Double standards
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Welcome back—yesterday was World Mental Health Day, but mental-health struggles affect millions worldwide every day. In Mind the Gap’s very first issue back in March, we covered McKinsey’s dive into the mental-health landscape for young people in the US, and the follow-up survey looks at their European counterparts across ten countries.
To put it bluntly: this year’s portrait of Gen Z’s mental health is pretty grim, according to a new McKinsey Health Institute survey. Partner Erica Coe, an MHI co-leader, senior partner Martin Dewhurst, an MHI global leader, and their co-authors found that one in four young people in the US called themselves “emotionally distressed”; in Europe, one in five reported their mental health as “poor” or “very poor.” That’s by far the most of any generation of Europeans, nearly five times more than baby boomers.
Gen Zers also reported the worst social and spiritual health of any generation in Europe—physical health was the only place they didn’t come in last.
It’s possible the higher reports of mental illness stem from Gen Z being more willing to be real about how they’re feeling. And respondents showed compassion to others struggling: the majority in every country said they would support a friend, neighbor, or close colleague in recovery from a mental-health condition.
However, that grace doesn’t extend to themselves: Gen Zers are more likely to rate struggles with mental health as a personal failing or flaw, with 47 percent of Gen Z respondents in Europe endorsing some form of self-stigma or blame.
We may be more willing to talk to our friends—including on social media, the first stop for Gen Zers struggling with mental-health worries—but are wary of consequences for talking to anyone else.
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Gen Zers from European countries may avoid talking about mental health with…
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their family: only 37 percent would, compared with 50 percent for other generations |
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their school counselor: 25 percent of respondents who saw one said it wasn’t useful |
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Mental-health struggles are everyone’s concern, and everyone is helped by alleviating them—reducing unmet mental healthcare needs could add $2.55 trillion to the global economy by 2040.
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WHAT DO YOU GET WHEN YOU CROSS A WORD WITH ANOTHER WORD? |
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— Edited by Sarah Skinner, Gen Z curation editor, New York |
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