One Million Claiming Benefits for "Unhappiness"

In the UK, over 1 million people are claiming benefits for mental health issues. Basically, they are too unhappy to work. The numbers claiming benefit as a result of "stress" has trebled in recent years. Even those with eating disorders have doubled, it is claimed. Similarly, the number of drug addicts and alcoholics has also risen steeply.

Are we a bunch of weak whiners? Why are people so workshy?

Whilst opposition government claim that the figures reflect the lack of suitable and effective mental health services in Britain, others may see it simply as the lazy man's route out of job responsibility.

Traditional illnesses - such as back pain - appear to be being replaced by the mental health varieties, in particular the all-encompassing "stress."

I have met many people with true stress. Their lives are a misery and it is a challenge for them to get out of bed in the mornings, let alone go to work. But the vast majority are simply those that feel a little anxious and unsettled and for whom, perhaps, life is not taking the route they would have wished.

I understand that - in part, at least. My life has not always turned out how I would have wished and I have felt "stressed". But I have never, no never, had a day off work for anything - and certainly not stress.

Am I super healthy? No. I get the same health problems as the average person. Those "average" people, however, are increasingly using mental health descriptions purely as a means to withdraw from their responsibilities in society.

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