{"id":464354,"date":"2022-06-17T10:30:01","date_gmt":"2022-06-17T07:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/who-urges-mental-health-action\/"},"modified":"2022-06-17T10:30:01","modified_gmt":"2022-06-17T07:30:01","slug":"who-urges-mental-health-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/who-urges-mental-health-action\/","title":{"rendered":"#WHO urges mental health action"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a34d534dfae6\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a34d534dfae6\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/who-urges-mental-health-action\/#%E2%80%9CWHO_urges_mental_health_action%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;WHO urges mental health action&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWHO_urges_mental_health_action%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;WHO urges mental health action&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<div class=\"article-gallery lightGallery\">\n<div data-thumb=\"https:\/\/scx1.b-cdn.net\/csz\/news\/tmb\/2017\/1-health.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/scx2.b-cdn.net\/gfx\/news\/hires\/2017\/1-health.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Credit: CC0 Public Domain\">\n<figure class=\"article-img\">\n            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/scx1.b-cdn.net\/csz\/news\/800a\/2017\/1-health.jpg\" alt=\"Health\" title=\"Credit: CC0 Public Domain\" width=\"800\" height=\"480\"\/><figcaption class=\"text-darken text-low-up text-truncate-js text-truncate mt-3\">\n                Credit: CC0 Public Domain<br \/>\n            <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The World Health Organization on Friday called on all nations to invest more in mental health, saying &#8220;the suffering is enormous&#8221; and has been made worse by the COVID pandemic.\n                                                <\/p>\n<p>                                                                                Even before COVID-19 almost a billion people were living with a mental disorder, the UN agency said in its largest review of global mental health in two decades.<\/p>\n<p>Then in the first year of the pandemic, rates of depression and anxiety went up by a quarter, even as scarce resources were deployed to fighting the virus.<\/p>\n<p>Just two percent of national health budgets and less than one percent of all international health aid goes to mental health, the WHO&#8217;s report said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All these numbers are very, very low,&#8221; Mark Van Ommeren of the WHO&#8217;s mental health unit told a <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a> conference.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Interest in mental health right now is at an all time-high&#8221; due to the pandemic, he said. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But the investment in mental health has not gone up. This report gives countries information on how to invest their mental health money better.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He said the report highlighted how &#8220;the suffering is enormous&#8221; across the world.<\/p>\n<p>About one in eight people globally live with a mental disorder, according to the report.<\/p>\n<p>It is worse for those living in conflict zones, where one in five people are estimated to suffer from a mental health condition.<\/p>\n<p>And young people, women and people already suffering mental health issues were harder hit by COVID and the following restrictions, Van Ommeren said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Where there is adversity, there are more mental health problems,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>The WHO&#8217;s &#8220;World Mental Health Report&#8221; also highlighted vast gaps in access to mental healthcare between nations.<\/p>\n<p>While more than 70 percent of people suffering psychosis receive treatment in high-income countries, the number drops to 12 percent in low-income nations, it said.<\/p>\n<p><b>&#8216;Moments away from dying&#8217;<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The report called for an end to the stigma attached to mental health, pointing out that 20 countries still criminalise attempted suicide.<\/p>\n<p>It also said that while one in 20 suicide attempts leads to death, suicide still accounts for more than one out of every 100 deaths worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>Enoch Li in China told WHO researchers that she &#8220;used to look down upon those who wanted to kill themselves&#8221; before severe depression made her suicidal herself.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was moments away from dying,&#8221; she said, before her boyfriend stopped her and she sought help.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The moment I understood that depression and anxiety could hit anyone, and it doesn&#8217;t make us less of a person, was the moment I became open to the fact that I needed others to help me find myself again.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that &#8220;everyone&#8217;s life touches someone with a mental health condition&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Investment into mental health is an investment into a better life and future for all,&#8221; he said in a statement.\n                                                                                                                        <\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<div class=\"article-main__explore my-4 d-print-none\">\n<p>                                                                                        Video: How to know if your teen needs mental health support\n                                                                                    <\/p><\/div>\n<hr class=\"mb-4\"\/>\n<p class=\"article-main__note mt-4\">\n                                                \u00a9 2022 AFP<\/p>\n<p>                                        <!-- print only --><\/p>\n<div class=\"d-none d-print-block\">\n<p>                                                 <strong>Citation<\/strong>:<br \/>\n                                                 &#8216;The suffering is enormous&#8217;: WHO urges mental health action (2022, June 17)<br \/>\n                                                 retrieved 17 June 2022<br \/>\n                                                 from https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2022-06-enormous-urges-mental-health-action.html<\/p>\n<p>                                            This document is subject to copyright. 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