Paul Goble
Staunton, July 7 – Following declines over the last decade, the number of Russians now suffering from mental disorders has set a new record, with 460,000 new cases in 2023 bringing the total to more than four million over all, according to Russian government data and Moscow medical experts.
Some of this increase reflects mental health problems that were not diagnosed during the covid pandemic, but much of it, Moscow psychologists and psychiatrists say, is the direct result of stress from the war in Ukraine. And they say that the upsurge in such problems as a result of that conflict has only begun (istories.media/news/2024/0 7/05/mental-issues-in-2023/).
The full impact of the war will be felt in this sector, the medical specialists say, only five to ten years after the conflict is over. Until that date, the number of Russians diagnosed with mental problems will continue to rise and the number choosing to self-medicate with alcohol and anti-depressants will go up.
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