UK Film & TV’s Mental Health Crisis Deepens, With 1,300 Workers Experiencing Suicidal Thoughts
deadline.comThe mental health crisis in the UK’s film and television study has deepened. That’s the headline finding of the Film and TV Charity‘s latest Looking Glass Survey, one of the industry’s most comprehensive studies on working conditions for British freelancers.
Some 35% of 4,300 respondents described their mental health as “poor” or “very poor,” representing a marked increase from 24% during the last study in 2022.
Suicidal thoughts were a feature among those questioned. Some 30% of respondents (or nearly 1,300 people) said they had considered taking their own life, an rise from 29% in the previous survey.
The Film and TV Charity’s results are all the more alarming when you consider that its survey sample has more than doubled from 2,000 respondents in 2022.
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