Cases of depression are rising sharply overall, especially in industrialized countries. In addition to improved diagnostics and decreasing shame, this is mainly due to social conditions, demands and people’s modern lifestyles. Above all, it strikingly affects increasingly younger people. Finding meaning and perspective in life seems to be getting ever more difficult.

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It would be important for policymakers to recognize this problem and provide sufficient resources to enable rapid interventions and shorter waiting times for treatments for depression. Above all, however, investment must be made in prevention. Early detection must begin with children and adolescents, and therefore in schools and families.

Likewise, more focus must be placed in the workplace on maintaining mental health. Dr. Jutta Leth emphasizes that, above all, we must begin a societal discourse about why so many people are so unhappy and overwhelmed, even though things apparently are going so well for us.

Dr. Jutta Leth, psychiatrist and psychotherapist at JUVENIS in Vienna, discusses depression in an article in the daily newspaper Krone.

You can read the article 'Are mental illnesses becoming a trend?' from the daily newspaper Krone online here:

Depression – Article – Dr. Jutta Leth

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