{"id":154884,"date":"2025-06-03T13:23:12","date_gmt":"2025-06-03T13:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/154884\/"},"modified":"2025-06-03T13:23:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T13:23:12","slug":"big-rise-in-the-number-of-people-unable-to-work-due-to-long-term-depression-or-burnout-especially-among-the-young","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/154884\/","title":{"rendered":"Big rise in the number of people unable to work due to long-term depression or burnout, especially among the young"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"break-words ligatures-off prose-article-body-r print:leading-7\">At the end of 2023, 526,507 people were on long-term incapacity leave. Around 38% cited psychological disorders as the cause of their inability to work. Of these 137,454 people were suffering from depression or burnout.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"break-words ligatures-off prose-article-body-r print:leading-7\">The sharpest rise was among the under 30s. Among them the figures show a 21.6% increase in just one year. The increase affects those in employment, the self-employed and jobseekers to more or less the same degree. While woman account for 60% of all long-term incapacity cases, they account for 69% of such cases that have resulted from depression or burnout.<\/p>\n<p class=\"break-words ligatures-off prose-article-body-r print:leading-7\">While the 55-59 age demographic accounts for the highest number of cases. The sharpest rise was noted among younger people that are of working age.<\/p>\n<p class=\"break-words ligatures-off prose-article-body-r print:leading-7\">Some experts attribute the trend to increased pressure at the workplace, shifting career expectations and a greater willingness to report mental health issues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"break-words ligatures-off prose-article-body-r print:leading-7\">The financial impact of mental health issues is also growing. In 2023 Belgium spent over 2 billion euro on long-term sickness benefits paid to people with these conditions in 2023. This is a rise of 15% on 2022 and 74% on 2018.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At the end of 2023, 526,507 people were on long-term incapacity leave. Around 38% cited psychological disorders as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":154885,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4317],"tags":[105,218,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-154884","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-mental-health","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114619652787746289","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}