Britain has been placed at the foot of a mental wellbeing index, but there are bright spots amid the gloom
  • Jennie@lemmygrad.ml
    18·
    8 months ago

    As someone who lives in the UK, I can confirm that this is accurate. The UK is a disaster of a country and I’m making plans to leave ASAP.

    • Aku@lemm.ee
      7·
      8 months ago

      What’s so bad? There was a time when I wanted to try to move there.

      • Jennie@lemmygrad.ml
        18·
        8 months ago

        Conservative government ridiculously underfunding the understaffed NHS which is causing 18 month wait times for simple MRI scans, understaffed and expensive dentists meaning people are resorting to pulling out their own teeth, both of the main parties are incredibly transphobic, the cost of greed crisis (I refuse to call it a cost of “living” crisis) means everyone is struggling to even afford food, among many many other reasons but those are the main ones for me

        • Aku@lemm.ee
          8·
          8 months ago

          Oh wow hate to hear that. When I visited the UK in 2018 I really loved it. So much so that I was researching areas to live and a path to moving there but it never panned out.

          18 month wait for a simple MRI is ridiculous. Do people have to wait or can they choose a different doctor / dentist? I am in the US so while I wouldn’t have to wait it would cost me an arm and a leg. Even with insurance through my employer I still would owe.

          It really does feel like the world is heading backwards right now.

          • Jennie@lemmygrad.ml
            3·
            8 months ago

            Most GPs are completely booked up unless you live in a town no one cares about meaning its nigh on impossible to just find a different doctor, same with dentists. Something like 80% of dentists are not taking on new patients.

  • multitotal@lemmygrad.ml
    9·
    8 months ago

    A load of bs. I mean the whole “study”.

    Measuring mental wellbeing is a tricky business. But the US non-profit, Sapien Labs, has had a go with its Mental State of the World report

    Our Founding Story Sapien Labs was born out of a weekend experiment with shocking results. In 2014 our founder Dr. Tara Thiagarajan, a PhD in Neuroscience from Stanford, was running a microfinance company called Madura that was working across 25,000 villages and small towns in India. Madura had built a research group that was working to understand drivers of economic outcome in impoverished communities. A large field team gathered data on ecosystem and individual level variables to identify those that predicted the economic success of both individuals and entire villages. Over a thousand different variables were sampled across tens of thousands of people, including cognitive metrics. In this process they encountered many unexpected and curious cognitive dimensions and outcomes. The obvious question was – what was going on in their brains?

    It’s another free market ranking with some “cognitive metrics” by someone “running a microfinance company called Madura that was working across 25,000 villages and small towns in India.” Countries with more microloan banks are happier, I bet.