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Symposium on Young American Men

Mental health · 2025 survey

Personal Mental Health Rating

Personally speaking, how would you rate your own overall mental health?

57% of young American men rate their own mental health as “fair,” “poor” or “very poor.”

Topline, all respondents

  • Excellent14%
  • Good26.5%
  • Fair33%
  • Poor15.2%
  • Very poor9.2%
  • Unsure2%

Most common answer

Fair

Share

33.0%

Deck page

p.31

The numbers

Personally speaking, how would you rate your own overall mental health?
ResponsePercent
Excellent14.0
Good26.5
Fair33.0
Poor15.2
Very poor9.2
Unsure2.0

In the deck

Cygnal deck, page 31: Personal Mental Health Rating

Cygnal deck, p.31 · Open this page in the PDF

Citation

Cygnal / The Lafayette Company, “Personally speaking, how would you rate your own overall mental health?”, Survey of 1,000 American men aged 16 to 28, fielded October 22–26, 2025, margin of error ±3.01%.