>It astonishes me to see people defending the idea that the pandemic is not a notable component of this. The CDC study was specifically in relation to covid lo

>It astonishes me to see people defending the idea that the pandemic is not a notable component of this. The CDC study was specifically in relation to covid lockdowns. Virtually everyone pointed out how this would happen and that this unprecedented move to lockdown the healthy vs the standard for thousands of years of quarantining the sick. The cost is far worse than the healthcare system melting down. Then again you look at Quebec nurses... they literally went to the United Nations to say they are slaves. Provincial government is doing it to them. Federal government is tyrannical. They had to go to the UN. Insanity how bad our healthcare system is collapsing. > I agree that social media, internet porn, competitive school environment, economic conditions, etc., are all negative influences on teenage mental health. So something that north america doesnt seem to have that most of the world does have... imagine you are poland or somewhere in the middle east. You fear war every single day. People who live there think about having to escape every day. North America doesn't have that. Nobody fears a surprise war because thousands of nukes will launch out of fear wiping out whoever is attacking. Flipside, Russia's new threat of imminent nuclear war means North American teens will now have to worry about their impending doom. This return of the cold war will make things worse; not measured in this study.