In the first months of 2021, weekly average 218 out of 100,000 young people are prescribed such a drug. In the same period in 2019, when there was no pandemic yet, that was 202 in every 100,000.
“It is a remarkable increase,” a spokeswoman for Nivel told RTL Nieuws.
For other age groups, the corona measures do not seem to have had a major effect on the number of drugs prescribed for depression and anxiety.
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Psychologically unhealthy
The corona measures have major consequences for our daily lives. “Think, for example, of the mandatory social isolation.”
CBS previously reported that a quarter of young people between the ages of 18 and 25 felt psychologically unhealthy in the first half of this year. That is about 10 percentage points more than the average for 2020.
During the first lockdown, last spring, the number of 15- to 24-year-olds who took an antidepressant remained the same as in 2019.
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