Published: 30 Dec 12 13:29 CET | Print version
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Psychological complaints like depression and nervous exhaustion have become the most common cause for early retirement in Germany, new data has shown.
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And I believe her ,that must be grounds for early retirement ,insanity .
@catjones
:-)
Is this sort of depression ever cured? People quit work and get paid for it and they never get well enough to go back to work? Perhaps paying them not to work is good solution to the problem.
Wouldn't the "burdens on the job market" affect those looking for jobs and not those already in gainful employment? Anyone on Hartz IV and in one of those shitty 1 Euro jobs has more right to feel depressed than someone who can look forward to an early pension.
Also, in most part of Asia (except Japan), the society is so dynamic and with little social support, such luxurious sickness is rare.
Feel free to correct me. Hearing the word depression makes me burn!
In most parts of Asia apart from Japan you still have people living in abject poverty in squalid conditions with a health service so poor that unless you are being given medical care by a western charity you could simply die.
Hypocrisy is a word that lights a fire,and that I find depressing .
Sadly you are correct "hunger knows no depression" a damming indictment as we move into 2013.
Yes I feel depressed, Its an open door to opportunist and they will kick it wide open, but there is also a lot of truth, employees are often given goals or quotas or expectations that are almost impossible to meet. Take this and trouble on the home front and possible problems with school and your children, money keeps getting tighter.and your not sleeping,. ................