Is there even a reason to NOT be depressed by the current state of the world?
Not because in Romania people are not depressed, but because they don’t recognize depression or because they’re too ashamed to make the right steps to treat it.
Here, in Romania, there is still a lot of stigma around going to a therapist / psychiatrist, so most people avoid it.
In most of the countries if you are not wealthy enough you can’t get any professional help, so Portugal probably should be proud about that many people reaching for medical assistance
Because depression comes with wealthy!
Let’s check the numbers after the long and traumatic pandemic
Can confirm. 0 social life. Suicidal thoughts daily.👍
In Slovakia in order to have diagnosed chronic depression you have to go see a psychiatrist and waiting times are in months…
It’s a good result for Portugal, it means psychiatric healthcare is accessible and sought when necessary.
cultural or medical lack of reporting creates a very high bias here.
Croatia keeping it real ✊✊✊✊✊✊✊✊✊✊❤❤
“self reporting” often gives what already to be unexpected results just because you’re, by definition, dealing with a lot of unknowns.
I’ve got undiagnosed depression, and I’d shoot myself before going to expensive therapy and then buying expensive pharmaceuticals. I know I am not a threat to myself, and I am not an incel, nationalist or religious, so I am no threat to others. So I’d rather go on saying I don’t have depression just so people leave me alone and don’t pester me with advice to go to an expensive medical procedure that our country wants to imagine does not exist, mostly because older Latvians think everything can be cured just by ”manning up” or ”sucking it up”.
Why does Norway get included but not Switzerland or the UK?
Visegrad supremacy once again
UK is probably at the bottom because it takes years to get a first psychiatric appointment
It’s incredibly unreported.
From my experience at least, I know 2 persons who I think were genuinely depressed for years. When they seeked help, they were both diagnosed with some type of anxiety disorder, got some useless pills and continued being miserable for a good while.
People don’t have money for seeking proper treatment and besides that it’s super stigmatized, especially if you’re a man.
Lack of trust to mh specialists.
Not just Romania though. During soviet times made up mental health conditions were used to lock up people uncomfortable for the rulers. It’s been quite traumatising for a lot of people and left a strain on people’s trust for the institution of mh doctors. Also, even now, they’re often the same people who used to weaponise their diagnoses.
How much would you trust them after that?
Higher educated countries are more in line with mental health, lower income countries think of mental health as an after thought.
Ugh damn you Brexit, I was always interested in where the UK was when data like this were presented.
I can see why saudade is Portugal’s national emotion.
In Romania we don’t have money for depression, that’s a rich westerner health problem
Curious how some of the countries with highers depression are the most happy countries.
So Sweden with a 7.4 of hapiness is one of the countries with most depression, but Greece, with low depression is a 5.9 in hapiness, and Bulgaria a 5.4, one of the least happy countries… but with very low depression.
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under-reported and poor psychiatric care
Is there even a reason to NOT be depressed by the current state of the world?
Not because in Romania people are not depressed, but because they don’t recognize depression or because they’re too ashamed to make the right steps to treat it.
Here, in Romania, there is still a lot of stigma around going to a therapist / psychiatrist, so most people avoid it.
In most of the countries if you are not wealthy enough you can’t get any professional help, so Portugal probably should be proud about that many people reaching for medical assistance
Because depression comes with wealthy!
Let’s check the numbers after the long and traumatic pandemic
Can confirm. 0 social life. Suicidal thoughts daily.👍
In Slovakia in order to have diagnosed chronic depression you have to go see a psychiatrist and waiting times are in months…
It’s a good result for Portugal, it means psychiatric healthcare is accessible and sought when necessary.
cultural or medical lack of reporting creates a very high bias here.
Croatia keeping it real ✊✊✊✊✊✊✊✊✊✊❤❤
“self reporting” often gives what already to be unexpected results just because you’re, by definition, dealing with a lot of unknowns.
I’ve got undiagnosed depression, and I’d shoot myself before going to expensive therapy and then buying expensive pharmaceuticals. I know I am not a threat to myself, and I am not an incel, nationalist or religious, so I am no threat to others. So I’d rather go on saying I don’t have depression just so people leave me alone and don’t pester me with advice to go to an expensive medical procedure that our country wants to imagine does not exist, mostly because older Latvians think everything can be cured just by ”manning up” or ”sucking it up”.
Why does Norway get included but not Switzerland or the UK?
Visegrad supremacy once again
UK is probably at the bottom because it takes years to get a first psychiatric appointment
It’s incredibly unreported.
From my experience at least, I know 2 persons who I think were genuinely depressed for years. When they seeked help, they were both diagnosed with some type of anxiety disorder, got some useless pills and continued being miserable for a good while.
People don’t have money for seeking proper treatment and besides that it’s super stigmatized, especially if you’re a man.
Lack of trust to mh specialists.
Not just Romania though. During soviet times made up mental health conditions were used to lock up people uncomfortable for the rulers. It’s been quite traumatising for a lot of people and left a strain on people’s trust for the institution of mh doctors. Also, even now, they’re often the same people who used to weaponise their diagnoses.
How much would you trust them after that?
Higher educated countries are more in line with mental health, lower income countries think of mental health as an after thought.
Ugh damn you Brexit, I was always interested in where the UK was when data like this were presented.
I can see why saudade is Portugal’s national emotion.
In Romania we don’t have money for depression, that’s a rich westerner health problem
Curious how some of the countries with highers depression are the most happy countries.
[https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/tihxt7/happiness_index_in_europe_2022/](https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/tihxt7/happiness_index_in_europe_2022/)
So Sweden with a 7.4 of hapiness is one of the countries with most depression, but Greece, with low depression is a 5.9 in hapiness, and Bulgaria a 5.4, one of the least happy countries… but with very low depression.