Weltweit haben sich psychische Störungen seit 1990 verdoppelt. Psychische Störungen sind heute weltweit die häufigste Ursache für Behinderungen und überholen Krebs und Herz-Kreislauf-Erkrankungen. Die Belastung durch psychische Störungen war bei Jugendlichen im Alter von 15 bis 19 Jahren am höchsten, wobei Frauen häufiger betroffen waren als Männer

Mental disorders are now the leading cause of disability globally, overtaking cancer and cardiovascular disease, new research has found.

The study, conducted by The University of Queensland, University of Washington and Queensland Centre for Mental Health Research (QCMHR), found nearly 1.2 billion people worldwide were living with a mental disorder in 2023, nearly double the number in 1990.

Associate Professor Damian Santomauro, from UQ’s School of Public Health and QCMHR, said researchers examined the health burden of 12 mental disorders – including anxiety disorders, major depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, autism spectrum disorders, ADHD, and eating disorders – and assessed global trends between 1990 to 2023. 

Dr Santomauro said researchers used the Disability-Adjusted Life Year (DALY) metric to analyse mental disorder burden, where one DALY equals one healthy year of life lost.

“Mental disorders have been a leading cause of DALYs globally for decades, but these findings show we are entering an even more concerning phase of worsening mental disorder burden,’’ he said.

“When compared with other disease groups, mental disorders were the fifth leading cause of DALYs in 2023, up from 12th in 1990, led mostly by increases in anxiety disorders and major depression.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(26)00519-2/abstract

Let’s definitely continue to live in this stupid fashion with these daft systems. then.

We’ve been evidently going in the wrong direction for several decades now. We should backtrack a bit

One part the science has gotten better , One part our air,food and drink is poisoned with pollution.

Living in the world as it currently stands and NOT having a mental disorder should in itself be a mental disorder.

That was a shockingly sloppy article about some sloppy research. 

Of course the diagnosis rates for women are higher. Every time we go to the doctor with legitimate issues we’re told it’s anxiety.

Very worrisome. I wonder how AI and parasocial bonds with it will influence the mental health crisis. I would be surprised if it turns out to be helpful.

I seriously think work stress and financial stress are the leading cause . Productivity is through the roof , yet the greedy private equity have to extract MORE MORE MORE from us . It’s disgusting. We should be working less hours now and whatever the opposite of enshitificstion is , that should be happening .

Over diagnosing due to monetary gain potential. Happened to me.

awareness of mental disorders have increased, yes

“nobody was autistic back when i was a kid”-ass headline

It’s worth mentioning that there’s societal issues (socioeconomic, work culture, anxiety over how we’re perceived while being constantly recorded, politics, family rifts from politics, online/phone escapism, social media manipulation/engagement farming, etc) that we’re trying to treat in a 1-on-1 therapeutic environment.

This is problematic for a variety of reasons.
1) ***We can’t solve societal issues with psychology solutions.*** It does not solve those issues, it can only help us *cope* with them.

2) There’s not enough skilled psychologists to address the increased need. Getting someone even moderately skilled and functional for a counselor is a coin flip, at best. Finding someone truly skilled at therapy is nigh impossible, and they simply don’t have enough time slots to address the need. Everyone else is left with counselors who misdiagnosis (for a variety of reasons, not the least of which is simply not having the raw IQ the field demands) and rely on too few tools for too complex of issues.

3) These two combined create cyclical scenarios where mental health needs, even if properly identified, are increasingly not addressed in a meaningful fashion. This leads people to *maybe* having an idea of what’s going on with them, but not having someone skilled enough to help them navigate it. Also, blaming themselves too much for being unable to navigate increasingly insidious & exploitative corruption.

tldr – society is increasing our stress levels, anxiety, and the wrong kinds of self awareness, and the high skill/IQ required to be an effective counselor places an impossible burden on psychology to address societal issues that continue to devolve.

Naw, we just got better at diagnosing them and that folks are actually SEEKING out help without stigma or retaliation.

There’s an experiment called rat park. By Bruce Alexander. It’s been used alot of different ways to justify bunches of different mental health and substance use policies. And it’s generally a pretty easy way to explain addiction/connection/recovery and isolation and the relationship between them.

However if you took the rat utopia that allowed rats to stop using drugs. And then ringed that rat utopia with a ring of rats that are actively tortured.

The rats inside utopia would expireence distress over the rat torture they can’t solve or impact.

Moral injury is real and the world is built on it.

Have doubled or have more research and documentation?

I wonder if there’s a correlation with income inequality?