From Social Stigma to High Treatment Costs: The Heavy Burden on Psychiatric Patients

The head of Roozbeh Psychiatric Hospital stressed that mental health does not merely mean the absence of psychiatric illness. He noted that social stigma, misconceptions about these diseases, the sometimes high cost of treatment, and shortages of certain psychiatric medications place an added burden on these patients.

The head of Rouzbeh Psychiatric Hospital stressed that mental health does not simply mean the absence of psychiatric illness, at the same time, he considered the social stigma and false beliefs about these diseases, as well as the sometimes high cost of treatment and the lack of some psychiatric drugs, to be a double burden on the shoulders of these patients.