15 million people in Iran suffer from mental illness

Iran Press News: Translation by Banafsheh Zand-Bonazzi

ISNA, the regime-run student news agency reports, 15 million people, equal to 21% of the population in Iran, suffer from some form of mental illness; the ratio of women to men's susceptibility is 2 to 1. Depression is the most common illness among women; in fact more women suffer from depression than they do of physical illnesses. The regime's Ministry of Health also announced that 14% of this group is in fact young Iranians, under the age of 18. Only 10,000 people of the 15 million are actually receiving medication for their condition, the reason being that there is a lack of psychiatrists, psychopharmacologists and psychoanalysts in Iran.