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Didn't these dark period also come with a pretty significant amount of diagnozed or not mental health issues, teen bullying and suicide, and overall deep impact
by makeitdouble 4y ago
Didn't these dark period also come with a pretty significant amount of diagnozed or not mental health issues, teen bullying and suicide, and overall deep impact on people ?
I also have elder relatives who lived a decent part of their life in a third world country during the cold war and their stories are sprinkled with people dying early.
I think that yes, the current generation probably doesn't have it the absolute worse (depending on where they live), but it's also not a contest. Which generation had it worse doesn't really matter much IMHO.
- AbrahamParangi 4y agoWell, if this generation has it better in absolute terms but feels worse we should look for reasons not related to the actual state of the world, no?
- makeitdouble 4y agoI hear you, but trying to evaluate if a generation feels worse while having it better in absolute terms feels like a pretty hard challenge. For instance the article focuses on teen suicide rate raising with the uptake of modern smartphones, but of course there’s other peaks in the past, especially for males between 1980 and 1995 for instance. https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/66/wr/mm6630a6.htm https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/66/wr/mm6630a6.htm Did these specific boys have it worse at that time ? I genuinely have no idea how we’d evaluate that, I wouldn’t be checking how much money they had to judge that, and it would be probably tough to compare to girls today.
- tgv 4y agoIt's not a contest, but it does mean that it shouldn't be seen as a dominant factor in the explanation of today's teens' mental health.