How are you?
Did you sleep well?
Do you sometimes feel like a stranger to yourself?
What scares you?
What do you do to stay mentally healthy?
What makes you happy?
Who do you turn to when you're not feeling well?
How are the people around you?
Do you accept yourself as you are?
What helps you get through the day?
Is being normal healthy?


"A mental or emotional disorder is a pattern of experience and behaviour that causes personal suffering or impaired functioning in everyday life."
(Wikipedia)

"You have to be a little crazy not to go crazy."
(Erika Freeman)

"All extremes of feeling are related to madness."
(Virginia Woolf)

"They've got a place for my body everywhere; [...] but there's nowhere for my inner person."
(Adelheid Duvanel)

"The normal has no good image. It's considered boring."
(Asmus Finzen)

"To determine what is normal, you first have to know what is abnormal."
(Allen Frances)

"What do you mean you don't have a psychiatrist? Are you crazy?"
(Andy Warhol)

"Psychiatry is a relational medicine."
(DGPPN)

"Those who conform to the norms can afford to despair that they exist."
(Carolin Emcke)

"Health is the degree of illness that still allows me to pursue my essential activities."
(Friedrich Nietzsche)

Around 73% of the Swiss population are mostly happy.
(Obsan 2023)

Around 1/3 of the Swiss population reports having mental health issues.
(Obsan 2023)

Almost 10% of the Swiss population seek treatment for mental health problems every year.
(Obsan 2023)

More than 50% of new IV pensions are granted for mental illnesses.
(BSV 2020)

Psychotropic drugs are the most commonly prescribed medication in Switzerland. (Obsan 2022)
Around 1% of the Swiss population required inpatient treatment in a psychiatric clinic in 2018.
(Obsan 2023)

On average, inpatient stays in a psychiatric clinic or department last around one month.
(Obsan 2023)

90% of admissions to the Basel Psychiatric Clinic are voluntary. The figure for Switzerland as a whole is 80%.
(UPK JB 2022)

The vast majority of treatments for mental illnesses are provided on an outpatient basis.
(Obsan 2023)

Around 1,000 people in Switzerland commit suicide every year.
(Obsan 2023)

30% of people with mental health issues say that they do not seek help because they lack time.
(Obsan 2023)