Why are antidepressants so popular in Iceland? | MINDSET | EP 2

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  • @aljazeeraenglish
    @aljazeeraenglish  11 місяців тому +5

    Al Jazeera's new and thought-provoking series, Mindset, asks big questions about how we can improve our wellbeing. In Episode 2, Mindset meets Icelanders to understand the impact of antidepressants and those turning to community, self-enrichment, and old traditions in search of relief.
    Watch the first episode here: ua-cam.com/video/x3_qkMJG-iw/v-deo.html

    • @ziahrosemaurrice759
      @ziahrosemaurrice759 11 місяців тому

      Bullying in the Philippines is a sign of Friendship...😅 Or make yourself used to it so it won't anymore hurt you.... Just a suggestion though... ❤

  • @palm3rfishman
    @palm3rfishman 11 місяців тому +10

    The adverse effects of antidepressants can get much worse the longer you take them as I have experienced. Also, the withdrawal symptoms described in the first long interview are very real and most doctors in the United States and probably elsewhere we’re not trained in actual safe, tapering, protocols, or how to recognize withdrawal symptoms correctly. Not everyone experiences, severe withdrawal symptoms, but if you do, you can lose everything your career, your life , your will to live, and it could be a brain injury to your nervous system that lasts for years. Many people stay on the antidepressants just to avoid the withdrawal trauma. That’s not how it should be.

    • @ibvest7123
      @ibvest7123 3 місяці тому

      Thanks for your important message

  • @bryanotieno7106
    @bryanotieno7106 11 місяців тому +18

    Happiest country in the world the meds must be working 😂😂😂

  • @d3r3kyasmar
    @d3r3kyasmar 11 місяців тому +35

    This is because of lack of sunlight. You go to tropical countries, you will see people happy despite of poverty.

    • @Baladev.das.80
      @Baladev.das.80 11 місяців тому +7

      No .. australia new zeland not happy

    • @THESURAFELB
      @THESURAFELB 11 місяців тому +8

      They have sunlight in Iceland. It is due to addiction.

    • @magorzatab363
      @magorzatab363 11 місяців тому +8

      ​@@THESURAFELB, ever heard about polar nights? The shortest day in Iceland lasts just 4 hours. In my region the shortest day lasts 8 hours and it's already sooo depressing, if it wasn't for Christmas and snow it would be much worse. I cannot imagine how people handle it in the North.

    • @THESURAFELB
      @THESURAFELB 11 місяців тому +1

      @@magorzatab363 I know that the short day effect can result in depression. That can be compensated by artificial lighting which is easily attainable yet the absence of sunlight is not the case here. This is a case of social ills that is causing the depression instead.

    • @Popularmango10245
      @Popularmango10245 11 місяців тому +1

      They should take vitamin D3 supplements then

  • @meganswanwellness
    @meganswanwellness 11 місяців тому +7

    I think there is a story across western countries that are over prescribing antidepressants to women for menopause instead of giving them the option of hormone therapy. 👌🏻

  • @burquenaushad7815
    @burquenaushad7815 11 місяців тому +10

    How can this be the happiest country in the world if most of the people here take anti-depressant pills?

    • @vietnamd0820
      @vietnamd0820 10 місяців тому

      The video says that it has the highest uses of anti-depressants in the world… that doesn’t necessarily mean that the majority of Icelanders are taking those pills

  • @FrancileneSouza-r8d
    @FrancileneSouza-r8d 11 місяців тому +14

    The happiest country in the world
    Everyone is on therapy and a lntidepressant 🤷🏽‍♀️
    How does that work?

    • @Baladev.das.80
      @Baladev.das.80 11 місяців тому

      Western minds ... How to understand??? Hahaaa

    • @Starkardur
      @Starkardur 11 місяців тому +2

      Plenty of Icelanders ask the same question - why is Iceland always so happy when everyone is so depressed

    • @TheDude-w5l
      @TheDude-w5l Місяць тому

      @@Starkardur they lie. Easy.

  • @whawha9016
    @whawha9016 11 місяців тому +3

    Antidepressants are very bad for the brain's chemistry in the long run and can even cause acute suic. ideation!
    I would much rather recommend on taking Vitamin D3 + K2 supplements, fish oil and a balanced diet with lots of healthy proteins (chicken and fish in particular).

  • @dankopavicevic9271
    @dankopavicevic9271 11 місяців тому +8

    Anti depressants are super good. Small side effect, suicidal and homicidal thoughts. Most shooters in US were on them

    • @w1113zuch
      @w1113zuch 11 місяців тому +1

      это да в талкнафйорде я думал у мя крыша на хуй улетит от скуки-депресухи - пришлось съябываться 🤷🏻😂

    • @johnnywadd7960
      @johnnywadd7960 11 місяців тому

      Bwahaahaa

    • @ATMUSA2000
      @ATMUSA2000 Місяць тому

      Yeah, but it doesn't have that effect over there. They have one of the lowest murder in crime rates in the entire world. Making that comparison with all the side effects, the US says comes with taking the drugs. It's clear to me a lot of these problems here or because of economic stress points. What's your reality? It usually makes a lot of people angry and bitter and disingenuous and fake. And then we go into a cesspool of this environment, on top of financial troubles are financial anxiety and mental stress makes people do different things. I think the real problem here is that unlike there. Because most of the financial stress problems are not there and they live in a very peaceful country. The antidepressants actually work, so yes, when they do measure their happiness on an index, or at least try the best that a human being can try to measure other people's happiness. They are happy. Simply, because at least they live in a supportive, happy environment, the antidepressants actually work opposed to here with the environment would never allow the drugs to be able to really work because of all the stressors that are real in our lives, that drugs can't make go away in our head. I happen to think anybody looking in iceland and trying to case, judging on them needs to take a step back.

