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Well Being: “Mental Illness” in Women
Worldwide the single largest source of nonfatal disability
Dr. Robert W. Malone
Sep 05, 2026
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 having received a mental health diagnosis.
Now, correlation is not causation. Perhaps liberals are simply more willing to seek psychiatric care. Perhaps conservatives are less willing to admit that they have a problem. Perhaps political ideology attracts people with particular personality traits rather than creating those traits. All perfectly reasonable possibilities.
But here is where it gets interesting.
Five years later, the numbers have not exactly moved in a reassuring direction.
Gallup found that only 15% of American women ages 18–29 surveyed from 2020 through 2024 described their mental health as excellent. In 2010–2014, that number had been 48%.
That is not a small decline. That is a collapse.
And the ideological divide is still there.
The 2024 American Family Survey found that only 12% of liberal women ages 18–40 described themselves as “completely satisfied” with their lives.
Among moderate women: 28%.
Among conservative women: 37%.
Liberal women were also nearly three times as likely as conservative women to report feeling lonely several times a week or more: 29% versus 11%.
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https://www.malone.news/p/well-being-mental-illness-in-women