Depression and Burnout Disability in Belgium Rises Thirty-two Percent, Report Finds

Belgium faces dramatic rise in work disability from depression and burnout cases. Report from official Belgian health insurer highlights alarming mental health-related absence increase.

From twenty twenty-one to twenty twenty-five, psychiatric disability rates significantly climbed.

Depression or burnout now drive nearly forty percent of long-term work absences. Most affected individuals are over fifty, with women most impacted overall, surprising experts.

Self-employed saw the sharpest rise, but employee and jobseeker rates also grew. Health system burden soars: costs exceed two point five billion euros for year.