  • @yanidoesit
    @yanidoesit 11 місяців тому +16

    Stop guilting people about SSRIs! Humans were not genetically made for today's world.

    • @TheDude-w5l
      @TheDude-w5l Місяць тому

      Neither were they for the SSRI's! You don't get it, it is not about shaming people, it is about not imposing this as standard practice on everybody just because a chosen few function with and not treating them as a cure when they are not.

  • @HungaryEye
    @HungaryEye 11 місяців тому +2

    Use vitamins, supplements, CBD.
    Think outside the box.👍
    Learn meditation.

    • @constantin4128
      @constantin4128 3 дні тому

      vitamins arent an efficacious substance if you dont have a deficiency

  • @bryanotieno7106
    @bryanotieno7106 11 місяців тому +1

    African countries should be featured too

    • @aljazeeraenglish
      @aljazeeraenglish  11 місяців тому +3

      @bryanotieno7106 Thank you for your feedback. We have just released an episode on spiritual healers in South Africa, and how they're helping to address the country's mental health crisis. You can watch it here: ua-cam.com/video/OwHQ6w_a2zg/v-deo.htmlsi=DXkAoFhlZWWbk8OE

  • @abaskhan-xn8xv
    @abaskhan-xn8xv 2 місяці тому

    Happiest country in the world live on antidepressants 😂😂😂

  • @shahidraza314
    @shahidraza314 11 місяців тому +3

    This is just advertisement for the pill

  • @hossainmd.abuhanif7761
    @hossainmd.abuhanif7761 11 місяців тому +1

    The story of prophet Yousuf heal the depression 100% if you understand properly.
    (In Sha Allah)

  • @brutnature5199
    @brutnature5199 11 місяців тому +1

    krishna consciousness is way to happiness. hari bol

  • @jacobjohn4180
    @jacobjohn4180 10 місяців тому

    I quit canada because of its depressing winters

  • @soleaguirre100
    @soleaguirre100 10 місяців тому

    Chile 🇨🇱 mental health is just for reach people 😫

  • @PeverellTheThird
    @PeverellTheThird 11 місяців тому +1

    Iceland needs to learn from Argentina.

    • @vietnamd0820
      @vietnamd0820 10 місяців тому

      What can Iceland learn from Argentina?

    • @vietnamd0820
      @vietnamd0820 10 місяців тому

      Sorry I just got to the end of the video and the video itself gives the answer

  • @DS91284
    @DS91284 11 місяців тому +5

    TLDR: this is easy peasy.
    Lack of sunlight due to its extreme placement near the Arctic circle. Lack of vitamin D can affect your mood as well as cause calcium deficiency. (Not going to cover the full pharmacology and pathophysiology behind it. Do I look like your lecturer?!?)
    Also Iceland has one of the lowest population density on Earth. With huge land mass.
    It can be very isolating outside of the capital and main city.
    I imagine there are predatory dumbshits, like all other places that takes advantage of isolation, every now and then.
    Oh and some of the food choices/selection available also contributes to the condition.
    Also bit controversial but I can't help correlate Nordic cultural elements with higher likelihood of depression.
    Oh and minor speculation but some antidepressants do have multiple uses outside of its main indication. I'd imagine alternate use patients also contribute to the data.

    • @w1113zuch
      @w1113zuch 11 місяців тому

      там разве что по рейкьявику ходить - на людей смотреть 😂 во всех других местах - ai-цпп 😂

  • @ikelove6784
    @ikelove6784 11 місяців тому +1

    Turns out they were all just really bored

  • @Saideas_ART
    @Saideas_ART 11 місяців тому +3

    Wait I thought cold.therapy helps with anxiety and depression?

  • @ibvest7123
    @ibvest7123 3 місяці тому

    Iceland is a small country. You have to be strong because he has a different opinion. The pharmaceutical industry and the doctors are not questioned. Pills are the easy way out. The doctors are incompetent and have far too much power.

  • @ahmetemirakbulut
    @ahmetemirakbulut 11 місяців тому +5

    These people should meet with real Islam. This is the best thing they are going to have. The real peace is in Islam. No doubt about it. :)

  • @w1113zuch
    @w1113zuch 11 місяців тому

    в исландии пр делать кайфово за три месяца а всё остальное - 🙄

  • @AshGuz-l9e
    @AshGuz-l9e 11 місяців тому +1

    Its possibly genetics a chemical imbalance

  • @CrawlEvans10
    @CrawlEvans10 11 місяців тому

    You been to South Africa? A minefield...

    • @aljazeeraenglish
      @aljazeeraenglish  11 місяців тому

      @crawlevans10 Thank you for your comment - we have just released an episode on spiritual healers in South Africa, and how they're helping to address the country's mental health crisis. You can watch it here: ua-cam.com/video/OwHQ6w_a2zg/v-deo.htmlsi=DXkAoFhlZWWbk8OE

  • @sarojchaudhary3803
    @sarojchaudhary3803 11 місяців тому +7

    Al Jazeera when you are going to make documentary on hindu genocide in Bangladesh 1971 where 3 million hindu were killed by muslim extremists

  • @sarojchaudhary3803
    @sarojchaudhary3803 11 місяців тому +6

    Al Jazeera when you are going to make documentary on hindu genocide in Bangladesh 1971 where 3 million hindu were killed by muslim extremists

    • @Baladev.das.80
      @Baladev.das.80 11 місяців тому +1

      They do only when it fits them

    • @bolasblancas420
      @bolasblancas420 11 місяців тому +1

      If it’s SO necessary, make it yourself.