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“A 2025 Robert Koch Institute report found that in Germany the share of adults with statutory health insurance outpatient claims who had at least one documented mental disorder diagnosis (ICD-10 F00–F99) increased from 35.0% in 2012 to 40.9% in 2022.”

The RKI did report an upward trend, but not the one stated here. For 2012–2022, official RKI sources report 33.4% rising to 37.9%, while the 40.9% figure belongs to 2024 in a different RKI indicator series. The claim therefore combines real RKI numbers from different years and datasets, which materially changes the factual takeaway.

“A 2025 Robert Koch Institute (RKI) report stated that a key explanation for the increase in outpatient diagnoses of mental disorders is that people may be increasingly seeking help due to destigmatization.”

The report did say that increasing outpatient mental-disorder diagnoses may partly reflect more people seeking help, including because mental disorders are becoming less stigmatized. However, it presented this as one possible explanation among several and also pointed to longer diagnosis or treatment duration as an important driver. The claim is substantively accurate but slightly overstates the report’s emphasis.