One in six South Africans suffers from anxiety, depression, or substance abuse disorders. That is a figure presented by the South African College of Applied Psychology in 2018 in a pre-Covid existence.
If the abovementioned one-in-six statistic is to be taken into consideration, then it won’t be long before the whole nation is battling with a decline of mental health. This would be the beginning of the end of our South African dream. Given South Africa’s extraordinary high levels of youth unemployment, this spells disaster for the mental health of our youth and presents a looming crisis for our nation. If not treated with the utmost care and haste, we could find ourselves with a mass grave of young men and women who take their own lives because they feel they have nowhere else to go.
Our country lies on the precipice of impending psychological doom, and it lies with us to improve our population’s mental health by creating an environment that enables access to affordable and quality care. Second, access to appropriate levels of care needs to be improved. The trouble is, if we can’t identify the issues, we cannot offer the appropriate solutions. This begins by setting up screening processes that provide actionable insights. It’s not enough to simply identify the problem, our people need a solution before they end up as another statistic.
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