The UK is going mad...

[bkk6060]

From my interaction with British here, I would have thought it would be much higher.

[mogandave]

2 hours ago, BritManToo said:

I blame COVID vaccinations!

I blame benefits 

[davb]

1 hour ago, Cameroni said:

 the number of women with mental health conditions is more than double that of men. I told you, they're all crazy!

 

 

 

It's like those SSRIs on women burn away their warmth and humanity.

[Cardano]

What it should say is that the number of working age people learning how to scam the system and claim PIP has risen to 23% from 18% 10 years ago. My waste of space SIL is now claiming PIP for agrophobia although he works as a part-time shop fitter and cannabis dealer, YCMTSU!

[HappyExpat57]

I blame Obama.

[Lacessit]

2 hours ago, BritManToo said:

I blame COVID vaccinations!

I blame social media.

[Yagoda]

1 hour ago, TimBKK said:

I blame Gareth Southgate 

He was never that good.

 

I like Harry Redknapp

[Yagoda]

26 minutes ago, bkk6060 said:

From my interaction with British here, I would have thought it would be much higher.

The Brits I know in SE Asia, for all their piratical heritage, I think are the more normal ones.

[Negita43]

2 hours ago, novacova said:

NHS figures on Thursday found that 23 per cent of people of working age now have a mental disorder, up from 18 per cent a decade ago,

Yes and most of them work in the NHS

[phetphet]

It must be the stress of the ride across the Channel in those flimsy, packed boats.

[VocalNeal]

2 hours ago, save the frogs said:

"mental disorder" is too vague.

it's so abstract it can mean anything.

 

Exactly. So if you can con the system into believing you have one then you probably don't have to do any graft/work and can continue to sponge off the state. 

Similar ,say, to bone spurs?

[Stiddle Mump]

1 hour ago, BritManToo said:

It is for me .........

Me too.

 

is there a better place to be in the world than Isaan?

 

 

 

[Magictoad]

It's the inclusion of AHDA  and all those soft ones the kids get diagnosed with nowadays to avoid work etc such as anxiety,  autism, defiance disorder,  conduct disorder etcetera a whole plethora of syndrome that used to get treated with a leather belt in my day and still is in some countries, needless to say the streets are safer in such places.

[Cameroni]

1 hour ago, davb said:

 

It's like those SSRIs on women burn away their warmth and humanity.

 

Cold and demon-like is their default. The warmth and lovey-dovey is just an act. That person never existed.

[Magictoad]

10 minutes ago, Stiddle Mump said:

Me too.

 

is there a better place to be in the world than Isaan?

 

 

 

You have chosen a horrible location to represent Issan. Where I have been in Issan is nothing like that; The above looks more like a part of the USA.

[Stiddle Mump]

17 minutes ago, Magictoad said:

You have chosen a horrible location to represent Issan. Where I have been in Issan is nothing like that; The above looks more like a part of the USA.

Very astute MT Sir. Sorry. Must do better.

[KannikaP]

2 hours ago, TimBKK said:

I blame Gareth Southgate 

 

As equally nonsensical, right?

Please, SIR Gareth !

[NanLaew]

3 hours ago, BritManToo said:

I blame COVID vaccinations!

 

I blame the quarantines, social isolation and school closures.

[johng]

Just now, NanLaew said:

 

I blame the quarantines, social isolation and school closures.

 "safe and effectives"   have a lot to answer for too.

[newbee2022]

3 hours ago, simon43 said:

From 'The Times' article:

 

"NHS figures on Thursday found that 23 per cent of people of working age now have a mental disorder, up from 18 per cent a decade ago, rising to 26 per cent in 16 to 24 year-olds."

 

https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/welfare-reform-disability-benefit-cut-pip-dwp-86fzqchng

I hope they will not all come here.

But I'm afraid many of them are already here. 🥴

[quake]

47 minutes ago, Stiddle Mump said:

Me too.

 

is there a better place to be in the world than Isaan?

