Therapists Busy Fighting Venezuela's Emotional Crisis

CARACAS, (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 29th Sep, 2016 ) - In Venezuela, if the hunger, armed robbers and medicine shortages don't kill you, then the demons of depression and anxiety just might.

Suffering long queues for rations and one of the world's highest murder rates, citizens are losing their tempers -- and their hope, psychologists warn.

Plunged into depression after the death of his mother, a failed relationship and being targeted three times by robbers, Omar Mendoza did what many Venezuelans are doing -- he called a therapist.

"I had to seek help," Mendoza, a 45-year-old lawyer, told AFP, sitting in a black leather chair in his therapist's waiting room. "Everyone is complaining that the situation is getting worse in the street, at home, at work, in the queues. You feel like there is no way out."