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83 million Chinese are suffering from mental disorders
www.chinanews.cn 2006-06-06 16:00:11
Chinanews, June 6 �C 1% of the Chinese population are suffering from
schizophrenia, and the case is even higher with melancholia. The number
of sufferers of mental disorders has reached as high as 83 million, while
there are nearly 16 million who suffers from severe mental problems.
What��s more, over 30 million children and youths have psychic or
behavioral problems.
According to the data of the Ministry of Health, all these mental
diseases cost up to 20% of all the money people spend on medicine, and it
will reach 25% in the 21st century.
The cause and pathogenesis of most mental diseases still remain unknown,
thus early identification is difficult, and no treatment can turn up the
trumps.
Anyway, precautions against mental diseases can still be taken. Professor
Zhang Mingyuan, honorary president of the China Institute of Psychosis,
and vice chief officer of the Shanghai Mental Health Working Group, says
that experiments have already proved that if proper measures are taken as
regards the high risk group when some dangerous factors appear, there is
still possibility to prevent the disease or at least improve the
conditions of the patients.
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