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Economic Forum in Karpacz

Drug-resistant depression is still a huge therapeutic challenge

MedExpress Team

Medexpress

Published Sept. 4, 2024 09:01

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Prof. Piotr Galecki, national consultant in psychiatry, spoke about the need to expand access to a treatment program for depression during the Economic Forum in Karpacz on September 3. Depression is currently the leading cause of disability and incapacity worldwide.

Mental illnesses are a significant and growing problem. Marek Kaminski, a traveler, polar conqueror, philosopher, founder of the Marek Kaminski Foundation and the Kaminski Academy dedicated to promoting and implementing programs that build mental resilience, the ability to cope with stress, pressure for results, difficult decisions, excessive responsibilities and professional burnout, stressed that the mental condition of society is declining. - In 2030, according to the WHO, depression will be the number one social disease. This is because prevention and building mental resilience are lacking, he pointed out.

Depression prevention is lacking

Prof. Agata Szulc, head of the Department of Psychiatry at Warsaw Medical University, spoke about the lack of a prevention program for mental disorders. - We have many prevention programs, but none of them deal with psychiatry, she lamented. Meanwhile, patients suffe...

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