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Thread ID: 17838 | Posts: 5 | Started: 2005-04-18
2005-04-18 14:17 | User Profile
Germany's new 'great depression'
Record numbers of Germans are suffering from depression and other mental illnesses, a new report says.
According to the research, by a German health insurance firm, cases of depression among Berliners have risen by 70% since 1997.
Up to 70% of Germans also say they are prepared to seek professional help for psychological problems.
Mental health experts blamed the rise on Germany's faltering economy, which has seen unemployment rise to over 5m.
German insurance firm DAK surveyed 2.6m employed Germans in an effort to discover the impact depression is having on modern working patterns.
How will someone ever get better when they know their boss is just waiting to fire them? Burghard Klopp Charité Hospital, Berlin
Among the respondents were 90,000 people working in Berlin, where treatment is widely available. In contrast, fewer people reported feeling low in Germany's eastern states, where jobs and security are increasingly scarce, but mental health treatment is rarer and some taboos still exist.
Vicious circle
Workers in Germany's capital, regarded as one of Europe's most vibrant modern cities, emerged as an unhappy bunch more likely to miss work through depression than for any other reason.
Nationally, mental health problems were the fourth most common cause of absence from work, behind back pain, colds and flu and personal injury.
"In times of economic insecurity, young people in particular tend to develop psychological problems in response to professional and private obstacles," said DAK's Chief Executive Herbert Rebscher.
The report also blames modern working culture for the rise, especially among young people, although increasing numbers of elderly Germans also say they suffer from some form of psychological illness.
Psychological problems in men between 25 and 29 and women between 20 and 24 have doubled, the DAK reports says.
Nevertheless, most respondents said they would rather be depressed with a job than unemployed and happy.
"How will someone ever get better," Burghard Klopp, a depression expert at Berlin's Charité hospital, told German broadcaster Deutsche Welle, "when they know their boss is just waiting to fire them?"
Story from BBC NEWS: [url]http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/europe/4456087.stm[/url]
Published: 2005/04/18 11:19:28 GMT
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2005-04-18 15:29 | User Profile
They just need to go back to what the Germans do well. Livinig on their knees isn't good for morale.
2005-04-18 16:29 | User Profile
I find it interesting that in the 1930's Germany rose to power after going after the Jews on account of what they were doing to the German economy.
Now once again germany is in trouble and the first thing that they did was to denied the Jews the absolute right to the name of "holocaust" by saying that the attack on Dresden by the allies forces was also a holocaust.
I hope that the American people wake up and learn that the Jews are the reason of our own problems.
2005-04-18 17:55 | User Profile
This is normal. Two lost World Wars, and a liberal government installed -- all happening in the same century.
What else could anyone expect?
2005-05-02 03:43 | User Profile
It is abnormal and will be rectified. And we are not all weak women as seems to be indicated by others.
I crawl to no one and never will.
The weakness that is Shröder will be removed. And confined to the same tomb as Stalin. In the depths of Hell's furnace to burn for all eternity.
Mentzer