Vadim Gagin, a psychiatrist in the department of psychiatry at the Human Brain Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, told Gazeta that among the new mental problems facing the current generation are anorexia, self-harm and loss of profit syndrome. .Ru.
“If we’re talking about something relatively new, it’s non-suicidal self-harming behavior (self-harming),” the expert said.
Self-harm is deliberate self-harm to deal with difficult experiences. These can include cuts, burns, hair pulling, and other pain-inducing methods. Doctors talk about self-harm and anorexia, which especially affects young girls.
“Of course, all this was 50 years ago, but it didn’t reach today’s rates. We encounter this constantly in our work, mostly with young people, ”said Gagin.
According to him, the problem lies in the fact that the availability of information that can now affect adolescents’ mood has increased significantly. In particular, the same anorexia is romanticized and popularized by a number of communities.
“The missed profit syndrome is also a new problem. On an emotional level, it is anxiety arising from the risk of falling behind others in something or, conversely, from the desire to get benefits that others do not receive. The diversity of available opportunities, expectations and ambitions is of course of great importance. The growth of ambition also led to a constant race for productivity, the spread of workaholism. It really got bigger. “People want to achieve certain goals and if they don’t succeed, of course they face this background with anxiety, low mood and emotional lability,” he added.
Find out more about why more people are suffering from mental disorders today, with what diseases Russians most often turn to psychiatrists, and what skills need to be developed to withstand stress – in report “socialbites.ca”.