Why British women are the saddest in Europe

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/women-mental-health-uk-europe-sadness-b2542377.html

by tylerthe-theatre

27 comments

  1. Probably because they spend too much time on UK subreddits that are awash with negativity 

  2. Sad. That’s what happens when we turn life into a souless economy.

  3. >Thirty-two per cent of the survey’s British participants revealed that they had felt sad on the previous day, compared to 21 per cent three years earlier; just 26 per cent of the EU women surveyed reported the same feelings in the recent study. Thirty-nine per cent of UK women had experienced stress the day before, while the European average was 34 per cent.

    Comparing one country to the average of 27 others doesn’t seem like a fair comparison

  4. Motherfuckers need jesus (joke, for the sensitive Internet people).

  5. So the survey asked 79,000 women in 143 countries I guess that’s 552 people in each country? Is a very small group of people to base any sort of study off, the 11% increase in sadness resorted is just 62 people, which could be accounted for by any number of factors maybe they asked this question on a rainy day this year, Or perhaps Sammy and Jess had just won love island.

  6. “….largest gender health gap…” Then goes on whinging for half the article how bad women’s healthcare is.

    “Delve into the statistics and the scale of this inequality is quite staggering.”

    So I actually delved into the stats from the ONS and they say that:

    Life expectancy at birth in the UK in 2020 to 2022 was **78.6 years for males and 82.6 years for females**; compared with 2017 to 2019, life expectancy has fallen by 38 weeks from 79.3 years for males and by 23 weeks from 83.0 years for females.

    So not only do Men live 4 years less but they have seen larger negative gains… but let’s think about the poor women! Maybe they need state paid period vacations from work??? Maybe we can tax men more to pay for this!

    I’m starting to actually get radicalized by the blatant lies and sexism streaming from the majority of media…

  7. Thanks I needed a good laugh. I like the part that highlights that women live longer than men but still the writer wanted to complain about a gender health gap. The whole article is bonkers.

  8. Probably spend too much time on the internet being told how shit and terrible their country is by pessimistic, cynical weirdos actually just annoyed their own lives haven’t turned out perfect.

  9. So the main takeaway I got from the article is because the UK has worse healthcare for women and prohibitively expensive childcare.

    Strange what austerity does to a country for 14 years.

  10. Great article focusing on women’s health in today’s day and age.

    Now can we have an article that covers tries to explain 75% of all suicides in the UK by men pls?

    That’s feeling like the elephant in the room still.

    Ps it is possible to highlight a multitude of issues to tackle, and not just the one. Then again, should it solely be up to a newspaper to highlight this societal problem?

    Our government should be all over this.

  11. British women have been the saddest people on earth, let alone Britain, for as long as I can remember.

  12. How do you measure happiness? Suicides, alcoholism, prison…working hours, debt…its so hard cause all of these things are out of control and the cost of living is making it even harder.

    It’s a subjective metric but whoever fills in the survey knows how they feel

  13. Probably not too different from the men. Everyone’s unhappy because our government intentionally made our lives worse again and again

  14. Life as a single woman in my mid thirties, living on my own and teaching, was a awful daily setting. From the biological pressure of your body telling you it’s soon going to be too late for having kids to the financial reality that you can’t even afford to buy a studio flat because despite having some savings, your salary is too low for the bank to lend you the money needed. Add to that the daily stress of teaching, lockdown, bad boyfriends, abusive family, social anxiety. Well yeah I had a lot of suicidal thoughts back then. I’m better now, but it was really awful. 

  15. Beneath Europe’s veil,
    Deprivation’s silent wail,
    Hope seeks to prevail.

  16. I wonder how many people who have ever been alive (~118billion) would love to swap lives with me, despite me feeling like life is hard right now? I suspect most of them.

  17. no wonder me and every woman i know is/has been on some form of anti-depressant

  18. > Public Health England found that women can expect to spend a quarter of their lives in ill health, compared to one-fifth for men

    Wait, what? How tf are they defining ill health here? If the average life expectancy for a man is 79 and 83 for a women then your average man would have to be ill for 15.8 years whilst your average woman would have to be ill for 20.8 years.

  19. We need a more caring society. That’s basically it.
    There is no doubt that we should follow Scandinavian models in all things

  20. I thought you brits were happiest when having a good moan.

    God knows you seem to not bother to do much about it though.

  22. For both men and women, happiness can sometimes be hard when there is an underlying lack of stability, particularly from housing. It’s always going to be in the back of many people’s mind if they feel pressure from expensive rent/mortgage, or in particular if there is the lack of prospect to realistically ever own a home.

    Everything else builds on this i think, as it can often be outside someone’s control or ability to change.

  23. The country is collapsing, everything is getting more expensive, the alt-right snarls at women doing anything, etc.

  24. Headline is literally contradicted by the article. We are 22nd out of 31. So, 9 countries are sadder – meaning we are not the saddest.

  25. Feminism is also a factor in woman’s happiness. But don’t worry, you concentrate on your career and being single, instead of marriage and having a family.

  26. Us british men are having a grand ol’ time, of course.

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