People who identify as being two or more races (24.9%) are most likely to report any mental illness within the past year than any other race/ethnic group, followed by American Indian/Alaska Natives (22.7%), white (19%), and black (16.8%).
Whether depression, anxiety, schizophrenia, or an eating disorder, these conditions can have a substantial, detrimental impact on a person's life and well-being. Both men and women can develop a mental health disorder, however, more women are affected than men.
Mental health is shaped by cultural factors such as family background, religion, social norms, and traditions. Each of these factors can impact an individual's mental health differently.
But a society's culture also impacts a person's beliefs, norms and values. It impacts how you view certain ideas or behaviors. And in the case of mental health, it can impact whether or not you seek help, what type of help you seek and what support you have around you.
More often, culture bears on whether people even seek help in the first place, what types of help they seek, what types of coping styles and social supports they have, and how much stigma they attach to mental illness. Culture also influences the meanings that people impart to their illness.
In 2021/22, 1.81 million people were referred to IAPT, 1.24 million entered treatment, and 688,000 finished a course of treatment. The number of referrals was a rise on the previous year (1.41 million) and 2019/20 (1.69 million). Source: NHS Digital, Psychological Therapies, Annual IAPT Report 2021/22.
Mixed anxiety and depression is Britain's most common mental disorder, with 7.8% of people meeting the criteria for diagnosis. 4 to 10% of people in England will experience depression in their lifetime.
lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender and intersex (LGBTI) populations. Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) populations. older adults. people who are divorced, widowed, separated or single.
The prevalence of anxiety disorders varies by race. One study found that White Americans demonstrate more symptoms of anxiety disorders when compared to minority groups. The only exception to this trend is post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), which tends to be more common among African Americans.
Culture dominates behavior and emotions. Some cultures allow people to express feelings with ease while others suppress those feelings. According to Shah, some global reports indicate that depression is more common in certain countries, such as large countries like the United States, China, India and Bangladesh.
Non-Hispanic white adults (16.5%) were the most likely to have experienced symptoms of anxiety that were either mild, moderate, or severe in the past 2 weeks, and non-Hispanic Asian adults (8.5%) were the least likely, compared with Hispanic (14.5%) and non-Hispanic black (14.6%) adults (Figure 4).
In particular, higher rates of mental health problems are associated with poverty and socio-economic disadvantage. Across the life-course (documents 4 to 7), examples of groups identified as high priority are: women who are pregnant or have a child aged under 12 months. children living at a socio-economic disadvantage.
More than 15 million people - 30% of the UK population - live with one or more long-term conditions, and more than 4 million of these people will also have mental health problems.
Champion's research also revealed that younger employees are more likely to be affected by symptoms of depression. 61% of employees aged 16-24 are experiencing symptoms of depression, which is the highest out of all age groups.
Depression. Impacting an estimated 300 million people, depression is the most-common mental disorder and generally affects women more often than men.
Approximately 1 in 4 people in the UK will experience a mental health problem each year [1]. In England, 1 in 6 people report experiencing a common mental health problem (such as anxiety and depression) in any given week [2].
60% of employees are experiencing anxiety. 67% of employees aged 16-24 are experiencing anxiety. 65% of females are experiencing anxiety. Only 10% of employees are seeking mental health support.
1. Main points. The following information is for the period 29 September to 23 October 2022, based on adults in Great Britain. Around 1 in 6 (16%) adults experienced moderate to severe depressive symptoms; this is similar to rates found in summer 2021 (17%), however higher than pre-pandemic levels (10%).
Viewing mental illness as a social construct is a branch of social constructivism. This is the argument that knowledge and meaning are socially constructed within the societies/cultures we live in. Social constructivists claim that, similarly, mental illness is also socially constructed.
"Among some immigrant and refugee families, discussions of mental health problems or mental illness is taboo, due to a cultural perspective that mental illnesses signify being 'crazy' or 'mad,' thereby preventing families from seeking help because of fear of bringing shame on the family," she says.
culture-bound syndrome
a pattern of mental illness and abnormal behavior that is unique to a specific ethnic or cultural population and does not conform to standard classifications of psychiatric disorders.
Mental health problems may more often be a factor in homicides than gang membership, with most killings potentially preventable, a study suggests.