Posted on 12/21/2022 12:08:08 PM PST by Signalman
A new poll reveals that only 31% of respondents describe their mental health as "excellent," the lowest ever by three points.
And 23% reported visiting a mental-health professional in 2022, up from only 13% in 2004.
The results are from a new poll by Gallup, which said the self-assessments of mental health "are the lowest in more than two decades of Gallup polling."
Another 44% of respondents said their mental health is "good," and the combined 75% with "excellent" is the lowest on record and down 10 points from the average since 2001.
"In addition, 17% of U.S. adults describe their mental health as 'only fair' and 7% as 'poor.' The latter figure is the highest in Gallup’s trend," the polling organization said.
Those rating themselves "excellent" averaged about 45% before the COVID-19 pandemic came out of China and killed millions worldwide.
"Gallup polling early in the pandemic found that U.S. adults were concerned about their own mental health and that of their children. By November 2020, eight months after the pandemic began in the U.S., Americans' excellent assessments of their own mental health dropped nine points to 34%, a new low since the measure was first tracked in 2001," Gallup said.
Last year the measurement was unchanged.
"The latest three-point dip in excellent mental health evaluations, from a Nov. 9-Dec. 2 Gallup poll, suggests that although the pandemic has improved, some of its ill effects remain. These include economic concerns precipitated by the highest inflation rate in more than four decades," Gallup said.
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i was crazy before it was cool
so back off
That’s what 60 years of leftists screaming “America Sucks!” nonstop gets you. Also, too much leisure and wealth breeds such problems. And politicians wrecking the country and our finances.
America needs hard times, no leftists and serious people in Washington to make people thankful for what they have (or had).
Filter for party affiliation and check the stats again.
Watching network TV and following the media will do that to you!
This one earns a Captain Obvious award.
single, childless, university-educated white females hardest hit
Television does that to people
I see crazy all around me. I try not to join the crowd, but it depends on the day.
Does the population think that what used to be America is now an Orwellian hell-hole?
America’s mental health is at its lowest point ever, considering that it tolerates an imbecilic and corrupt old man to lead it toward the edge of the abyss.
The mental health of Americans is a nebulous subject beginning with what distinguishes mental illness from the understandable and actually healthy pain due to a reality at the moment.
We’ve read of the numerous government givaways people have availed themselves of to avoid working at a job. That ‘easy road’ weakens people in the long run.
Imagine what it will be like when the boomers and genX are all keeled over and gone and only the moronials and gen zzzzz participation trophy generations are fully in charge
What did the psychiatrist say when the guy ran into his office naked?
Anyone can see your nuts.
Average IQ as well.
Believing lies warps your cortex.
The constant gaslighting about gender, covid, global warming, “threats to democracy”, all based on fabrication, has shaken the foundations of people’s grasp of what is true and real. That plus the growing atmosphere of censorship and coercion of thought, fostered by a unanimity of institutions, all a deliberate campaign by the leftwing forces of decomposition.
It is no wonder that full generations, whom educators have deprived of the basics of critical judgment, should be afflicted with anxiety and depression.
Funny how 24/7/365 propaganda does that to a populace.
Three out of the 4 voices in my head say I am OK.
https://www.medicaldaily.com/toxoplasma-gondii-parasite-cat-feces-linked-schizophrenia-and-other-mental-illness-337030
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