The crisis increased antidepressant use

The crisis is not just economic. The mental health of the Spanish also appears to be failing under significant increase in antidepressant use: 10% in the last two years. Moreover, the delivery of these products has grown as the crisis grew.

From late 2009 to February this year, the increase in units was up 6%, which meant a total of 85,671,868 euros, according to a study by consulting firm IMS Health and the Crisis and depress.

These data corroborate some schools of pharmaceuticals, such as Bangkok, which recognizes that the sale of these drugs and anxiety has increased by 16.3% in the region over the past year. In fact, Extremadura is the third region with the highest per capita consumption of these drugs, only behind the Asturias and Galicia, and the sixth in tranquilizers.

Crisis and depress

José Ángel Arbesú, coordinator of the Mental Health of the Spanish Society of Primary Care Physicians (Semergen) explained that "indeed, economic problems and unemployment crisis are triggering a series of problems of stress, anxiety and depression have been linked to an increase in prescriptions of psychotropic drugs. " It acknowledges, however, that because "the patent of many of these drugs have expired and have become generic, the total bill has not increased as much as the number of prescriptionsand the Crisis and depress.."



The fact that the number of people who use the so-called 'happy pill' (Prozac) is increasing throughout the world has led some researchers raised whether the requirements are being made without appropriate evidence. That is, without a clear diagnosis of depression or anxiety disorders, diseases that doctors normally treat this type of medication and the Crisis and depress..