What the latest Mental State of the World Report says about our declining state of mind
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- The Mental State of the World Report has been published, and the US is near the bottom.
- The ‘Core Anglosphere’ region as a whole scored low, with the UK joint-bottom.
- More individualistic societies tended to score poorly, with collectivist societies ranking higher.
- Globally, the mental health of young adults is declining.
The Mental Health Million Project has published its annual Mental State of the World report, and while there’s been a smaller decline in mental wellbeing relative to 2020, the US is notably far down on the list.
This annual publication aims to chart the evolving mental wellbeing of the global ‘Internet-enabled population’. The Mental Health Million Project base the results in the latest report on 223,087 responses across 34 countries, and found that the mental health of young people worldwide is declining and that mental well-being overall is lowest in English-speaking countries.
In the US, the average Mental Health Quotient (MHQ) h...
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