Something is shifting in the English-speaking world, and it's not especially easy to put your finger on. It's not a single event. It's more of a slow deterioration — a background anxiety that keeps rising, a sense that things are more divided, more exhausting, more hopeless than they used to be. The sense that it's getting worse, that "it's all crazy," is becoming something I hear daily in therapy sessions. The 2026 World Happiness Report has put some numbers to what a lot of people have been quietly feeling. For the second year running, not one English-speaking country made the world's top ten happiest nations. Finland first. Iceland second. Denmark third. Costa Rica fourth. Australia fifteenth. The US twenty-third. The UK twenty-ninth. We are, as a group, falling behind — and the people falling fastest are the youngest.
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