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ESPINO GRANADO, Antonio. Economic crisis, politics, unemployment and (mental) health. Rev. Asoc. Esp. Neuropsiq. [online]. 2014, vol.34, n.122, pp.385-404. ISSN 2340-2733.  https://dx.doi.org/10.4321/S0211-57352014000200010.

During the last Congress of AEN (The Spanish Association of Neuropsiquiatry) the paper "Working Life, Stress and (Mental) Health" analyzed the increasing situations of labor stress that were coming to our consultation. At that moment we tried to explain the psychopathological and real clinical impact of these emotional problems. As the financial crisis has advanced in our country, a particularly malignant form of labor stress has taken prominence: joblessness. This phenomenon is against the worker's will and does not enable short-term solutions. Other forms of malignant labor stress are job insecurity and employers' lack of rights. These increasing types of stress - which are more frequent in men - can transcend the regular anxiety-depressive disorders causing severe psychiatric symptoms dangerous to life. The aim of this article is to analyze in depth this problematic. It expound on the connection between the management of the debt crisis, the long-term unemployment and its negative impact on (mental) health. An emphasis is made on the psychiatric pathology generated, the global mortality and suicide, the changes in health services' demand and the system ability and organization to face it, together with the measures that could be taken to mitigate its negative impact on people's (mental) health. The author wonders what are the reasons why a problem of this magnitude has such a small research impact in Spain.

Palabras clave : Financial Crisis; Unemployment; Work Precariousness; Cuts Health Care; Adjustment Disorders; Depression; Suicide.

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