Mental Health Day 2010 theme and details

About 1 billion people around the world are experiencing the effects of psychological, neurological, and mental illnesses! It is estimated that 870,000 people commit suicide globally each year, accounting for 1.4% of the global death burden. Saracino, director of the mental health department of the World Health Organization, said that more than 90% of suicide cases are related to mental illness. It can be said that mental illness has shown a "globalization" trend.

Mental illness is the number one disease in Europe after heart disease. Up to 27% of Europeans have experienced psychological problems at some time in their lives. According to EU statistics, 58,000 people commit suicide due to mental illness in EU countries every year, which is more than the number of people who die in car accidents and murders. Psychological disorders are one of the three major causes of absenteeism, early retirement and claims for work-related incapacity benefits among employees in EU countries. According to conservative statistics, the cost of mental illness to European countries is equivalent to 3% to 4% of their gross domestic product. In fact, Europe, especially Western and Nordic countries, have relatively high living standards and relatively sound social health and welfare systems. An expert on social issues stated the root of the problem: the mental health of a society is related to its material living conditions, its degree of harmony with the society as a whole, and the degree of attention and concern for individuals and human nature both institutionally and in actual life. There is a greater relationship. Sometimes, the improvement of material living conditions provides a "breeding ground" for the emergence of more mental illnesses. Because when the basic conditions for material life are no longer the primary goal of a person's struggle, he will have higher spiritual needs and have more time to pursue spiritual needs. Therefore, even if a society has an extremely high material standard of living but does not do enough in terms of spirituality, it is easy for problems to arise.

In today’s era of globalization, China cannot be immune to itself. People’s various psychological problems emerge in endlessly. A survey shows that the incidence of mental illness in China has surpassed cardiovascular disease and ranks first. There are about 30 million teenagers in China with varying degrees of psychological problems. During this year's Spring Festival travel period, some local railway bureaus organized train police officers to receive psychological training and serve as "psychological stress relievers." Because "car madness" occurs every year during peak passenger flow. Due to excessive mental pressure in some aspects, these people will suddenly jump out of the car, slash people with knives, cry, throw money, etc. Song Yumei, a well-known psychological counselor, told reporters that people will always encounter things that make them unhappy in life, and bad emotions will arise. If the bad emotions increase too quickly and are not released in time, once they exceed a person's limit, When the endurance reaches the limit, psychological problems develop in a malignant direction, and people will suffer from psychological diseases of varying severity. Uncontrolled emotions turn inward, and in severe cases, people may commit suicide; while uncontrolled emotions turn outward, sometimes manifesting as destructive or even anti-social behavior.

From a macro level, some sociologists believe that modern society is an information-based and globalized society. Information explosion brings news of various social imbalances and social injustices to the public quickly and in large quantities. It has caused psychological imbalance in many people. In addition, changes in lifestyles such as residence have increased people's sense of strangeness and reduced their sense of belonging. Coupled with the intensification of social competition, the acceleration of the pace of life, and the impact of original values ????and ways of thinking by foreign cultures, people are experiencing unprecedented impact. In this environment, it is not difficult to understand why psychological problems have become a "global disease".