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America’s Top Export May Be Anxiety
- Young Adults Are in Crisis - The Atlantic
from Young Adults Are in Crisis — The Atlantic by Faith Hill
Salman Ansari added
Young adults are the ones most in crisis. Even Richard Weissbourd, who led the study in 2022, was taken aback. His team found that 36 percent of participants ages 18 to 25 reported experiencing anxiety and 29 percent reported experiencing depression—about double the proportion of 14-to-17-year-olds on each measure. More than half of young adults were worried about money, felt that the pressure to achieve hurt their mental health, and believed that their lives lacked meaning or purpose. Teenagers and senior citizens are actually the two populations with the lowest levels of anxiety and depression, Weissbourd’s research has found.
- In Lauren Oyler’s essay about anxiety last week, she referenced a late 19th century diagnosis known as Americanitis , which described “the high-strung, nervous, active temperament of the American people.” Whether incited by advances in technology (causing loss of sleep, excessive worry) or capitalism (causing long work days, fast pace of life), the... See more
from #172: Trick questions by Haley Nahman
Lani Assaf and added
The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness
