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| 'Everyday problems of being young' are now being branded 'mental health issues', critics claim: 20-somethings are getting signed off with 'relationship breakdowns' - meaning Gen Z are now more likely to be 'too ill to work' than adults in their 40s |
| 2024-02-26 |
| [Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Eighth of Brits in their 20s unable to work due to mental health, report suggests. Everyday problems of 'being young' are now being branded mental health issues, experts said today. It comes after a report revealed 20-somethings are now more likely to be off work sick than adults in their 40s amid soaring rates of depression, anxiety and bipolar disorder. Authors say the 'worrying' trend is harming the economy, with the equivalent of 5 per cent of young adults now signed off ill. But one critic argued society is to blame for creating the 'mental health crisis', with doctors handing out diagnoses like 'candy'. Professor Frank Furedi, a sociologist at the University of Kent, said: 'What used to be known as existential problems of being young – relationship breakdowns, failing, not being part of something – the normal difficulties of making your own way in life have been compartmentalised into mental health issues. |
| Posted by:Skidmark |
| #1 No one is responsible for their own choices and actions. It's all a mental disorder. Life isn't tough, it's just so unfair. O.o They're not going to make it. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2024-02-26 18:50 |