5/04/2008

Mental health

"state of the emotional and psychological well-being in which an individual can use your capacities cognitivas and emotional, to work in society, and to solve the ordinary demands of the daily" life.
In general, most of experts suits that the mental health and the mental illnesses are not contrary. In another words, the absence of a mental grateful dysfunction, is not necessarily an indicator of having mental health.

Some data:
Day by day surveys and studios are formulated on the population's sufferings and as well as you have been increased with the time. Next we rescue some that we found important of highlighting:
*One of each four people suffers a mental illness throughout your life. In the great majority of cases, you will overcome it and in other, although the illness lasts, the patient, with the help of relatives, friendships and professionals, will be able to confront your status. It can also be a long and painful process, not only for the graveness of your pathology, but for the negative image that the society possesses of people with mental illness. Great part of the suffering that these people suffer has your origin in the rejection, the marginación and the social scorn that have to support, and not in the illness in itself.

*More than 20 million Europeans they suffer depression. In Spain, according to the Book Blanco of the depression, the number of having affected could be of six millions, and the half would be without diagnosing. Your treatment supposes an annual cost in Europe of 120.000 million euros, while in Spain the 23.000 million euros are reached. All these data are picked up in the report of the economic repercussion of the affective dysfunctions on the public health costs that he/she have shown up in Madrid Patrick Sobocki, professor of Economy of the Health of the School of Economy of Stockholm (Sweden).

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