I guess that dealing with the Portuguese system comes with consequences.
I like to think (wishful thinking probably) that it is not so much about the difficulties that Portuguese people face that negatively impact their mental health, but more to do with the fact that the mental health provision within the portuguese health system is very poor and medication (not regularly reviewed too) is usually the first line of treatment.
A mentalidade portuguesa é frequentemente caracterizada por uma tendência para reclamações e lamentações.
Fado
cuz foreigners come to our country and make it impossible for us to have a home
In the last decades, benzodiazepines have been prescribed in Portugal as treatment for depressive and anxiety disorders and also for insomnia for long periods of time. Elderly people are often overly medicated with BDZs for years, even decades (you’re not supposed to take them for more than like… 6 weeks… as it causes habituation).
Nowadays, doctors are more aware of this problem and young doctors are trained to avoid the misuse of BDZs, but the damage is done and it will take a while to fix it.
I believe that also contributes to that graphic.
Also, out public health system has little (almost none lol) psychological personnel, which makes mental health a very big problem.
First off: source?
O motivo esta a ser gritado na minha televisão neste momento: “ PS PS PS PS”.
Mais não digo
The portuguese are hostages of a greedy medical class and Big Pharma that exploit our depressive catholic mindset. The medical class turn us into zombies so that the corrupt olygarchs can enslave us.
errr…propaganda me’dica e’ eficaz…penso eu de que….
Uma vez vi uma mulher na farmacia a comprar caixas de xanax que eu por uns momentos pensava que estava numa padaria.
*Can we get much higher?*
Clearly you never lived in Portugal as a native Portuguese…
They give antidepressants foe everything. I was grieving and needed some time off work, so I asked the doctor to give me a week off to grieve cause I wasn’t ready. She tried to convince me that I also needed anti-depressants. I never took them, it was not what I needed – I was not depressed, I was grieving.
The biggest reason is an old man called Jorge Nuno Pinto da Costa, for years he made all the people from the south of Portugal with depression. But for the last two years he left everyone from the city of Oporto with severe depression.
Because mental healthcare is very poor in Portugal it’s almost impossible to get a psychologist through the national healthcare. So the easy fix for doctors is to prescribe antidepressants. There is little to no follow-up. I have a family member for example that was seen once by a psychiatrist many years ago and that’s it. Her regular GP (médico de família) still prescribe her stuff and adjusts it based on whatever she says. But she has no actual psychological support. Like her many more are in the same situation and it’s an endless cycle due to how addictive these meds are.
I have another case of a close friend that is suicidal and ended up in the hospital several times for attempting suicide. Her parents had to pay out of pocket for her to talk to a therapist on a regular basis because the public healthcare system was not helpful offered only a few sessions and basically just relied on medication. A private therapist is very expensive and I know she stopped seeing her therapist due to money issues…
Because we like being high
So high…
Well, clearly the anti-depressants, for one.
The question is… why is so difficult for Indians to acquire anti-depressants?
We are “high” alright!
E depois de ver a quantidade de votos no PS, acho que vou contribuir para a subida desse valor
Weed mixed with poor nutrition and light alcoholism will get you there.
139 and counting, soon to be number one, we’re unstoppable caralho🔥🔥
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In two words?
António Costa :))))))))))))
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Poverty.
Pedro Passos Coelho
I guess that dealing with the Portuguese system comes with consequences.
I like to think (wishful thinking probably) that it is not so much about the difficulties that Portuguese people face that negatively impact their mental health, but more to do with the fact that the mental health provision within the portuguese health system is very poor and medication (not regularly reviewed too) is usually the first line of treatment.
A mentalidade portuguesa é frequentemente caracterizada por uma tendência para reclamações e lamentações.
Fado
cuz foreigners come to our country and make it impossible for us to have a home
In the last decades, benzodiazepines have been prescribed in Portugal as treatment for depressive and anxiety disorders and also for insomnia for long periods of time. Elderly people are often overly medicated with BDZs for years, even decades (you’re not supposed to take them for more than like… 6 weeks… as it causes habituation).
Nowadays, doctors are more aware of this problem and young doctors are trained to avoid the misuse of BDZs, but the damage is done and it will take a while to fix it.
I believe that also contributes to that graphic.
Also, out public health system has little (almost none lol) psychological personnel, which makes mental health a very big problem.
First off: source?
O motivo esta a ser gritado na minha televisão neste momento: “ PS PS PS PS”.
Mais não digo
The portuguese are hostages of a greedy medical class and Big Pharma that exploit our depressive catholic mindset. The medical class turn us into zombies so that the corrupt olygarchs can enslave us.
errr…propaganda me’dica e’ eficaz…penso eu de que….
Uma vez vi uma mulher na farmacia a comprar caixas de xanax que eu por uns momentos pensava que estava numa padaria.
*Can we get much higher?*
Clearly you never lived in Portugal as a native Portuguese…
They give antidepressants foe everything. I was grieving and needed some time off work, so I asked the doctor to give me a week off to grieve cause I wasn’t ready. She tried to convince me that I also needed anti-depressants. I never took them, it was not what I needed – I was not depressed, I was grieving.
The biggest reason is an old man called Jorge Nuno Pinto da Costa, for years he made all the people from the south of Portugal with depression. But for the last two years he left everyone from the city of Oporto with severe depression.
Because mental healthcare is very poor in Portugal it’s almost impossible to get a psychologist through the national healthcare. So the easy fix for doctors is to prescribe antidepressants. There is little to no follow-up. I have a family member for example that was seen once by a psychiatrist many years ago and that’s it. Her regular GP (médico de família) still prescribe her stuff and adjusts it based on whatever she says. But she has no actual psychological support. Like her many more are in the same situation and it’s an endless cycle due to how addictive these meds are.
I have another case of a close friend that is suicidal and ended up in the hospital several times for attempting suicide. Her parents had to pay out of pocket for her to talk to a therapist on a regular basis because the public healthcare system was not helpful offered only a few sessions and basically just relied on medication. A private therapist is very expensive and I know she stopped seeing her therapist due to money issues…
Because we like being high
So high…
Well, clearly the anti-depressants, for one.
The question is… why is so difficult for Indians to acquire anti-depressants?
We are “high” alright!
E depois de ver a quantidade de votos no PS, acho que vou contribuir para a subida desse valor
Weed mixed with poor nutrition and light alcoholism will get you there.
139 and counting, soon to be number one, we’re unstoppable caralho🔥🔥