ATHENS - More than 8 ˝-years-long, Greece´s economic crisis shows signs of abating, but not the cost of it, especially in the despair that, combined with near-destitution for people suffering pension cuts, wage reductions and slashed benefits, has perpetuated another in mental health care. That was illustrated in a New York Times feature showing the often irreversible, and deadly, effects for those who couldn´t cope and became victims of depression, and, in too many cases, suicide. That was case for a woman the paper identified as Anna, 68, whose husband, a retired bus driver, killed himself in a park two years after repeated pension cuts perpetuated by the ruling Radical Left SYRIZA after...
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