Adolescenti irlandesi tra meno felici nel mondo sviluppato
https://www.rte.ie/news/2025/0514/1512752-unicef-irish-teens/
di The_GoodLuck_Bear
Adolescenti irlandesi tra meno felici nel mondo sviluppato
https://www.rte.ie/news/2025/0514/1512752-unicef-irish-teens/
di The_GoodLuck_Bear
25 commenti
Life satisfaction as a teenager? Bring back the wooden spoon that teach them lol
Miserable cunts,so glad to see this,its made my fucking day. I hope they burn in the fires of Hell.
Social media is a curse on society.
Moaney shit bags.
What the fuck is this comment section…
Well ye, having your brain cell destroyed in TikTok does just that
Social media and phones are destroying childhood.
Can’t speak for the towns and cities but down the country I imagine the spread out development can’t help. Complete car dependency, insanely high insurance costs, its so isolating and infantalising.
Ah, these comments. Fuck those kids amirite? I’m guessing all of the nice people commenting here, who come off as so compassionate and empathetic, must have been very happy as teenagers. /s
Kids are kids. If we’re ranking among the most miserable in the developed world, that’s a really bad thing that should be addressed.
Good, probably the worst in civilised world.
More than 1 in 4 teenagers overweight? Ouch.
Obviously a drug problem. Damn shame. Way too difficult for these kids to get access to party drugs. They should all have a quick hook up for the good stuff.
Don’t blame the teenagers, blame the parents.
Dont blame ‘em with the soicety we built
-granny state that makes everything fun illegal bar the same pubs with early af closing hours
-no chance to idk work a fun bar job , rent cheap in a city and have loads of experiences
-3rd level education sector that doesnt delvers jobs post-degree and you probs live at home so miss uni experience
-general sense of inshitifation with crime and everything being substandard
-a society that doesnt care about or give you much representation in media/public spheres
-then add in the general woes of zoomers, social media, doomer culture, manosphere …
So glad I grew up post recession, country was less narcissist and you’d more options to do things for free or on the cheap
Ah yes growing up in a country where you’ll likely have to leave and start over to ever afford housing, and you’ve watched your older brothers or sisters work harder to have less than your parents did. Living through recessions, global pandemics, the prospect of large wars, and a future over shadowed by climate disasters and mass extinction events, no wonder they’re so happy…
>Irish teenagers are succeeding in school but struggling in life, w**ith nearly one in three 15-year-olds reporting low life satisfaction.**
15 year old is unhappy…no shit.
Tried looking at the report and I couldnt exactly find where it is mentioned the least happy? Theres a lot of graphs here and theyve seem to have picked out 1 element using life satisfaction which we seem to rank mid.
I’d also question if people have a warped view in how to manage their mental health, I just don’t feel the effects of a kids mental health is that much different in any of these countries that we’d be so much worse. For this study, it links our suicide rate and % of high life satisfaction. Given one of these compenents, were the 2nd lowest out of 35+ countries. It doesnt really add up.
In regards physical health, theres really no excuse. GAA & any sporting organisation will grab them fairly quick if they want to improve.
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I’d tell them not to worry and chin up that it eventually gets better….., but, you know…….
Not one bit surprised. They have it so tough nowadays. We dont let children be children anymore.
I have 2 young daughters in primary school and a nephew in secondary school and I was shocked at how much stuff we get home about mental health. It is constant.
Leaflets and posters everywhere in the schools, special talks etc. People constantly telling them to talk about their feelings. Jesus Christ, they are young children. They don’t know what these people are even talking about.
I don’t think its healthy for kids to be constantly examining their own thoughts and emotions at that age. Part of growing up is learning to deal with your emotions.
It has also become completely acceptable for young kids to announce that they are “introverts” nowadays. They aren’t encouraged to socialise at all “Oh Johnny and Peter are introverts they spend break time on their own”
“What are you talking about ? he’s 6. He cant even spell introvert!!”
Throw high levels of obesity, social media from the age of 12 or 13 and its an absolute mess.
Shocking Report, not to be ignored,
These are the teens doing well in school not drop outs they are talking about
“*Ireland’s youth suicide rate was also found to be above the international average.”* that shouldn’t be ok.
Most towns don’t even have a youth club. The wait times for mental health or counselling services are shocking, from experience even if you are suicidal up to 18 months !
We need to take a step back,
For a start this isn’t all about social media, in fact discord, gaming, whatsapp groups are possibly the only life line some teens have… physical help, things to do, transport are limited in a lot of places.
It’s Ireland 2025.
I’d believe it. I’m only in my 20s now but I feel like the kids today have it incredibly rough
As a mum of a teenager jesus what kind of comment section is this?? The pressure in education is big and at the same time they’re hearing from literally every available source about the raising economic uncertainity. How hard it is to build a life in Ireland, to get housing, to save money, to live comfortably, to even be able to afford a car. All while seeing influencers’ perfect life on social media where people set rich as a norm
When I was a teenager myself 20 years ago I was so excited about living on my own, having my job, paying my rent in a nice flat in the very city centre of Dublin, and still having loads of money to enjoy. What teenager would be able to do that now? They can’t and they know they can’t even if they’d like to
Also I don’t remember being 15 and hearing about wars currently happening, world catastrophes, climate change. I’m not saying it’s bad the kids are informed now and have resources to know about these things but living your life knowing about bad things happening in the world is surely not gonna help your mental health
Not surprising, really.
Bring in conscription, a spell in the army would do them good. /
Was three suicides in my secondary within 3 years.
We had one day of grievance. Anyone affected could go talk to an elderly nun who volunteered to be a chaplan.
After initially telling us about it, nothing was ever said again by the teachers. My mother said its because they’re afraid if you discuss suicide, it opens the idea up to more people and more could follow. It’s better to not bring it up.
However, surely some sort of investigation should be carried out to find the reasons those kids died. To put trained youth counsellors in place to prevent it from happening again.
There was plenty more kids with severe mental health issues and you just knew they had been bullied and probably still were. The quite meak ones with a sad look on their face that couldn’t make eye contact.
Secondary school was vicious for anyone struggling with mental health. They were easy targets and a source of entertainment for the arseholes who could often be relentless in their abuse.
I think things are changing now and but I really hope schools implement a zero tolerance approach to bullying.
Just tough it out kids, because if you persist I assure you it def gets worse.