The economic downturn is creating all kinds of issues. People are losing jobs at alarming rates, losing their homes, and are being forced to choose between items that once upon a time were not considered luxuries.
Over the last several days I have become very interested in talking about the working class professional and mental illness. I talked about an article briefly a couple of days ago. As my interest for blogging about what I am calling the “new mentally ill,” my quest for information is also growing. The reason, over the last several weeks and almost months you cannot pick up a paper or turn on the news and not hear about some tragic situation involving some used to be well to do professional harming his family or others.
I found an interesting article from USA TODAY that talks about how mental stress is increasing, as the economy gets worse. What I found most interest about this article is that it talks about a poll that has been conducted almost every day since 2008. The poll that is being done by Gallup-Healthways breaks down how mental stress is taking its toll on various groups. The poll shows that Hispanics are the most mentally stressed.
I just want to know why is it that minorities seem to be the “most” of everything. It amazes me that certain groups of people seem to always think that other certain groups of people seem to have it so damn together. This crisis is colorless and the emotions and the mental stress is colorless as well.
Losing your job is hard and many are not equipped to deal with life after work. In the near future, we are going to be hearing about a lot more horror stories concerning the jobless and mental illness. Until then check out the full article on USA TODAY.
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