The great rewiring: is social media really behind an epidemic of teenage mental illness?
www.nature.com
The evidence is equivocal on whether screen time is to blame for rising levels of teen depression and anxiety — and rising hysteria could distract us from tackling the real causes.
  • antidote101@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    8 months ago

    Teenagers were always mentally ill, we just make more efforts to report such nowadays.

    The education system is not a place of mental wellness, and the transition to adulthood is innately disturbing.

    • red_pigeon@lemm.eeEnglish
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      8 months ago

      Not sure if you are talking about your country or generalising all over the world. What you said is not true where I’m from, if the latter.

      • isles@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        8 months ago

        We’re (American’s specifically, but I see echoes in westernized European countries) propagandized into thinking angst is the natural state of teenagers rather than the natural state of teenagers within this specific system. I think teens can just more clearly see the brutal society they’re about to be forced into and don’t have the cognitive dissonance of benefiting from that brutal society yet.