
Mental health, especially among young people, seems to be the World Health Organization's next alarm.
In a recent report, the WHO states that 17% of the population in Europe, including Albania, are affected by mental health problems.
In fact, psychiatrists and psychologists who treat these problems have long raised their voices about the silent epidemic that is mainly affecting adolescents and young people in Albania, but without sparing other ages.
Mental health problems are directly related to symptoms of anxiety, mood disorders, and then to symptoms of depression.
According to published statistics, 1 in 6 people in the region lives with mental health problems, and what is most worrying and further aggravates the situation is that 1 in 3 people with mental health problems are not treated.
Psychiatrists often link an increase in anxiety and depression by almost 25% due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Meanwhile, more than 1 in 10 teenagers or nearly 11% of teenagers exhibit mental health problems and have their behavior on social networks as a cause.
It is no wonder that many countries have taken initiatives to ban them until a certain age.
A quarter of 15-year-old girls report being lonely most of the time, and similarly, one in four people over the age of 60 say they feel lonely.
Given these alarming data, health experts are calling for mental health to be a priority for governments and health structures so that, in collaboration with other institutions, they can influence the reduction of reported figures.