New studies from Finland, Denmark and Norway suggest that mental health disorders might spread through social contact. But how strong is the effect — and should we call it an epidemic?
Maja Goertz is a freelance journalist and lives in Berlin.
Born in 2002, trained as a scholarship holder at the ifp journalism school in Munich, while simultaneously studying literature in Heidelberg and at the Humboldt University in Berlin.
New studies from Finland, Denmark and Norway suggest that mental health disorders might spread through social contact. But how strong is the effect — and should we call it an epidemic?