Is social media behind an epidemic of teenage mental illness?
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#2I always wonder when an "epidemic" gets reported if things really have changed or if we just recognize it better. When I grew up, we had a lot of kids (including myself) with problems like depression or not fitting in in other ways. Back then they were just labeled as "slow", "stupid" or "difficult". Nobody thought about mental illness or ways for addressing these issues.
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#3insert skinner meme here
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#4The trends in increased mental illness, suicide and the unraveling social fabric pre-date social media. Bowling Alone was written in 2000. These are mostly economic issues manifesting itself in all sorts of negative social ways.
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#5The definitions, and diagnoses, of mental illnesses have been significantly redefined in the last few decades which is a significant confounding factor that I'm not sure can be corrected for.
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#6For anyone who reads the comments before TFA: yes, it’s just more Haidt.
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#7It would help if the author provided a definition of what it means to "rewire" the brain, or what it means to "drive" an epidemic of mental illness.
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#8Couldn't possibly be the political turmoil, the daily mass shootings, 2 years of lockdown, poor healthcare resources, etc.
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#9I always wonder when an "epidemic" gets reported if things really have changed or if we just recognize it better. When I grew up, we had a lot of kids (including myself) with problems like depression or not fitting in in other ways. Back then they were just labeled as "slow", "stupid" or "difficult". Nobody thought about mental illness or ways for addressing these issues.
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#10Maybe? Possibly?
You know how many nerds didn't know they had any sort of issue other than being antisocial and lonely, and then someone made Slashdot aware of Asperger's and suddenly 90% of the site was self-diagnosed?