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The mental health of adolescents and young adults has been on the decline and it’s partly because of “harmful megatrends” like financial inequality, according to a new report published on Tuesday in the scientific journal The Lancet Psychiatry. The global trends affecting younger generations also include wage theft, unregulated social media, job insecurity and climate change, all of which are creating “a bleak present and future for young people in many countries,” according to the authors.

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[–] PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 6 points 4 weeks ago

It's not a mental health crisis, it's a perfectly justified physiological response to environment. We are heading down the wrong path and our ability to cure stress is going to be capped far before we exhaust our ability to create it.

Imagine we had a subset of our society whose job it was to crawl in sewage without PPE. Would anyone really call the ensuing illness a "health crisis" when the causes are so apparent and so socially-selected?