The upstream cause of the youth mental health crisis is the loss of community
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Re: The upstream cause of the youth mental health crisis is the loss of community
#2There are so many candidates for causes here. Thinking about and watching climate change can't be good for, say, a teenager imagining their future. Of course, that teenager is also watching the world not coming together to solve this problem so you could say the situation is connected to "loss of community" in a way.
Re: The upstream cause of the youth mental health crisis is the loss of community
#3There are so many candidates for causes here. Thinking about and watching climate change can't be good for, say, a teenager imagining their future. Of course, that teenager is also watching the world not coming together to solve this problem so you could say the situation is connected to "loss of community" in a way.
I wonder if there's any useful parallels to children and teenagers growing up during the Cold War - that feels somewhat analogous, at least in the terms of a looming threat that could be solved by more cooperation.
Re: The upstream cause of the youth mental health crisis is the loss of community
#4There are so many candidates for causes here. Thinking about and watching climate change can't be good for, say, a teenager imagining their future. Of course, that teenager is also watching the world not coming together to solve this problem so you could say the situation is connected to "loss of community" in a way.
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Re: The upstream cause of the youth mental health crisis is the loss of community
#5There are so many candidates for causes here. Thinking about and watching climate change can't be good for, say, a teenager imagining their future. Of course, that teenager is also watching the world not coming together to solve this problem so you could say the situation is connected to "loss of community" in a way.
> Thinking about and watching climate change can't be good for, say, a teenager imagining their future.
That doesn't make sense. Kids in previous generations had to grow up with things like the omnipresent threat of nuclear annihilation, which had greatly faded into the background until very recently. Also (at least in the 80s) destruction of the environment was a an issue kids were made very aware of. At least when it comes to this teen mental health crisis, the 70s and 80s are often understood to have been far better.
I think pointing to climate change as a cause of the teen mental health crisis is a good illustration of how issue activists can twist and distort perceptions.
Re: The upstream cause of the youth mental health crisis is the loss of community
#6There are so many candidates for causes here. Thinking about and watching climate change can't be good for, say, a teenager imagining their future. Of course, that teenager is also watching the world not coming together to solve this problem so you could say the situation is connected to "loss of community" in a way.
Majority of kids and teens do not care about that, as much as we’d assume. They are aware, but their day to day is what is important to them.
Friends, relationships, drama — they are kids.
Re: The upstream cause of the youth mental health crisis is the loss of community
#7There are so many candidates for causes here. Thinking about and watching climate change can't be good for, say, a teenager imagining their future. Of course, that teenager is also watching the world not coming together to solve this problem so you could say the situation is connected to "loss of community" in a way.
It’s so much more than that. It’s the continually enshittification of literally everything. It's a hypercapitalist hellscape.
Re: The upstream cause of the youth mental health crisis is the loss of community
#8I've personally noticed that my own value of autonomy has often contributed to a reduction in social activity and community integration. I used to be very selective of what I did with others. If I had an invite from friends and the activity didn't seem immediately interesting to me, I'd decline. I've since learned to say yes more (but not always) to invites and particularly consider ones that are more outside my comfort zone. This does however require a sacrifice of my individualism that is so heavily prized in western culture.
Re: The upstream cause of the youth mental health crisis is the loss of community
#9There are so many candidates for causes here. Thinking about and watching climate change can't be good for, say, a teenager imagining their future. Of course, that teenager is also watching the world not coming together to solve this problem so you could say the situation is connected to "loss of community" in a way.
I would say the biggest cause is the endless feed of bad news(good news does not sell well) coupled with unrealistically high expectations social media gives to the people.
Re: The upstream cause of the youth mental health crisis is the loss of community
#10Who knew utterly destroying cities and replacing them with gated communities with no accommodations for children whatsoever, and borderline criminalizing any activity which isn't closely supervised would have knock-on effects.