Experts from the World Health Organization report that mental health is deteriorating among people all over the world.
According to them, the disaster has reached the scale of a real pandemic. This is the result of the consequences of the spread of coronavirus.
A pandemic of psychological disorders is affecting people of working age all over the world, MIA Rossiya Segodnya quotes the Financial Times newspaper as saying.
The British publication, citing the WHO, names the factors “causing a global mental health crisis.”
These, as the article suggests, range from the cost of living to the widespread use of social media.
WHO experts believe that the long-term deterioration in mental health has been exacerbated by the coronavirus.
We're not back to pre-pandemic levels yet, said Dan Chisholm, a mental health specialist with the organization.
According to the WHO and the International Labour Organization, depression and anxiety cost people around 12 billion working days every year.
The situation has resulted in damage to the global economy amounting to a trillion dollars, experts say.
