Everything may seem broken, but that was just as true when I was
growing up in the 1970s and when my parents were growing up in the
1930s. It is the story of humanity. If world events played a role in the
current mental health crisis, it’s not because world events suddenly got
worse around 2012; it’s because world events were suddenly being pumped
into adolescents’ brains through their phones, not as news stories, but as
social media posts in which other young people expressed their emotions
about a collapsing world, emotions that are contagious on social media.
📚 The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness.
🖋 Jonthan Haidth.
growing up in the 1970s and when my parents were growing up in the
1930s. It is the story of humanity. If world events played a role in the
current mental health crisis, it’s not because world events suddenly got
worse around 2012; it’s because world events were suddenly being pumped
into adolescents’ brains through their phones, not as news stories, but as
social media posts in which other young people expressed their emotions
about a collapsing world, emotions that are contagious on social media.
📚 The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness.
🖋 Jonthan Haidth.