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Record numbers of Germans are suffering depression

Mental health experts blame the faltering economy

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SleeplessInMunich
Just read this article on the BBC website: Germany's new 'great depression'

QUOTE (BBC)
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.
jeremy
I would add that "casaes of beer consumption...have risen..."
Kat
What a depressing statistic. I'd cheer myself up with some retail therapy, but I'm broke.
More tea, Vicar?
And Gerrman GPs prescribe Johanneskraut to millions of people. Its the local herbal preference to Prozac.
bucket06
depression is on the rise all around the western world. its not just the germans.

having said that i can understand it here with the return of this miserable weather!
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