The Croatian portal Jutarnji obzor reports that the data shows that the Croatian public is shocked. Over 20,000 children, minors, are being treated in specialized children’s clinics for psychological problems. A two-year-old child under a psychiatric examination.
A ten-year-old girl under a third man for anorexia. Bullying cases of suicide by students from a primary school. Fifteen hospitalizations due to bullying of suicide cases in the first five months of this year in the largest Croatian institution for children and young people with mental disabilities.
And the numbers show how alarming the situation is. In the Psychiatric Hospital for Children and Young People in Zagreb, so-called Kukuljeviceva, the number of examinations has increased from 11,632 in 2021 to 20,542 in 2025, or 76.6 percent more. The number of hospitalizations has increased by 4.
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