“Mental health: Is Chile a depressed country?”

I going to tell you a summary of a scientific article call “Mental health: Is Chile a depressed country?”

Chile is one of the most depressed countries, according to Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). That study was realized in this year, and used the “Better Life Index”.

The most preoccupant result was that one in the three Chileans wills suffers a psychiatric upset in their life, upsets like depression, anxiety, alcohol or substance abuse.

The depression is one of the most catastrophic mental illnesses because this illness affects the normal functioning, for example the social area. The ability of enjoy is limited. For that, the peoples with depression that ask for help is a minority, and that’s dangerous. Also, other problem of this illness is that it does the people lost many year of life for reasons of health, and spends much money in medication, doctors, hospital stays.

But, the article said that not everything is bad in Chile, because the last National Mental Health Program revision of 2000 has been beneficial in the majority of population. But the mental illnesses continue to be the challenge of health.

A solution that suggests the article is the early intervention, because the majority of psychological problems begin in adolescence, that’s a critical period. This supposedly will control the situation. But also is necessary include familiar factors, adverse life events and psychological factors, and, the most important, ask for is something particularly hard about living in Chile today. That does can be for the inequality or the large working day.