YEREVAN, OCTOBER 9, NOYAN TAPAN. The International Day of Psychical Health is marked on October 10. As Noyan Tapan correspondent was informed by Maruke Yeghian, the Chairman of the Association of Children's Psychiatrists and Psychologists, nearly 7-15% of Armenia's population has serious problems connected with psychical health. Nearly 3000 3-21-year-old patients are currently registered in the database of Association's center. However, according to M. Yeghian, according to calculation data, this number is more than ten-fold larger in the country. He said that children have both some types of psychical diseases and feeling of fear, bad mood, various disorders of behaviour. According to M. Yeghian, diseases connected with psychical health are mainly curable: there are various methods of treatment: psychotherapy, treatment by medicines, and others. However, according to him, Armenian society does not seriously treat the issue of keeping psychical health. It should be mentioned that serious psychical disorders are cured in Armenia within the framework of state order, with full provision of medicines.

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