Mental health of working-age population appears to be getting worse
https://news.sky.com/story/mental-health-of-working-age-population-appears-to-be-getting-worse-13291815
by JayR_97
Mental health of working-age population appears to be getting worse
https://news.sky.com/story/mental-health-of-working-age-population-appears-to-be-getting-worse-13291815
by JayR_97
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Is it? Or is it just reported and people are more comfortable admitting it?
Having little to no incentive to work hard progress or really be able to have a life that isn’t just surviving will tend to do that to people
Not surprising when the standard of living for an average worker is in so many ways getting worse than it was previously. If we had better chance at prosperity, security and progression, people’s mental health would improve
Stressed out because of the high cost of living, social media making you feel like your life sucks and a state that seems like it will never address the real issues that people face. I cant believe that the article ends with a guy saying that they need to know more about WHY this is happening 😂.
The cynic in me asserts this is why immigration is so popular with large businesses; they’re acclimated to privation, wage suppression, and dire working standards that the native population just don’t possess the resilience to tolerate.
According to statistics there were very little mental health problems during WW2…. oh wait… people just didn’t talk about it and report it…
People are encouraged to talk about and admit mental health struggles and then some act like it’s a crisis when they do.
When people are bombarded by clickbait, ragebait, flamebait, shock content and the like for decades, both in traditional media, and social networks, no wonder that their mental health is going down.
I do think COVID damaged people’s brains and executive function. There were reports from early on of neuronal fusion and other issues. Mix it in with the failures of Brexit and the absolute toilet of American politics and social media blasting at us 24/7 and I’m not surprised.
It’s almost like funnelling the vast majority of people’s wealth into the pockets of the elite has a deleterious effect on society. Surely not.
No shit? Half the western world can’t cope with the prspect and guilt of the environmental crisis and the other half is in total denial. Capitalism might the best answer for peace amongst humans, but at the cost of planet rape. Most people put up with daily grind to provide something for their genetic future – which many have now realised we doom with the status quo.
” why is this generation of workers who have never had real term pay increases, will never own a home because they were to stupid to be born after the 80s, who pay an increasing amount of tax to prop up the pensioners who have more money than they could ever hope to have while the world literally burns around them due to 100 years of ignored climate change so sad? Must be social media’s fault …”
When the end goal doesn’t look exactly prosperous unless you were born into wealth, it’s not a gigantic surprise.
It’s almost like being told your only value in the world is based on what you earn and what you spend makes folks miserable.
I live alone with my dog and am in B2B sales. I didn’t get the dog alone but things changed and here I am. Because of the dog my renting options are limited and I pay £950 per month for rent and a further £500 for what I would call “essential” bills like council tax, electric, car insurance etc. The things I have no choice but to pay. Add an extra £300-£350 for food and other household supplies including bits for the dog and that’s 85% of my take home pay. I have to use most of the remaining money for afternoon dog walks so I can actually go out and do my job. My main group of friends don’t live locally. I don’t have any money for fun nor is there much to do near me anyway. I’m on the go from about 6am to 7pm. I spend the rest of my evenings looking for a film to watch, getting half way through and going to bed.
My mental health is awful and that is also after the whole of December of because of mental health.
When it feels like every institution is working against your interests, it gets a bit stressful, to say the least.
It’s really not that hard to understand why. Rents are astronomical particularly in comparison to the condition of many rentals on the market. No hope of home buying as 50-75% or a monthly wage goes to rent alone therefore making it impossible to save. We have no futures and by the time we reach retirement age and are falling ill and immobile we’ll have an absolute disaster on our hands with an elderly population who wasn’t able to save or buy a home and therefore have no safety net or security.
Everything’s shit and the guy who keeps telling us he’s the answer keeps also saying we’ll have to put up with it being, at least for a while, even shitter.
If that’s not enough to tip the barely coping into giving the fuck up, what is?
Some mental health conditions are congenital, others are environmental, and many overlap. Is it any fucking surprise that people living in a stressful, depressing, situation, might be struggling with stress and depression…
The world’s gone to shit and there’s micro plastic in our brains
The frog in the simmering water appears to be getting hotter.
Who would have thought that working your ass off every day just to barely scrape by would have an impact on your mental health.
The birth rate is 1.6.
Most peoples motivation to work has always been to provide for their families. Most people did far shitter jobs than us because they had mouths to feed, and the intrinsic reward of that provided the motivation to keep doing it.
It’s because of demands of life, we living a in world where people can be horrible to each other and make environments toxic, people talk to each other like if there are piece shit, there’s bullying, there’s the toxic positivity culture? There toxic cultures with communities within workplaces. Demands are so high, you can’t get a full days to catch up as you are chasing your own tail.
Environments make it hard for people to get a break, we live in world where people can be deceiving or cohesive. There is always that employee that ruins it for everyone else.
