Are politics making you...sick?

Wednesday, September 25, 2019
SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- With all the day-to-day drama going down in Washington, and now with the Trump impeachment inquiry, are all the politics driving you a bit crazy? If so, you are definitely not alone.

A new study from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln says the polarizing political scene is indeed making us sick.
[Ads /]
The data and public opinion company YouGov collected data from more than 1.8 million people to study how people were dealing with all the political cacophony.

A third have lost their temper-- 20-percent say politics just tired them out, and 1-in-5 say political differences have damaged a friendship.
[Ads /]
But possibly most scary-- political scientist Kevin Smith led the research and said four-percent of respondents had suicidal thoughts because of politics.

Smith said with so many people at their breaking point it's practically a public health crisis.
Copyright © 2024 KGO-TV. All Rights Reserved.