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Teen anxiety and depression are at near-record highs: The latest government survey of high schoolers, conducted in 2023, found that more than half of teen girls said they felt “persistently sad or hopeless.”
Derek Thompson • The Anti-Social Century
the rate of suicide in the developed world is also much higher than in traditional societies.
Yuval Noah Harari • Homo Deus
the increases were similar for both sexes—roughly 150%. In other words, depression became roughly two and a half times more prevalent.