{"id":78456,"date":"2025-05-06T06:37:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-06T06:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/78456\/"},"modified":"2025-05-06T06:37:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T06:37:09","slug":"most-americans-have-financial-anxiety-and-its-taking-a-toll-on-their-bodies-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/78456\/","title":{"rendered":"Most Americans have financial anxiety \u2014 and it’s taking a toll on their bodies: poll"},"content":{"rendered":"

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With rising costs and limited access to professional support \u2014 seven in 10 Americans say their financial anxiety<\/a> is at an all-time high.<\/p>\n

A survey of 2,000 people found that 76% of respondents feel alone in their efforts to calm money-related stress.<\/p>\n

This heightened financial pressure is taking a toll: One in five said their mental health has declined<\/a> over the past year, and 40% have taken a mental health day off from work or school.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The research, conducted by Talker Research on behalf of\u00a0Doctor On Demand by Included Health, found 41% experience chronic physical pain with 70% believing the quality of their mental health is directly linked to their physical health.<\/p>\n

\"YoungAccording to a new survey, 70% of Americans say their financial anxiety is at an allt-time high. fizkes \u2013 stock.adobe.com<\/p>\n

The strain of financial anxiety is compounded by the rising cost of healthcare. A third of respondents (33%) said that the affordability of healthcare has directly impacted their mental health over the past year, with affordability cited as the biggest barrier to seeking professional mental health care by 29% of respondents.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Millennials and Gen Z are disproportionately affected, with 40% of millennials and 37% of Gen Z reporting that healthcare costs have taken a toll on their mental well-being.<\/p>\n

\u201cAmericans aren\u2019t just recognizing the importance of mental health \u2014 they\u2019re actively reshaping their daily habits around it,\u201d said Dana Udall, Ph.D, vice president of behavioral health at Included Health. \u201cWe\u2019re seeing more people realize how deeply connected mental and physical health truly are. Even factors like our financial health really have a significant impact.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s why it\u2019s more important than ever to expand access to high-quality, affordable care that treats the whole person as lasting well-being depends on supporting all aspects of health, together.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Yet while awareness is growing, access to professional support remains limited.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Only 14% of respondents said they are currently in therapy or counseling. Another 25% said they\u2019ve tried therapy and would do it again, and 27% said they\u2019re interested in trying it for the first time.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s holding people back? For nearly one in three, the answer is cost. Others pointed to emotional or logistical challenges, including the difficulty of finding the right provider (10%) and a lack of time (7%).<\/p>\n

Still, Americans are doing what they can to care for their mental health in everyday ways. Seven in 10 said they\u2019re actively working to prioritize their well-being through habits like listening to music (65%), returning to old hobbies (51%), getting enough sleep (48%), exercising (48%) and spending time in-person with loved ones (46%).<\/p>\n

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Seventy-one percent of respondents use weekly physical activity to manage stress, and 61% said they speak openly with loved ones about their mental health.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s encouraging to see people turn to music, hobbies, rest and connection to support their mental health,\u201d said Ami Parekh, M.D., J.D., chief health officer at Included Health. \u201cThese habits reflect a natural understanding that mental and physical health are deeply intertwined. When care supports the whole person in one place, not only do outcomes improve \u2014 but costs go down. It\u2019s a smarter, more sustainable way to care for people, especially in a time of rising financial anxiety.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Talker Research surveyed 2,000 Americans; the survey was commissioned by Doctor On Demand by Included Health and administered and conducted online by Talker Research between March 31 \u2013 April 3, 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With rising costs and limited access to professional support \u2014 seven in 10 Americans say their financial anxiety…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":78457,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4317],"tags":[2665,3781,105,388,218,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-78456","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-anxiety","9":"tag-finances","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-lifestyle","12":"tag-mental-health","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114459511695100754","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78456","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=78456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}