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87.7% of entrepreneurs struggle with at least one mental health issue
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Re: 87.7% of entrepreneurs struggle with at least one mental health issue
#12I question the value of pathologizing every aberration in society - Everyone's weird and a little crazy. :-)
This makes me think of Michel Foucault's perspective on mental illness. That what we pathologize in society is related to what society values negatively in someone's personality and temperament. I agree that this has been historically true but may be changing more with the modern approach to mental illness. The way the idea of pathology was taught to me when I took my introductory Psychology classes was framed more i…
> but may be changing more with the modern approach to mental illness.
The only thing that's changed is what we consider pathological.
Re: 87.7% of entrepreneurs struggle with at least one mental health issue
#13Is 87.7% more, or less, than the baseline rate
According to the the NIMH, in the US in 2021, a bit more than 20% of the general population had at least one mental health issue. https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/statistics/mental-illness
However here are mental health struggles listed. Poor work life balance or loneliness are not mental health issues comparable to those NIMH includes.
Re: 87.7% of entrepreneurs struggle with at least one mental health issue
#14If you’re an entrepreneur and don’t suffer from anxiety and/or depression I fear you might be insane.
Re: 87.7% of entrepreneurs struggle with at least one mental health issue
#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
According to the the NIMH, in the US in 2021, a bit more than 20% of the general population had at least one mental health issue. https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/statistics/mental-illness
Could be an apples to oranges comparison given how anxiety inducing entrepreneurship is. If you consider anxiety as a mental health issue, 87.7% is an underestimate
Anxiety is considered a mental health issue by both the featured article and by NIMH, and considering that the 87.7% figure is self-reported, it's probably overestimated.
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#17Is 87.7% more, or less, than the baseline rate
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#18https://duckduckgo.com/?q=entrepreneur+toxoplasma :(
ADHD is also far over-represented, I think, which makes sense. a) novelty-seeking b) new problems to solve c) less likely to have a lot of formal education, etc etc.
Re: 87.7% of entrepreneurs struggle with at least one mental health issue
#19Is 87.7% more, or less, than the baseline rate
According to the the NIMH, in the US in 2021, a bit more than 20% of the general population had at least one mental health issue. https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/statistics/mental-illness
On the other hand, NIMH says 31.1% of U.S. adults have anxiety https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/statistics/any-anxiety-disor...
Re: 87.7% of entrepreneurs struggle with at least one mental health issue
#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
Could be an apples to oranges comparison given how anxiety inducing entrepreneurship is. If you consider anxiety as a mental health issue, 87.7% is an underestimate
Anxiety is considered a mental health issue by both the featured article and by NIMH, and considering that the 87.7% figure is self-reported, it's probably overestimated.
If anxiety is a “mental health issue” then 100% of people have mental health issues. Show me a person who’s not anxious about at least something in their life. But it’s especially prominent for entrepreneurs who take on a lot more risk than a normal person