From the Irish Examiner: “The number of children who have been prescribed psychiatric medication has increased by nearly 500% over the past decade.
The rise amounts to more than 5,300 medical-card patients.
The trend is out of sync with the same stats for the general population, which has seen only a 12% rise in the same time frame.”
Ireland has a very large Pharmaceutical Industry.
“…A new study by UCD and Jigsaw yesterday shows one in four young people in Ireland suffers from anxiety . .”
I believe Robert Whitaker said, that everyone suffered from Anxiety.
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Successful Peer Support for “Schizophrenia”
https://www.tcd.ie/news_events/articles/the-transformative-power-of-peer-support-in-recovering-from-mental-illness/
400 million Euro per year on Drugs; 10 million Euro per year on Counselling
https://www.thejournal.ie/readme/we-spend-e400-million-each-year-on-drugs-while-only-e10-million-is-spent-on-counselling-4059296-Jun2018/
