Santiago is the saddest capital city of America
Latina, and one of the unhappiest of the world. Firstly, Santiago tops the list of people
with depression, according to studies from the WHO. There may be some reasons
to the depression of people, like that when a country gets develop in short
time, there are more cases of depression, like in Korea and Chine, besides
Chile. In addition, according to the
National Health Survey, 21, 67% of Chileans had depression sometime in their
life. In the last years in Santiago there are more cases of depression in
children, young people and young adults, increasing the amount of people with
this disease. Finally, suicides have increased in the last 15 years. To conclude, psychiatrist conclude that one
main reason for this unhappiness of people is the develop that the country, and
specially Santiago, is going through, where success is the most important thing,
and that may be the reason why Santiago is one of the saddest capitals in the
world.
Ignacio Castillo
