Sheer frustration: what happened with the mental health of Russians According to statistics, the number of patients decreases, psychiatrists believe that grows. Upstairs The number of registered mental disorders in Russia, according to Rosstat, decreased. Reduced in comparison with 1990-mi for years the number of suicides. But is it all good really? Chief psychiatrist of Moscow George Kostiuk leads a much less optimistic data: if in 1992 on 100 thousand population accounted for 370 persons with disabilities by mental disorders, but now they are almost two times more. What is actually happening with the mental health of Russians — understood “news”. A long way to the psychiatrist According to Rosstat, in the period from 2005 to 2016, the number of first-time patients taken under observation with a mental disorder decreased. However, according to George Kostiuk, this means only by reducing the incidence of the disease. The accuracy of these data
