Does happiness in the second-happiest country in the world come with a twist?
Possibly, according to a new study showing that the country—whose population has ranked among the happiest in the world for a decade—has a surprisingly high incidence of mental health disorders.
A Study Like No Other
“This has never been investigated before [in Denmark],” Dr. Lars Vedel Kessing, professor of psychiatry at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, and coauthor of the study, told The Epoch Times.
The study was recently published in JAMA Psychiatry, a peer-reviewed medical journal by the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). Examining a random sample of 1.5 million Danish residents from 1995 to 2018, the study estimates that, at some point in their lives, a staggering 82.6 percent of the population was treated for a mental health disorder within hospital settings or by general practitioners or private psychiatrists. This percentage is significantly higher than previously reported, highlighting the greater prevalence and impact of mental health disorders on society….
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