Then there is the tiny things that are no big deal but are often blown out of proportion and moaned about. People moan and complain 24/7
You only need to see how quickly negative ideas and ways of thinking spread through Reddit to understand how this is happening. If you constantly tell people they have no hope and discourage them from thinking differently from the ways that lead to no hope then yeah people will eventually have no hope.
So inflation ravaged wages, a huge tax burden, crippled public services and an economy in the shitter is affecting mental health.
Nope, never saw it coming.
3.2 million Long Covid patients now from the latest GP patient survey, almost all of them got a mental health diagnosis rather than Long Covid, a completely incurable condition destroying working age people as a consequence of repeated Covid infections. It will keep getting worse the longer we ignore its happening.
Rent needs paying and I have no partner to help cover the bills so I am stuck in an office based, cliquey, awful environment that I can’t get out of, can’t up and go to college to retrain, so I’m just stuck. Stuck and skint. What are you meant to do? Of course our mental health is fucked.
And then people go from being tax payers to a tax ‘burden’ when it becomes too much. I sympathise with them, I had to quit my job back in December from crippling mental health and am now struggling to get back into work both from mental health and just a general shit job market.
Overworked medical professionals with time gated patients offer fast turnaround by tagging people under “mental health” and passing them into a the underfunded and overworked mental health specialists remit. Mental health has become the “back pain” of the 21st Century.
Is this such a shocker? Who wants to bust their balls for 5 or more days a week to scrape by? Society has decided that only the top 1% of the workforce matter. Look at that prick from Brewdog spouting that we shouldn’t need a work/life balance. Easy to say that when you’re the boss. He can tell the people under him to piss off. If you do that to him you’re fired on the spot.
Probably because no one has any money, and exist to work
I am in a job I’ve been in for six years and every year the minimum wage has gone up, my wage has got closer and closer to minimum wage. I’m working harder for less, and I can’t afford things like a new car or a good mortgage. I have thoughts of killing myself every day and there’s no sign that anything in life is getting any better.
“I don’t know what’s going to happen, but I hope we get our kicks before the whole shithouse goes up in flames.” ~ Jim Morrison
I didn’t read the article but I can assure you that nobody was being asked about their mental health 20 years ago, and certainly not for workers. That means we’re trying to draw conclusions based on the say-so of the present generations in work who are likely more motivated to say they’re unhappy than previous generations. Ie my dad’s generation was ‘unhappy’ but nobody ever presented an alternative, so they just went down the pub and had a few pints and felt better
As much as I like government healthcare the NHS is a huge source of stress for me.
It seems like it’s set up for people with huge amounts of time on their hands (retirees, not working) with the amount of hoops you have to jump through for what you thought was a simple procedure that would improve your life quite substancially.
Additionally it seems to exclusively offer sick care, rather than health care. Like unless it’s going to killl you they really don’t seem to be interested.
No shit, we’re killing ourselves for a non liveable wage
Bah! Woke nonsense! When I was stressed from work I just drank heavily and berated my spouse and children, I didn’t have mental health problems.
Crazy that people get depressed when they can’t even afford a mortgage in their home town on a professional wage. Wonder why. Sure is a mystery.
Stagnant wages, massive job instability and little to no room to progress paired with soaring prices and an overall worse standard of living?
Boy I sure do wonder why people are burnt out and upset
I have nothing to work for, that’s the problem. Yeah minimum wage goes up, but so does the cost of literally everything else. And houses are now unattainable for the majority of people until you’re in your 30s; so you often see 30-year olds living with parents still. And on top of that, society is just shit in general. It’s fucked, everything’s fucked. But then they do these stupid studies and wonder “hm, it’s a mystery” and never actually ask the people they’re studying WHY there is a problem.
I was talking to a child psychologist yesterday and she said that most people don’t think there’s anything wrong with them and or they think they can cope. When she started in the 90’s the statistics were about 1 in 22000
Now in 2025 the people with undiagnosed (either or) neuro divergence or depression on some scale is
1 in 34. But as the last government slashed the NHS budgets for mental health and education so it’s only going to get worse as no one has the budget to deal with any of this.
My attitude is that I need money because other people want it from me. I don’t like money and it doesn’t interest me. It feels like having a drug addiction forced on you because the establishment are contaminated by greed.
Thankfully my job is not about making people already rich, richer.
A lot of my friends joke about claiming mental health problems so we don’t have to work as hard
There was that girl who did 400 days sick leave and got £50K payout in the news today
Meanwhile you would have to work your arse off to get a £5-10K bonus
That is seriously the dream for many
Fuck. Work.
Work smarter, not harder
There’s only one thing british people look forward too: their paycheck. A few days of happiness then it’s gone to the tax man for the average Brit. LoL what a sad world.
Could it be the stagnant wages and sky-high living costs? No it’s the workers who are wrong
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