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Munich (dpa / lby) - The number of children and adolescents in Bavaria who suffer from mental problems and undergo psychotherapy is constantly increasing, according to data from the Barmer health insurance company.
Within eleven years, the number of young patients in the Free State has risen by around 90 percent, as the German Press Agency learned in advance from the current Barmer doctor report.
According to this, around 123,800 Bavarian children and adolescents needed psychotherapeutic help in 2019. "Social stress and increasing performance requirements can be reasons why young people feel more often under pressure, which literally hits them on the soul", explained Barmer country manager Claudia Wöhler.
The corona pandemic is likely to exacerbate the situation.
In the first half of 2020 alone, according to the health insurance fund, the number of Bavarian adolescents under the age of 25 who received psychotherapeutic treatment rose by 6.5 percent over the previous year to almost 50,000.
In the same period of the first half of 2018 and 2019, the increase was only 1.5 percent.
Barmer, one of the largest health insurers in Germany, has extrapolated the data of its insured persons to the population in the Free State for its doctor report.
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