Title: Lonely, Burned Out, Depressed: the State of Millennials' Mental Health
Headings: Lonely, burned out, and depressed: The state of millennials' mental health in 2020
Lonely, burned out, and depressed: The state of millennials' mental health in 2020
Millennials suffer from burnout, depression, and loneliness.
Millennials are experiencing a "health shock" largely fueled by a decline in mental health.
Depression is on the rise among millennials.
"Deaths of despair" are also on the rise.
Suicide attempts have especially increased among Black youths.
It's partly linked to money stress.
Money stress isn't just contributing to millennials' mental health — it also means not everyone can afford to seek treatment.
Millennials are also lonely.
And they're dealing with burnout in and out of the workplace.
Many millennials dealing with mental-health problems at work say their office does not provide adequate support.
Employees who work outside a traditional 9-to-5 are particularly vulnerable to depression, as are women, LGBTQ people, and racial minorities.
Globally, workers say discrimination because of a mental illness is more prevalent than other forms of workplace bias.
Nearly half of millennials have left a job for mental-health reasons.
For all their mental-health issues, there's a bright side — millennials, known as "the therapy generation," are helping to destigmatize therapy.
If you're struggling with depression, get help.
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Content: for Black girls, that's 182%, according to a study by the Journal of Community Health. Burnett-Zeigler wrote that, in her experience working with black women, childhood abuse and neglect are linked to suicide attempts in their youth. "Black youths too often receive the messages that their lives are not valued and that they are less deserving of support, nurturing and protection than their peers of other backgrounds," wrote Burnett-Zeiggler, who's an associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Northwestern Medical School. "Many Black youths are often fighting for their lives in a system actively working against them, which can be exhausting and feel like a pointless, uphill battle," she added. It's partly linked to money stress. Aleli Dezmen/Getty Images
But there are other structural factors at play behind the uptick in "deaths of despair," according to the Trust for America's Health and Well Being Trust — namely the myriad financial problems millennials are facing: student-loan debt, healthcare, childcare, and an expensive housing market. These four costs are part of The Great American Affordability Crisis plaguing millennials that's putting them financially behind. Studies have found a correlation between people with debt and mental-health problems. While this research, by its nature, can't identify causality, the likelihood of having a mental-health disorder is three times higher among those with unsecured debt, according to a meta-analysis, or study of studies, in the Clinical Psychology Review.