When asked how mentally healthy we are as a nation, psychologist Adriana Pejaković answers that we have mental problems, but also space to solve them. However, he states that the number of those suffering from depressive disorders is increasing.
"In our country, we have more and more depressive disorders. Then we have some psycho-social problems, that is, problems of living," says Pejaković.
These problems are usually worries about money, a large amount of stress that we do not know how to deal with, but also life situations such as divorce.
"However, on the one hand, there are also some countries such as Costa Rica, Puerto Rico, such as Bhutan, which have an equally bad material situation, so they do not have such a high percentage of depression," says Pejaković.
An important role is also played by mentality, as a set of beliefs and patterns of behavior that characterize a nation. Among the habits that therefore bring us more harm than good are the desire to always be strong in everything and not to show emotions, which, Pejaković explains, the male part of the population is particularly prone to.
"We have a sort of ban on happiness. It often happens that we don't accept happiness as an emotion, so we have in our folk sayings - If you are happy, put a stone in your shoe to bruise you to remind yourself that happiness will not last long, If you laugh now, you will cry "He sleeps like a slaughtered man...while, for example, in England, the same saying sleeps like an angel".
The mentality is also to blame for the attitude that going to a specialist is something to be ashamed of or a sign that we are no longer normal. But it seems that we are slowly realizing the importance of taking care of mental health.
In order to preserve our mental health as best as possible, experts advise changing beliefs that harm us, as well as constant work on ourselves.
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