There's an article over at the Frankfurter Allgemine newspaper today, which lays out this curious episode of anti-depressant pills. Basically, some smart guys over at OECD....the European Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.....studied the use of the pills on modern society in Germany and Europe itself.
Ever since the economic stumble of 2007/2008.....the anti-depressant pill rate has soared. Spain and Portugal both are using at least twenty-percent more....than they were five years ago.
For Germans? The rate is currently figured around fifty Germans per each 1,000 residents....are doing some type of anti-depressant. In Iceland....which is way ahead of the rest of Europe....it's around 106 out of a thousand residents.
The reasoning given here? Well....the hint is that doctors now are more likely to recognize mental illness, and there's no stigma today....compared to a decade ago. It's hard to say if there is such concrete evidence of "acceptance" going on, or if doctors have simply found the easiest trick to make consumers happy....at least for the time being.
Doped up? Germans tend to talk a good bit about work-stress. My humble opinion is that they tend to take everything at work fairly serious, and don't screw around or have a moment of humor at work. Yearly, they go to the doctor and whine about being stressed out. Eventually, the doctor prescribes some anti-depressant. So starts a trend.
The question would be....by 2018....five years in the future....will Germans have doubled the use of anti-depressants? My humble guess is yes. And that might be a problem in the making.
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