There really aren’t any words, so…
Almost 5 million California adults say they could use help with a mental or emotional problem, according to a survey released Wednesday by researchers at UCLA. About 1 million of them meet the criteria for “serious psychological distress.”
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According to the survey:
- Women were nearly twice as likely as men to say they needed help because they felt sad, anxious or nervous (22.7% compared to 14.3%).
- Adults under age 65 were twice as likely to perceive the need for help (20.2% compared to 9.2%).
- The poorest adults were more than five times as likely to report symptoms of serious psychological distress compared to those living well above the federal poverty level.
“The findings also demonstrate a crucial need for continued efforts to expand mental-health services and to meet threats to such services caused by the ongoing state budget crisis in Sacramento; reduced state funding for local mental health programs and public insurance programs could be devastating to hundreds of thousands of Californians with mental health needs,” the authors wrote.
No, the studies show a crucial need for a bunch of sissified Californians to cowboy up and start handling their business. Are there some folks out there with some mental issues? Having lived in the San Francisco Bay area for a few years, I can say with no hesitation there are.
But 20%?
That’s just a giant coastline of fail.
