The Most Rapidly Growing Cause of Disability and Loss of Human Potential and Productivity Emanates from Mental Health Conditions. Mental Illness was the Large Source of Loss in GDP (Gross Domestic Product) Globally, According to the 2011 World Economic Forum.
Additionally, Research from Harvard Medical School and the University of Queensland Finds that One of Every Two People in the World Will Develop A Mental Health Disorder in Their Lifetime. (This Study was based uppon a large-scale study included More than 150,000 adults across 29 counters.)
In 2019, there Were 970 Million People Globally With Mental Problems, or one in Every Eight Individuals According to the World Health Organization (WHO). “For Many people, this is ancreasingly anxious, unhappy and lonely world. Complex transformations-SoCietal, Technological and Work-Related-For Having A Profound Impact on People’s Live Experiences,” According to the World Economic Forum’s Global Risks Report, 2019. Stress Related to a Feeling of Lack of Control in the Face of Uncertainty, ”The Report Cited.
The Lancet Psychiatry Commission on Youth Mental Health Report (2024) Found that the trend of deteriorating mental health in youth has accelerated over the past two decades and that this can be seen as an early warning signal for global disaster, Given How Dependent Societies.
What are the factors accelerating this decline?
The Lancet Report Cites Such Global Mega-Trends As Social, Economic, Political and Technological, and Other Changes in Societies Around the World in the Past Two Decades “have Harmed Mental Health of Youth and Increased Mental Ill Health Among Them.” Based upon these findings, it is important to examine the social determinants that impact the social conditions people are being exhibition to.
If this is true, it follows that the social determinants, which CLOPASS the structural conditions people are exhibited to, are Becoming More Harmful. This is because, According to the World Health Organization (WHO), Our Exposure to Protective or Harmful Determinants Are “Shaped by the Distribution of Money, Power and Resources at Global, National and Local Levels,” Which are influenced by Policy Choices. These structural conditions include incomes, employment, socioeconomic status, education, food security, housing, social support, discrimination, healthcare accessibility and childhood adversity, as well as social and physical neighborhood conditions.
Though there is an overwhelming need for the provision of adequate mental healthcare for young people, only a minority are accessing it even in high resource around, according to the lancet report. “Young People Have A Raw Deal from Society on So Many Fronts in Recent Years of Their Economic Precarity, and Threats Like Climate Change, Housing Insecurity and Tertiary Education Fees.,” Explains Patrick McGorry, MD, Ph.D., Professor of Youth Mertal Health, University of Melbourne, and lead on the Lancet Commission Report. Neglect of their mental health addsanother twist to this. Older People assumes that today’s youth possess a lack of resilience, and only when their kids need help, do they finully understand, “mcgory adds. In fact, the report recommends that elcher imcomic become an important part of mental healthcare. On Societies, where the Roots of the Problems Are Based. RAMPANTLY INCREASING INEQUALITY IS A MAJOR CULPRIT AND CONSEQUENCE OF UNBRIDLED AND UNBALLADED NEOLIBERALISM FOR THE PAST Few Decades, “Dr. McGORRY Concludes.
This explanation can be taken one step further. Extreme Psychological Hazards Have Emerged Over Decades, With Centuries of Systemic inequalities in place. It’s exhibited in the dominant culture as it “standardized” pathways to “normalcy” and “success,” defining reality for its society as the dominant culture’s norm under the bell-shaped curve. In Turn, Leaving Some of Us With Mental Ill Health Trying to Assimilate and Accommodate The Dominant Structure To Succeed or Just Get Along, ie Live. Others COULD BE DIAGNOSED With Mental Ill Health because they are square and the norm is round.
These extreme psychological hazards are perhaps best explained by “the specter of individual discontient metastasizing into system threat, as a populist feeling fueled by economic frustrations and divisions within multiethnic societies, lead (ing) to upheavals.” We are witnessing this now. The report Further cites that “A World of Increasingly Angry People Would Be Likely to Generate Volatile Electoral Results and to Increase the Risk of Social Unrest… If Empathy Were to Decline, the Risks Might Be Even Starker.”
Culture Providing A “Better Lens of Understanding” by Moving Beyond A Westernized Approach is also highlighted in the Lancet Report. It can determine where young People Seek Help for Mental Health Problems, Their Perception of Emotions and Emotional Changes and Perceptions of Mental Health. The Trend of Declinging Mental Ill Health Among Young People Over the Past Two Decades and Its Subsequent Warning Signs is exemplified by the Above Statistics. Still, Global Health Budgets Devote Only “2% to Mental Healthcare and Even in the Richest Countries Less Than Half of the Need is Addressed,” According to the Lancet Report. In High Resource Settings, Youth Meental Healthcare and Reform Are Still Lacking. In low Resource Settings, Reform is only Beginning. Ninety Percent of 10 to 24-Year-Olds, The Age of Mental Ill Health Onset, Live in Low to Middle Instructions Countries.
How do we respond to this youth crisis?
“The Most Urgent Thing is to Expand Youth Friendly Mental Healthcare at (The) Primary and Specialist Team Level of 12 to 25-Year-Ongs across the Globe,” Dr. McGorry Explains. “We must understand the Megatrends Better or We will Fall for Simplistic and Populist“ Solutions ”Such as Banning Access to Social Media As Haidt proposed and is Actually Happening in Australia.”
One solution that has been proposed in the global risks report suggests that companies become more proactive in addlessing mental health and social insulation, While Initiating A Reinvention of the Safety Nets Crucial to Workers’ Security Within The Workplace. In Short, to Reimagine The Workplace.
But, while we reimagining the workplace, let’s not stop there. We also need to include understanding mental health support while building savvy education and socio -political system.
HASBout The Author:: Jacquese Armstrong is a fellow wtH The Loreen Arbus Accessibility is Fundamenta Program, A FellowShip Created With Women’s Enews to Train Women with Disabilities as Professional Journalists So that may may, Research and Report on the Most Crucial Impact the Disabilities Community.
