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kleinbl00 · 429 days ago · link · · parent · post: The Teen Mental Illness Epidemic Began Around 2012
From here It's a Gallup poll, but aside from "how do you feel" polls your other likely proxy is utilization? Which is definitely correlated with our fucked up healthcare system. And it's most assuredly picking up the tail end of COVID which was worst on teen mental health. That said, it says a lot. The biggest trend in child-rearing of the past 30 years has definitely been the decline of autonomy. You get most of that back when you become an adult - whether you know what to do with it or not is another question - but any expert you ask, from Turkle to boyd to Skenazy, will argue that the biggest contribution to teen mental health issues is the decline of autonomy.
