Well Being: “Mental Illness” in Women; Among white women ages 18 to 29 who identified as liberal, 56.3% Have Been Diagnosed with a Mental Health Condition

Back In 2020, Pew Research Center surveyed more than 11,000 Americans. Political scientist Zach Goldberg subsequently examined the underlying data and broke the results down by age, sex, race, and political ideology.What he found was rather remarkable.Among white women ages 18 to 29 who identified as liberal, 56.3% reported that a doctor or other health-care provider had diagnosed them with a mental health condition.\Not 15%.Not 25%.Fifty-six percent.For white moderate women of the same age, the number was 28.4%.For white conservative women, 27.3%.In other words, young white liberal women were more than twice as likely as their conservative counterparts to report...