Last year I listened to an interesting program on Swedish public radio about this topic. There was a researcher there who said something similar; that Swedish y

Last year I listened to an interesting program on Swedish public radio about this topic. There was a researcher there who said something similar; that Swedish youth today are more likely to answer that they are depressed even though if you looked the actual questions they were not saying that they were less happy than previous age groups that had answered similar but did not see themselves as depressed. There was an expectation that they should be depressed because there are so many stories about kids these days being depressed. It could be a self fulfilling prophecy for some and if you add internet where a lot of people tend to make their diagnosis their whole life. My guess is that if you are feeling depressed it can be very comforting to talk with other people in the same state but I'm not sure how healthy it is in the long run if you spend a lot of time in such communities. That said I think it is also a rougher way to grow up in many ways than it was for me. Your life might be hyper connected but I think for some that will only suck more when they are lonely outcasts and see everyone else's (appearance of) happy life on Instagram.