Reuters)A large study reported that the new Europeans are disturbed by mental illness and neurological injury with about 165 million people or 38 per cent of the population per year in some form of imbalance in the brain, such as worries, depression, insomnia, dementia.With only one third of cases receiving treatment or medication necessary cause of mental illness burden economically and socially huge estimated hundreds of billions of euros because they become infected in the case do not allow them to work as well as the collapse of personal relationships.The authors said that "mental disorder has become the biggest health challenge in Europe during the twentieth century and the atheist."At the same time down some large pharmaceutical companies from investing in research on how the brain works and its impact on behavior to place the burden of funding neuroscience research on health institutions, governments and charities.Said Hans-Ulrich Fitschen director of the Institute of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy at the University of Dresden, Germany, and the chief investigator of the study on the European "to be closing the huge gap on the treatment of mental disorders ..."Fitschen and led the study lasted three years and involving 30 European countries are the seven countries and twenty members of the European Union plus Switzerland, Iceland and Norway, which has a combined population of 514 million people.There was no direct comparison of the prevalence of mental illness in other parts of the world because different studies adopt different standards.The research team Fitschen in about 100 disease includes all forms of major imbalances in the brain from anxiety and depression to addiction and schizophrenia, in addition to the main forms of nervous disorders such as epilepsy.Fitschen said to reporters in London that the results show "a huge burden to a large extent" of the mental health disorder and diseases of the brain. The results are published the European College of Psychopharmacology and neurological Monday.And mental illness one of the main causes of death, disability and economic burden around the world and the World Health Organization predicts that depression becomes the second largest major contributor to the global burden of disease in all ages by 2020.Fitschen said that this dismal future arrived in Europe early in the disease because the brain is already the largest single shareholder in the European Union, the burden of ill health.And more than four cases is a debilitating depression and dementia such as Alzheimer's disease and vascular dementia, alcoholism and stroke.The researchers said it is important for health policy makers to recognize the huge burden and innovative ways to identify potential patients as early through screening and treated quickly to make one of the main priorities.

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