In an interview with Hoy, Dominican Psychiatry Society representatives Angel Almanzar, Fernando Sanchez Martinez, Carlos de los Angeles and Maria Neri Perez said that 20 of every 100 Dominicans suffer from mental health problems. Nevertheless, they said Dominicans have high resilience levels and a capacity for overcoming adversity, which makes them some of the happiest people in the world, as has been recognized internationally.
Dominican Psychiatry Society president Maria Neri Perez said that safety issues like violence, survival struggles, traffic chaos, lack of respect for laws and impunity, and the fact that more than 500,000 young people are neither studying nor working are all social factors that affect Dominicans? mental health.
http://hoy.com.do/psiquiatras-el-20-...ntal-afectada/
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The Dominican Republic has social factors that make twenty of 100 people have affected their mental health. However, Dominicans have a great capacity to bounce back from adversity, which makes them be among the happiest people in the world.
The issue was discussed yesterday by Dr. Fernando Sanchez Martinez, Carlos de los Angeles, Maria Neri Perez, president of the Dominican Psychiatric Society, and Angel Alm?nzar, director of Mental Health, during a discussion on mental health organized by TODAY.
It addresses what social factors such as insecurity, violence, struggle for survival, having more than 500 thousand young people who neither study nor work, the chaos of traffic, lack of respect for the law and impunity are just some of these components damaging the Dominican.
However, they ensure that the Dominican people has a resilience or rise from adversity impressively and it has been throughout history.
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"Dominicans are Undergoing major psychosocial stressors, including disputes between workers and employers, which threatens the emotional health of citizens," said De los Angeles.
He insisted that these social factors become growth opportunities, the ability of the Dominicans.
Differentiated. Social factors that lead to anxiety and mood disorder are different in each country, says Dr. Perez.
Analyzes that while Dominicans have insecurity, other nations have anxiety about terrorism, risk not having the country.
For his part, Dr. Sanchez Martinez said the mental health of a country depends on the way the family and society as a stratified Dominican develops.
The mental health specialist ensures that the most affected is the majority of the population that does not have housing, food and work.
"Let's get on the stage of a family living in poor housing conditions, no water, girls have to go out and carry water and a large surrounding insecurity. All this has a great impact on the emotional life of the individual, "said Sanchez Martinez.
That generates a high rate of emotional problems, but in the opinion of Dr. Alm?nzar, mental disorders are also present in highly developed societies, such as Japan or the Nordic countries.
Resiliency. Dr. Sanchez Martinez said the Dominican tragedy becomes an event that produces laughter and joy. It is paradoxical.
"The corners and colmadones fill with people in an atmosphere of fun, that people vent to such serious issues as insecurity," insists Martinez Sanchez.
There are a joy and ability to bounce back in the Dominican who makes a happy person, they insist.
Diseases. From the experience of crisis intervention units, the highest incidence of patients arrive with mood disorder.
However, the mood disorder are not only related to hopelessness and poverty, there are also genetic factors that a person will develop even if economic welfare, say the four professional
They insist that the country is among the expected rates of morbidity, ie, is not a shocking figure the percentage of mental health condition.
The adictions. The Dominican Republic has a serious problem of alcoholism and substance abuse, say the doctors Alm?nzar and Sanchez Martinez.
Addictions are a serious public health problem and the principal is alcoholism, says Dr. De los Angeles.
In addition, alcohol is responsible for 90% of traffic accidents. In the case of motorcycle accidents in over 90% of cases are involved alcohol and other substances.
Cocaine use. Professionals say it is very serious allegations that drivers of heavy vehicles use cocaine to stay awake. They call attention to that complaint. Scholars of human behavior analyzed the general and domestic violence, is linked to alcohol.
Psychiatrists say that 80% of crimes involving alcohol abuse, which warrants response of different state actors.
According to Dr. De los Angeles, the human being seeks to take alcohol to leave his normal state and reach a different phase.
Without signal. The lack of coverage by the social security system is the headache of psychiatrists, Neri said Perez.
While Dr. Angel Alm?nzar said the lack of coverage is a serious issue for patients with emotional disorders and other mental disorders.
This includes said Neri Perez, all diseases, alcoholism, additions, schizophrenia and depression.
Only some self-insurance are covered for these diseases, but it is the exception.
There are private initiatives and foundations covered.
The professionals agreed that it is necessary to flow resources for mental health care, in the case of hospitals is free.
Drugs. There is a severe problem of psychoactive substances and combinations are made, today we speak of poly drug-dependence.
Experts say that the use of substances in neighborhoods is scandalous and insist that it is a mental health problem.
Inequality and injustice The biggest problem of Dominican society is experiencing high economic growth rates, there is a fair distribution, it does not translate to the benefit of the population, leading to 10% benefits from 80% of wealth .
Rootlessness. Specialists Sanchez Martinez, Alm?nzar P?rez and De los Angeles, denied that the Dominican is violent, but insist that there are conditions that predispose.
It also generates violence in which 80% of Dominicans do not have access to wealth, which leads to frustration and violence.
Martinez Sanchez says the problem is not to make wealth, the issue is how it is distributed.
He says large population centers came to the big cities, but these were not given the opportunity to insert themselves and develop.
