Patients with mental illness suffer from stigma

Psychiatrist Mihai Bran, psychotherapist and founder of Atlashelp.ro, tells us, among other things, what challenges people with mental illness face in our country. At the moment, there is no study that shows the prevalence of mental disorders specifically within the Romanian population. Data from the World Health Organization (WHO) indicate that, globally, 1 in 4 people experiences a mental or neurological illness at some point in their life.