AXA Health report: Mind Health Report 2025
The Mind Health Index (MHI) gauges people’s current mental state through four categories: flourishing, getting by, languishing, struggling.
This year, 25% of respondents are flourishing, 32% are getting by, 29% are languishing, and 14% are struggling. People in the UK score somewhere in the middle, and those in France, the US and China are more likely to be flourishing.
A much higher percentage (42%) of young adults are potentially affected by depression, anxiety or stress at severe or more extreme levels, than the general population (25%).
Specific mental health stressors for young people are loneliness and social isolation (51%, compared with 40% of the general population) and excessive use of social media and digital devices (52%, compared to 36% of the general population).
The main factors negatively impacting mental health are:
- Financial instability and job insecurity (53%)
- Uncertainty about the future in a rapidly changing world (53%)
- Constant exposure to negative news in the media (45%)
- Social and political unrest (42%)
- Loneliness and social isolation (42%).
Supplied by REBA Associate Member, AXA Health
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