Millions of German employees are suffering depression and emotional imbalance because they fail to draw a line between their professional and private lives, a new study shows.
An eight-year-old boy was killed on Wednesday night after his mother’s boyfriend apparently stabbed him to death and then tried to kill himself, German police said on Thursday.
Two German policemen could be charged with manslaughter after shooting dead a mentally ill man who attacked them with a hammer, a state prosecutor said on Wednesday.
When it comes to finding a happy balance between work and home life, Germans seem to find it more difficult than other countries, coming in way below the international average, a recent study revealed.
Police are searching for a psychiatric patient who killed a woman in a church with a samurai sword and has subsequently run away during an excursion from a Baden-WĂĽrttemberg hospital, media reported Wednesday.
The line between work and leisure time is becoming increasingly blurred, with the overwhelming majority of German employees now reachable by mobile phone and email outside of normal work hours, a survey has found.
There has been an alarming spike in psychological illnesses in Germany, but the country does not have enough therapists to handle the mounting problems, the BPtK national psychotherapists board warned on Thursday.
The number of German workers suffering from the psychological problem known as the "burnout syndrome" has increased significantly, according to a new expert report.
Extreme stress and trauma in childhood can change a person’s genes, making them more susceptible to depression and other disorders, a new study published by the Max Planck Institute for Psychology in Munich has revealed.
With the German parliament is set to discuss help for traumatised soldiers on Thursday, German military association DBwV told broadcaster RBB that the Defence Ministry should also consider an anonymous hotline and a trauma centre.
