Posted on 11/15/2022 2:37:47 PM PST by NoLibZone
Nearly 70% of Generation Z, people born between 1997 and 2012, say their mental health was adversely impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, with 42% of adult members of the cohort reporting that they have been diagnosed with a mental health condition and many of them say they are worried about the future, a new study from data management firm Harmony Healthcare IT shows.
The study, which is based on a survey of 1,055 Gen Z members from the age of 18 to 24 in September, included 47% men, 45% women, 6% who identify as nonbinary, and 2% trans-identified individuals.
According to the report, some 57% of Gen Z adults struggling with their mental health reported taking medication to alleviate their condition and paying an average of $44 monthly.
The most frequently cited conditions were anxiety and depression which were reported by 90% and 78% of respondents, respectively.
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Other conditions reported include: ADHD, 27%, PTSD, 20%, OCD, 17%, eating disorder 14%, and insomnia 12%. Less than 10% reported more diagnoses of bipolar disorder, addiction and substance abuse, and borderline personality disorder.
While only one in five reported going to therapy for their mental health and spending an average of $149 monthly to do so, 87% of them found it helpful.
“Nearly a third (31%) of Gen Zers said they would rate their overall mental health in 2022 as bad. When asked to describe their mental health over the period of one month, one out of four reported having more bad days than good,” researchers noted. “On average, Gen Z reported about 10 tough mental health days in the span of one month.”
When it comes to discussing their mental health, a majority, 87% of Gen Z, said they feel comfortable talking about mental health, in general, with others, and 63% said they are comfortable discussing their own mental health with others.
They reported feeling more comfortable discussing the topic with their friends, siblings and parents, however. They are least comfortable discussing mental health with their boss, strangers and grandparents.
“More than half (52%) said they feel uncomfortable discussing mental health with their boss. More than one in 10 Gen Zers admitted they have had a conversation with their boss about it, and while 91% of bosses were supportive, about one out of 10 (9%) were not,” the report said.
“With the recent increase of quiet quitting (refusing to do more than what your job description requires), Gen Z are making sure to take care of their mental health on the job,” researchers continued. “More than three in five (62%) have taken a mental health day off school or work. In the first eight months of 2022, Gen Z has taken an average of three mental health days to recuperate.”
According to the report, Gen Z also spends an average of four hours daily on social media, particularly YouTube and many have made a connection to their poor mental health and social media. More than half, 57%, said they had to take a break from social media for their mental health while another 36% reported that they deleted their social media to protect their mental health.
When it comes to concern about the future the majority expressed how insecure they felt especially when it comes to their finances.
“Gen Z is worried about the future. Nearly 90% of Gen Z does not feel like their generation has been set up for success, and 75% feel they have a disadvantage compared to other generations,” the report said.
“Some of the biggest concerns have to do with finances and work. More than three in five (66%) do not feel financially stable, and 50% do not feel ready to join the workforce,” it added. “Overall, 89% of Gen Z are worried about their personal finances, and 70% are concerned about the economy.
In 2020, as COVID-19 dawned on the globe and prescriptions for depression, anxiety and insomnia spiked, Dr. Roger McIntyre, who is currently a professor of psychiatry and pharmacology at the University of Toronto and head of the Mood Disorders Psychopharmacology Unit at the University Health Network in Toronto, warned in an earlier interview with The Christian Post that the mental health pandemic could explode in the U.S. if steps aren’t taken to prevent it.
According to Express Scripts, America’s largest pharmacy benefit management organization, nearly one in five U.S. adults experienced a mental health condition in 2018, and the rate of psychological disorders has risen dramatically among younger people in the past decade. From 2008-2018, the overall prevalence of mental illness increased 8%, from 177 to 191 per 1,000, and potentially disabling mental illness by 24%, from 37 to 46 per 1,000.
Mental health conditions were also recorded as the costliest health conditions in the U.S., with a price tag of more than $200 billion annually, and more than $193 billion in lost earnings per year.
Mental health issues were also noted as the most common cause of hospitalizations for people ages 45 and younger. Within a month of being discharged from the hospital, some 13 percent of mental health discharges are readmitted.
“Not only do mental health conditions affect a person psychologically, they also negatively impact their physical health. People with mental health conditions are at higher risk for a wide range of diseases, including heart disease, diabetes and Alzheimer’s disease,” explains the study. “People who have both a mental health condition and a chronic disease have two to three times higher health care costs than those with only a chronic disease.”
Indoctrination is forced mental disease probably made much worse by too many mRNA vaccines screwing up their brains even more.
All their meds, I doubt they even know they are really alive.😉
Bunch of whining, lowlife, dirtbag punks — grow some guts and get to work and back to life.
One of the great fallacies of this age is that governmental diktat or coercion can make people into someone else’s idea of what they “should be.” Politicians can indeed take your money and opportunities away from you. But they can’t instill motivation or aspiration or drive into anybody.
The overall result is what we’re seeing: a whole lot of listless, unmotivated, lazy people the politicians have taught to feel somehow “entitled.” Entitled to more and more welfare type payments. Entitled to live in their parents’ home until they’re 30 or 40 or forever. Utterly useless to themselves, their friends, and society.
Not good for the future of USA
What percentage of “mental health professionals” have mental health disorders severe enough to affirm the insane, diabolical notion that boys and girls should say they are the opposite sex and be applauded if they lop off their breasts and peeenisses in hopes of everyone feeling better afterwards?
Just get drunk, problem solved.
And 95% percent of them vote RAT party, zero doubt.
And every last one of them has a Medical Marijuana card to use while they wait for their SSDI check.
Holy Crap!!!
Social media is raising our kids! That's updated 1984.
I thank God when my kids were in grade school the computer was still green screen!
Saw one the other day. Shitty behavior that the patients kindled by kissing the kid's ass.
If it went on year after year I could see it causing a kid to be 'on the spectrum'.
I simply choose not to blindly accept 'expert' studies like this that make blanket statements about entire swaths of humanity as though they are all the same little cans of sliced carrots sitting neatly on a supermarket shelf to be inventoried. They cannot possibly create an accurate measurement of such a large group of people from such a ridiculously small sample.
You saying I had no personal effects from the scourge of COVID actually is, however, presumptuous, as is your assumption of my religious beliefs and social habits. You don't know me.
As to how many people that age I know, I am a father blessed with a 'quiver full of arrows', all of whom are that age, along with all of their friends, steadies and future spouses, along with many of the young employees I manage. None of them have any issues from the China virus 'adventure' with the exception that most have developed a severe case of Critical Thinking accompanied by a spreading rash of Government Distrust.
Shall you and I call it a wash then and say that, through our statistical study just now, it appears there is a 50% affected rate versus their stated 70%?
Why are they worried about the future?
They voted for this mess after all.
Like that guy who publicly criticized Musk’s Tweet about poor performance and then got fired?
It’s kind of fun to see the indignation radiated by these snowflakes when cancel culture hits *them* suddenly with no appeal.
No worries about the current in-vogue anxiety and depression fads - we can cure all that turning them into cannon fodder for a new and improved WW3
They are getting hit with reality.
Will they wake up?
Hope so but doubt it.
It wasn’t the ceebug. The coke heads were already 42% stooped. I see them in action. No skills. Won’t learn. Faces in a phone. Stoned on a light bulb.
So the little nimrods vote deamonrat.
That 8% gets larger every year. America is finished.
A report from Morning Consult (whatever the heck that is) says: 86% of young Americans want to become a social media influencer. That pretty much sums it up. SMH
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