 

Somedays,  a big yes.

 

 

[ericthai]

8 hours ago, Cameroni said:

 

One has to turn to the Guardian to find the truth, that it is in fact women, who are driving up the mental disorder stats in the UK. Social media is no doubt a major contributing factor to this, as it has been proven to have a detrimental effect on mental health. As the chart below shows, the number of women with mental health conditions is more than double that of men. I told you, they're all crazy!

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jun/26/young-people-england-common-mental-health-conditions-nhs-survey

yes the chart shows it's higher with women, but both men and women increased (women 7.9%  men 6.3%) . So it's still an increase in both. 

Also, not sure how reliable the information is as most men typically dont admit to issues and like to avoid doctors / Hospitals.  (Not all men, most) 

[blaze master]

I blame you know who. 

[simon43]

As others have said, I blame the benefit system.  If the government is stupid enough to hand over money to someone who says that they have mental problems, then what can you expect. Someone with real mental problems should be in a mental asylum, not out in the community.  (Harsh but true).  

[baansgr]

PIP payments of upto £850 per month non taxable...that is the lure to have ADHD, autism or some other made up mental disorder. 4.5 million working aged adults claim this...I have been threatened and doxed for making my views on this subject...all the info is out there, ONS and various other websites.

[Will B Good]

With no evidence whatsoever......the biggest culprit in my mind seems to have been the advent of smart phones and social media.

[actonion]

is it any surprise when  we have this prick of a prime minister in charge

[Cameroni]

9 hours ago, ericthai said:

yes the chart shows it's higher with women, but both men and women increased (women 7.9%  men 6.3%) . So it's still an increase in both. 

Also, not sure how reliable the information is as most men typically dont admit to issues and like to avoid doctors / Hospitals.  (Not all men, most) 

 

The rate of mental health disorders is not just "higher" with women, in fact the rate with women is 36.1% in 2024, which is significantly over one-third of all women having documented and registered mental health conditions. 

 

Now, does this represent the totality of the problem?  Obviously not, it merely represents those women who actually went to the trouble of seeking a medical professional to diagnose their condition. There is significant under-reporting with mental health issues also among women. Studies comparing self-reported diagnoses with administrative data (like prescriptions for mental health medications) show significant discrepancies. For example, one study found that 36.5% of people identified as using depression drugs in administrative data did not report having a depression or anxiety diagnosis.  Remember, depression and anxiety are known to be the main mental health disorders that afflict women far more than men.

 

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0165176517302550

 

This means that in addition to the diagnosed 36.6% it is likely that there is a further 36.5% who have a mental health condition but never bothered to get diagnosed. That makes a total of over 70% of women that have mental health conditions , mostly anxiety and depression. 

 

 Now, whilst men, yes, have also increased, they were always at a much lower level of mental health disorders in terms of quantity (though perhaps the quality of the disorder could be more severe if it does happen, extrapolating from the bell curve of academic ability for both genders). Thus, whilst in 2024 men were at 16.3% having mental health conditions, if one adds in the same underreporting figure of 36.5%, that was found in the above survey, that would put men at just over 50%.

 

Whilst 50% of crazies is quite high, and looking at Aseannow one might think it's actually too low, in reality men suffer a lot less from anxiety and depression than women, which was the source of the underreported figure of 36.5% in the link above. But let's just apply it across the board, and say that 50% of men have mental health issues. Whilst that is bad, if you put next to it that 70% of women actually have mental health issues, that's quite a difference.

[Cameroni]

1 hour ago, Will B Good said:

With no evidence whatsoever......the biggest culprit in my mind seems to have been the advent of smart phones and social media.

 

This man gets it.

 

It is no coincidence that the increase in the figure for mental health disorders trackts neatly with the introduction and prevalence of smartphones and the increasing popularity of dating apps like Tinder, Instagram and Facebook and now TikTok.

 

Social media is known to make people crazy. In fact, they are designed to create psychological dependency.

[Jiggo]

To much "Eastenders" etc