Large cities have been populated in a disorganized, very poor people do not have access to education and its streets they are dead, no social benefit.
Dominicans also have some foreign models and a consumer society that make aspirations do not go in line with the opportunities.
Dominican Psychiatry Society president Maria Neri Perez said that safety issues like violence, survival struggles, traffic chaos, lack of respect for laws and impunity, and the fact that more than 500,000 young people are neither studying nor working are all social factors that affect Dominicans? mental health.
http://hoy.com.do/psiquiatras-el-20-...ntal-afectada/
Google translation of the complete article:
The Dominican Republic has social factors that make twenty of 100 people have affected their mental health. However, Dominicans have a great capacity to bounce back from adversity, which makes them be among the happiest people in the world.
The issue was discussed yesterday by Dr. Fernando Sanchez Martinez, Carlos de los Angeles, Maria Neri Perez, president of the Dominican Psychiatric Society, and Angel Alm?nzar, director of Mental Health, during a discussion on mental health organized by TODAY.
It addresses what social factors such as insecurity, violence, struggle for survival, having more than 500 thousand young people who neither study nor work, the chaos of traffic, lack of respect for the law and impunity are just some of these components damaging the Dominican.
However, they ensure that the Dominican people has a resilience or rise from adversity impressively and it has been throughout history.
*
"Dominicans are Undergoing major psychosocial stressors, including disputes between workers and employers, which threatens the emotional health of citizens," said De los Angeles.
He insisted that these social factors become growth opportunities, the ability of the Dominicans.
Differentiated. Social factors that lead to anxiety and mood disorder are different in each country, says Dr. Perez.
Analyzes that while Dominicans have insecurity, other nations have anxiety about terrorism, risk not having the country.
For his part, Dr. Sanchez Martinez said the mental health of a country depends on the way the family and society as a stratified Dominican develops.
The mental health specialist ensures that the most affected is the majority of the population that does not have housing, food and work.
"Let's get on the stage of a family living in poor housing conditions, no water, girls have to go out and carry water and a large surrounding insecurity. All this has a great impact on the emotional life of the individual, "said Sanchez Martinez.
That generates a high rate of emotional problems, but in the opinion of Dr. Alm?nzar, mental disorders are also present in highly developed societies, such as Japan or the Nordic countries.
Resiliency. Dr. Sanchez Martinez said the Dominican tragedy becomes an event that produces laughter and joy. It is paradoxical.
"The corners and colmadones fill with people in an atmosphere of fun, that people vent to such serious issues as insecurity," insists Martinez Sanchez.
There are a joy and ability to bounce back in the Dominican who makes a happy person, they insist.
Diseases. From the experience of crisis intervention units, the highest incidence of patients arrive with mood disorder.
However, the mood disorder are not only related to hopelessness and poverty, there are also genetic factors that a person will develop even if economic welfare, say the four professional
They insist that the country is among the expected rates of morbidity, ie, is not a shocking figure the percentage of mental health condition.
The adictions. The Dominican Republic has a serious problem of alcoholism and substance abuse, say the doctors Alm?nzar and Sanchez Martinez.
Addictions are a serious public health problem and the principal is alcoholism, says Dr. De los Angeles.
In addition, alcohol is responsible for 90% of traffic accidents. In the case of motorcycle accidents in over 90% of cases are involved alcohol and other substances.
Cocaine use. Professionals say it is very serious allegations that drivers of heavy vehicles use cocaine to stay awake. They call attention to that complaint. Scholars of human behavior analyzed the general and domestic violence, is linked to alcohol.
Psychiatrists say that 80% of crimes involving alcohol abuse, which warrants response of different state actors.
According to Dr. De los Angeles, the human being seeks to take alcohol to leave his normal state and reach a different phase.
Without signal. The lack of coverage by the social security system is the headache of psychiatrists, Neri said Perez.
While Dr. Angel Alm?nzar said the lack of coverage is a serious issue for patients with emotional disorders and other mental disorders.
This includes said Neri Perez, all diseases, alcoholism, additions, schizophrenia and depression.
Only some self-insurance are covered for these diseases, but it is the exception.
There are private initiatives and foundations covered.
The professionals agreed that it is necessary to flow resources for mental health care, in the case of hospitals is free.
Drugs. There is a severe problem of psychoactive substances and combinations are made, today we speak of poly drug-dependence.
Experts say that the use of substances in neighborhoods is scandalous and insist that it is a mental health problem.
Inequality and injustice The biggest problem of Dominican society is experiencing high economic growth rates, there is a fair distribution, it does not translate to the benefit of the population, leading to 10% benefits from 80% of wealth .
Rootlessness. Specialists Sanchez Martinez, Alm?nzar P?rez and De los Angeles, denied that the Dominican is violent, but insist that there are conditions that predispose.
It also generates violence in which 80% of Dominicans do not have access to wealth, which leads to frustration and violence.
Martinez Sanchez says the problem is not to make wealth, the issue is how it is distributed.
He says large population centers came to the big cities, but these were not given the opportunity to insert themselves and develop.
Large cities have been populated in a disorganized, very poor people do not have access to education and its streets they are dead, no social benefit.
Dominicans also have some foreign models and a consumer society that make aspirations do not go in line with the opportunities.