" ,, most teen girls (57%) now say that they experience persistent sadness or hopelessness (up from 36% in 2011), and 30% of teen girls now say that they have seriously considered suicide (up from 19% in 2011).
Boys are doing badly too, but their rates of depression and anxiety are not as high, and their increases since 2011 are smaller."
#SocialMedia is a Major Cause of the #MentalIllness Epidemic in #Teen #Girls:
https://jonathanhaidt.substack.com/p/social-media-mental-illness-epidemic
Social Media is a Major Cause of the Mental Illness Epidemic in Teen Girls. Here’s The Evidence.
NYU Social Psychologist Jonathan Haidt makes a definitive case that social media is a major cause of mental illness in teen girls. Journalists should stop saying that the evidence is just correlational.


