Kids are Experiencing More Mental Health Problems

New research suggests that youth today suffer from five times the amount of mental health issues as their  counterparts during the Great Depression era. Dr. Jean Twenge, of San Diego State University, author of Generation Me, and The Narcissism Eipidemic, was kind enough to send me an advance copy soon to be published in Clinical Psychology Review.

·       Some contributing factors: popular culture increasingly focused on the external — from wealth to looks and status.
·       "hypomania," a measure of anxiety and unrealistic optimism rose from 5% of students i n 1938 to 31% in 2007 and depression from 1% to 6%).
·       increases in "psychopathic deviation," loosely related to a milder form of psychopathic behavior, is characterized by rebellion to authority and feeling as an exception to rules and norms. This percentage of youth rose from 5% in 1938 to 24% in 2007.
·       overprotective parents leave their children few real-world coping skills, whether that means doing their own budget or confronting professors on their own—without such skills, anxiety is to be  expected.
·       Students themselves point to pressure to succeed — self-imposed and otherwise — to a fast-paced world that's only sped up by the technology they love so much.

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