La ricerca rivela un allarmante declino della salute mentale giovanile in Inghilterra
https://www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/research-reveals-alarming-decline-in-youth-mental-health-in-england/
di OGSyedIsEverywhere
La ricerca rivela un allarmante declino della salute mentale giovanile in Inghilterra
https://www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/research-reveals-alarming-decline-in-youth-mental-health-in-england/
di OGSyedIsEverywhere
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It’s okay dont worry, we’ve got a legion of hallucinating AI psychological support workers coming to you soon.
I thought my generation had got shafted hard when we left school as the 08 crash happened. Never did I think I wouldn’t envy those who came next, crazy times.
no shit it’s in decline, the future is looking pretty bleak
Well the country isn’t exactly giving the kids much to work with is it really?
Not a big surprise. There’s no future here. Especially for young working class people
Well yeah.
No Gods, no masters.
Why do anything? Everything trends to entropy and decay.
Well, let’s see what’s against us:
* AI.
* Climate change.
* Manosphere.
* Social atomisation.
* Political polarisation.
* Incompetent governments all our lives.
* Erosion of privacy.
* Increasing wars.
* COVID and all that came with it.
* Job market stalling.
* AI taking jobs.
* Third recession before we’ve even entered the job market.
* Increasing anti-intellectualism.
* COVID taking a toll on the grey matter.
* (Controversial one.) Illegal immigration at unsustainable levels.
* Microplastics in our blood.
* Rise of the far-right, propelled by the immigration thing again.
* The internet streaming all the horrors of the world right into our eyeballs.
* Earnings going down by 0.2% as older people get up to a 4.7% boost on average.
* Homes being unaffordable.
* Ditto, renting.
* Tuition hikes.
* Austerity.
And that’s off the top of my head, and in no particular order. There’s probably more. But all these factors are dragging everyone down, but some are particularly shafting the young, I think. Still, on the upside, we’ll have plenty of stories to tell in the future… if we have a future.
Well it’s only gotten shitter since 2008. And only going to get shitter, probably. Not a lot to be enthusiastic about.
Anyone with any power/money doesn’t care, they know the future is in AI and not children and anything that can’t be done by AI will just be done with cheap labour by people from other countries willing to work harder for less.
I’m not the “youth” by any means, I’m in my late 20s, but it was shit was I was the youth and it’s worse now. Young people are watching their parents struggle along with life, and they know their parents have it good compared to them. It is a bleak feeling,
Couldn’t possibly be to do with Student Loan Debt, no fulfilling jobs, nowhere near enough income to rent/buy a reasonable place in this totally unbalanced capitalist society serving only the rich, could it!?
I’m curious how this compares historically but I expect the data doesn’t exist.
There have been periods in even recent history when the average young person in the UK had a worse life with fewer prospects, but did they have proportionally similar mental health issues? The culture around mental health was so different it would be difficult to compare, but learned helplessness as a coping mechanism at least seems more widespread today. Of course I have no idea if it’s the same and I’m just less aware of it historically and more aware of it contemporarily.
The paper discusses evidence for social media usage causing at least part of the decline, and I suppose that’s the real question I’m asking. To what degree is our psychology becoming harmfully dysregulated by algorithms designed to keep us sat inside staring at our phones? Why did the 14 year old Victorian miner with more chance of developing black lung than ever owning their own home get up day after day, but the zoomer who lives a life of relative luxury gives up all hope because house prices are unaffordable on an average wage? There are obviously loads of legitimate problems at the moment but is the modern mind less capable of dealing with them? Or is becoming a NEET and doomscrolling your life away just what learned helplessness looks like today, where a century ago someone would keep going through the motions and just develop a substance abuse issue?