We caudle now so why is mental health worse off?

Yes it’s clearly all the weed and not the horrific SSRIs that literally list suicide and violence as a side effect. All hail Big Pharma.

Humans are obligate carnivores, and heavy plant sourced diets (now75% of calories), especially processed foods, trigger a stress response as the brain interprets the inadequate nutrition (despite high caloric intake) as a state of famine and anxiety, especially as physical strength diminishes. Easy cheap calories leads to fat, weak and depressed people, who are easily manipulated by fear and stigma.

A big part of it, I’m sure.

The correlation between the advent of smart phones and increased mental health issues, particularly in young people shouldn’t be ignored. The pattern is astonishing and the numbers staggering.

One of the biggest ways smart phones have had a detrimental impact on (particularly young) lives is sleep. And that is an enormous contributor to mental well-being.

It has virtually nothing to do with “coddling”. This ridiculous notion that so many people have that kids shouldn’t be treated gently is harmful. Being hard on people makes hard people. It doesn’t make loving, kind, gentle, compassionate people. You want a child to grow up resilient and strong? Treat them well, lovingly, and gently. That’s where strength comes from.

It's more stressful now. Information overload isn't good for mental health.

In the past people had down time, privacy, anonymity.

Agreed. Constant comparison and information overload. Our brains weren’t designed for this.

Also, if you think about it there are kids who will literally never have known a life without social media.

YMMV is back baby!

Caudle

tldr;

Pharma and rec drugs are a poor patch attempt to compensate for instituted malnutrition. Get all the kids weak and confused, hooked on weed, Ritalin and SSRIs and run the whole world as you see fit.

This is old man balony.

Whenever you "die" in a video game, whatever the game may be, you pretty much always have to start over and try again. You have to have the patience of a monk to beat even the simple, old games like Super Mario World.

The problem with video games is that they can be addictive and avid gamers are prone to neglecting their physical fitness and sitting inside all day. But you can't say they don't require resiliency.

Ummm, yeah! Obesity, drug abuse, and mental illness are three of the largest drivers for high healthcare costs in the US. Stop coddling and mental illness largely goes away. I propose work camps for the mentally ill. Nothing like bucking hay to get your mind straight.

or cauterize. Used to may have been their wounds would bleed out more.

Generally, the vast amount of mental health challenges in our society result from people's inability to healthily deal with difficult and unpleasant emotions.

The first issue comes from stigma, people who experience mental illness are quite simply not treated well by virtually most people in society. This leads to people denying there's an issue for weeks, months, and years which exacerbates these conditions. Then the initial knee jerk reaction to immediately arrive at a "solution" for these difficulties is also what perpetuates and exacerbates these difficult emotions. Then there quite simply aren't enough good therapists... The good ones charge $200-500 an hour in the US usually and they don't take insurance. Hence why you're seeing things like eating disorder and anxiety/OCD coaches come about who are usually recovered sufferers coaching others through whatever their treatment was.

Most successful treatment for something like depression, eating disorders, substance abuse, anxiety/OCD, insomnia, etc. involves addressing and changing beliefs (cognitive) and then changing behaviors (behavioral) which is essentially the framework for Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) which is the primary therapeutic framework from which most effective therapists base their treatments. A big part of this is learning to live with, accept, and even embrace difficult emotions like despair, panic, anxiety, sadness, grief, loss, anger, sadness, guilt, shame, etc. The habituation model is the process by which your body acclimates to these difficult emotions, similar to being in a cold ocean... When the cold no longer bothers you, the ocean didn't get warmer, you just got used to it. Mindfulness and exposure response prevention are the best techniques for pursuing habituation.

The likelihood of the average person who is sick with mental illness and navigating an imperfect system and exhibiting the ability to find and commit to good treatment, do the work no matter how hard consistently and do this with a good mental health provider's guidance, is low. All in a society rife with biases, prejudices, and priorities that foster and perpetuate mental illness on a broad scale.

this is almost persuasive, but then I remembered what kind of music Gen Z likes. It's like a simplistic autotuned R and B played on an old 8-bit game console.

Depression can spark deliberately bad genres, like punk and emo, but Gen Z music is more like a commitment to passive mediocrity. To excel is against the group. Normally kids do this to rebel against authority but grow out of it, before it becomes a stubborn insistence on failure.

Absolutely. Mass shootings [at least those that don't involve gang violence (which, incidentally, centers around the drug and human trafficking)] at their core are suicide attempts. The link between marijuana use in adolescence and suicide is well established.

nida.nih.gov

Cannabis use may be associated with suicidality in young adults | National Institute on Drug Abuse

National Institute on Drug Abuse

NIH study suggests a link between cannabis use and higher levels of suicidal ideation, plan, and attempt

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On average, kids today are born to older women compared to 75 years ago. Are kids born to (35 to 45) year old women more fragile? No one dare in academia do the study. Risky to one's career.

Something else is at work. There are other countries with much lower rates of mental illness where they are treated much worse with fewer treatment resources.

There are so many things wrong with this way of thinking.

#snowflake

Strawberry generation

Right. Blame it on the mother only! 🤦🏻‍♀️