Health specialists say it is important for public discussion to distinguish between clinical disorders and the symptoms of struggles with day-to-day living.
The crises of recent years and the difficulty in obtaining adequate support from social and health services increase the number of calls to the Crisis Helpline. The number of callers under the age of 30 has almost doubled in three years.
In 2022, MIELI Mental Health Finland’s Crisis Helpline received a record number of 400,400 call attempts, which is almost 100,000 more than during the previous year.