Social Media is a Major Cause of the Mental Illness Epidemic in Teen Girls. Here’s the Evidence.
A big story last week was the partial release of the CDC’s bi-annual Youth Risk Behavior Survey, which showed that most teen girls (57%) now say that they experience persistent sadness or hopelessness (up from 36% in 2011), and 30% of teen girls now say that they have seriously considered suicide (up from 19% in 2011). Boys are doing badly too, but their rates of depression and anxiety are not as high, and their increases since 2011 are smaller. As I showed in my…
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7 months ago · 430 likes · 164 comments · Jon Haidt
