There is a great Focus article out there this morning which talks to a significant issue brewing in Germany.....immigrants and asylum-seekers in Germany, with serious mental trauma (PTSD)....into the thousands....who are on a long-term waiting list to get help.
Why the long wait? Well....there just aren't that many health experts in Germany who handle PTSD type situations. I won't call it a 'new' science, but there hasn't been this big national need for it, like you see in the US.
The only publishable data on this....comes from 2017, and the national numbers say that roughly 21,000 migrants and immigrants into Germany in that year....sought some type of help with their trauma business.
Waiting for help? You could be on a list for seven months before being seen.
Setting the stage for a long-term crisis? Even if you got fairly desperate and finally agreed to seek help.....you'd still have to wait additional months, and that just aggravates the strain on people.
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