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20% of people have mental health problems.

Sami Hoss
3 min readJan 6, 2021

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What is the characteristic of a person who has mental health?

Mental health is not separate from the general health of the individual and for many years in the definition of health, not only the health of the body is considered.

A person who does not feel constantly unhappy about himself or herself, the community, and those around him or her, and who reacts naturally to the things that happen to him or her and does not feel emotionally problematic, is mentally healthy.

What percentage of the world's population suffers from mental disorders?

According to available statistics, about 20% of the world’s population suffers from a mental disorder or problem. What is important is how to treat these patients and their families and the correct delivery services to these people.

Mental health is better coping with life events.

What causes mental illness and how treatable are mental disorders?

Many factors contribute to the development of mental disorders, but in general, genetic backgrounds, some stress and life problems, physical illnesses, natural and abnormal accidents, and disasters can cause mental illness. But for most mental disorders, there are cost-effective treatments that, if used properly and in a timely manner, can restore a person's mental health.

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What are the most common psychiatric problems in our society?

We are in a relatively acceptable situation in terms of having efficient and expert psychiatric staff in the country. Psychiatric illnesses are not very different from other medical disciplines in terms of etiology and course of treatment, but they are somewhat less important than physical illnesses.

Low tariffs, which are a problem for some medical disciplines, are no exception in psychiatry and can be said to be even worse.

It is the low mental tariff that doctors and self-employed insurance organizations have accepted and use the acceptance of psychiatric services for new mental health problems in other countries.

Also, sometimes wrong referrals, lack of physical facilities, lack of hospital beds are other problems of the psychiatric ward.

What factors are effective in preventing mental disorders?

In order to have a healthy mind, one should try to minimize the effective factors in mental illnesses, and this is related to the discussion of primary prevention of mental illnesses, which, in addition to individuals, all organs, institutions, and organizations of the country to provide conditions. Suitable and ideal for people to live in society have this task.

The most important enemy of mental health is poverty, which includes cultural, material, and educational poverty.

An important issue for people with the disease is to prevent the aggravation of their mental illness, which requires an efficient health care network throughout the country, and we must be able to provide people with chronic mental disorders with maximum medical facilities and rehabilitation to the community and Restore mental health.

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