Nutrition psychology. “Mental health disorders affect the majority of Finns”. The cases for relational aggressiveness and malnutrition

The administration at the University of Helsingfors claims that a majority of Finns will suffer from mental health issues. The communication is written in Uralic-finnish only. This follows after Finnish Brain foundation predicted that 50% of Finnish women, and 30% of Finnish men, over the age of 45, will suffer from a serious brain disease. Finland also has a high prevalence of women's psychological domestic violence. Conclusion. Finland has a high prevalence of mental health issues within the country, within the EU (depression), in the World (Alzheimers/dementia), twice as high compared to Sweden. Because Sweden as Finland typically shares DNA, the high prevalence is unlikely explained by biology, but socio-culture. 3 pages.

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The administration at the University of Helsingfors claims that a majority of Finns will suffer from mental health issues. The communication is written in Uralic-finnish only, but here's a quote based on Google translate:

“An estimated 77% of women and 70% of men will be diagnosed with a mental health, behavioral, or neurodevelpmental disorder during their lifetime.

The disorders are most often diagnosed for the first time: In women between the ages of 15 and 19, most often as anxiety and mood disorders, and in men as early as the age of 6, often as developmental disorders (e.g. ADHD)”.

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This follows after Finnish Brain foundation predicted that 50% of Finnish women, and 30% of Finnish men, over the age of 45, will suffer from a serious brain disease. They ment Alzheimer's and dementia. Finland has the highest prevalence of Alzheimer/dementia in the world. It's twice as high compared to Sweden (EU/OECD, 2023).

In very few cases are mental health issues explained by nature, and in most of the cases by nurture, e.g. complex childhood trauma.

Domestic violence is typically a female phenomena, especially psychological domestic violence or relational aggressiveness (Hyde, 2005).

Here are a few but significant observations:

• Finnish women's relational aggressiveness (psychological domestic violence) is the big challenge (Helsingfors Police department, April, 2022).
  
  
• 40% of the Finnish school children are victims of psychological domestic violence (Estlander, Bensow, November, 2023).

Relational aggressiveness is typically explained by high degree of neuroticism and/or Borderline personality disorder (Jiang, Dong och Wang, 2022; Ode et al. 2009; Ruffalo, 2024; Weisberg et al. 2011; Zalewski et al. 2014).

See Dr. Shannon Currys testimony for an orientation (Forensic Psychologist Dr. Shannon Curry Testifies (Trial Day 9).

Part of the explanation can be malnutrition; In Finland, nutrition people reiterate that saturated fats and meat are bad for health (Österberg, 2025).

In reality, the brain needs saturated fats to produce myelin (Poitelon et al. 2020). And recent studies have shown that not only is animal source food important for health, it may also put mental health issues into remission (Dobersek et al. 2024; Laurent and Tague, 2025; Newiss, 2025; Österberg, 2019, 2020 a b, 2023).

Conclusion. Finland has a high prevalence of mental health issues within the country, within the EU (depression), in the World (Alzheimers/dementia), twice as high compared to Sweden. Because Sweden as Finland typically shares DNA, the high prevalence is unlikely explained by biology, but socio-culture.

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