The COVID-19 is impacting on mental health, and nearly one billion people around the world are affected by mental problems.

The COVID-19 is impacting on mental health, and nearly one billion people around the world are affected by mental problems.

First of all, depression “concealment”, so that its nature with “difficult to cure.”. One of the reasons why depression is called “psychological cancer” is that, like cancer, it is often too late for obvious abnormalities to appear until the late stage, and then to be detected and valued.

Second, the use of drugs for depression is still at risk. Some antidepressants have black box warnings in the instructions, emphasizing that “adolescents may increase the risk of suicide while taking antidepressants.”. At present, depression is the second leading cause of death among people aged 15-29 in the world.

More than 50% of patients with severe mental illness died of myocardial infarction.

At present, the global average of 1 person dies of suicide every 40 seconds; the harmful use of alcohol causes 3 million deaths every year; only a few people have access to high-quality counseling and treatment; in low-income countries, 75% of mental patients have no access to any treatment

As of 2019, there are more than 95 million depressive patients in China.
In 2014, there were only about 23000 psychiatrists in China, with an average of 1.7 per 100000 people. During the same period, there were 11 psychiatrists in Russia and 12 in the United States. However, price is another problem. According to the report on crowd insight of psychological consultation industry in 2018 released by cbndata, the average annual cost of psychological consultation visitors in 2018 is nearly 6000 yuan.

Through the study, Japanese researchers found that the continued downturn in Japan’s economy, leading to a surge in depression. According to the statistics of the Ministry of health, health and labor, the average annual income of Japanese office workers was 4.98 million yen in 1996, but it decreased to 4.05 million yen in 2010, nearly one million yen. Although income fell, prices and taxes soared. In the “lost 20 years”, the Japanese people were overburdened and eventually led to a surge in depression.
Japan’s Xinhua Qiaobao even commented bitterly that in the face of such a severe mental illness, the most important thing the Japanese government needs is not to spend a lot of money to build a “strong self-defense force”, but to make ordinary people feel “more happy”.

As the country with the largest number of depression patients in Europe, British psychiatrists point out that worries about debt and unemployment are the reasons for the increase in depression.

“A person’s appearance may be very quiet, a person’s behavior may be as normal, but only he knows what kind of turmoil and revolution is going through in his heart.”

How to revere life is a proposition worthy of lifelong learning.

Don’t turn psychological diseases （anxiety） into heart disease