People also forget how city and town designs affect our childhood and adolescence. America is a car-centric country, where we need cars to do anything which causes everything to be designed for cars. This car dependency takes hold of their independence, one of the reasons why children and teens are confined in their homes until they can afford a car later in life. Not to mention the standardized segregation of zoning in this country, we hardly find stores and other commercial amenities in our neighborhood, like corner stores and cafes, because it is illegal. These all contribute to the lack of social connections and independence the teenagers of this age are facing. Both which are essential to human development and well-being. There is a reason why Dutch teenagers are among the happiest in the world. I recommend watching "Not Just Bikes" for a more detailed explanation of car-centric topics and the alternatives for our towns and cities. (Edit: this problem exacerbates in the suburbs)

@Matt-ln1zl

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for saying this I think this contributes just as much as social media to the mental health wasteland here

@jayden6994

2 жыл бұрын

Yes 10000% agree with this. I was pretty much stuck in my house in ky until I turned old enough

@Sivah_Akash

2 жыл бұрын

Love that channel, and especially now that it is on Nebula!

@whiteprivilege7961

2 жыл бұрын

Didn't expect to hear that . Good thought .

@anyaandriyevsky7430

2 жыл бұрын

I completely agree with your point, but I feel like you can’t ignore other factors that urban people experience on a daily basis that suburban people don’t. The same works the other way around. So I wouldn’t necessarily claim that one is worse than another, especially as a whole :)

"Unattainable beauty in a world that seems like it is ending"- well said

@raulgalets

2 жыл бұрын

hits home

@michaeljosephjackson2364

2 жыл бұрын

Blame tinder

@MastaGambit

2 жыл бұрын

@@michaeljosephjackson2364 Or *don't* blame just tinder, because this is problem has existed for at least over 20 years.

@ediblecrayons2382

2 жыл бұрын

@@MastaGambit Yes! Much more than 20 years!

@colechapman6976

2 жыл бұрын

@@MastaGambit Or blame the past four thousand years when the first caveman chose the prettier cavewoman over the other one

In my perspective the key reasons behind this are: lack of human contact particularly parental guidance, heavy academic competition and above all social media which portrays everyone else's life except yours as great and fun. The pandemic has just accelerated these causes. Trust me these words come from an experienced mouth.

@trinodot8112

2 жыл бұрын

In America particularly: Also lack of access to mental healthcare to treat mental health issues brought on by the above causes

@maninthemirror9732

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah plus let's also not forget the greedy foundational structure of western society, that stresses high socio-economic achievement as being the primary path in the pursuit of happiness, almost to the seclusion of everything else, when research has shown the isolation that comes from such achievements is also a primary reason why children of wealthy families tend to suffer from mental health issues and substance abuse significantly more so than the middle class or lower. I hope that in the very near future, emerging science in the field of psychology as pertaining to meditation, and plant base medicine may help western society discover more fertile ground on which to plant seeds of deeper intrinsic happiness!

@MakaykayLAMB

2 жыл бұрын

Well said.

@briganja

2 жыл бұрын

@@user-by3rj4jj7v that makes me think of a concept in Buddhism about suffering - that even pleasurable things can ultimately lead to suffering because they are impermanent and we become afraid of losing them. Nothing is forever, and I think sometimes we fear that more when we encounter it less.

@1966bluemax

2 жыл бұрын

Academic competition. Wait till you immigrate to east Asia

-heavy academic competition -crisis everywhere -social media pressure -very little "humanization" -no local communities/spaces that aren't for academics or social media clout -working parents with little/no PTO to spend with kids It's not surprising

@florianhenig5654

Жыл бұрын

And coping with the fact living in an dying world and the people in charge just don't give a ****

@kioshi5864

Жыл бұрын

You forgot the fact they eat a terrible diet and are forced to go to school everyday with no sleep

I blame American car dependent cities and towns. In most of America, if you can't drive then you can't leave your house, and your only social life is on your computer.

@lucbloom

2 жыл бұрын

You might be onto something… You watched Strong Towns / Not Just Bikes / Climate Town?

@gabriel2339

2 жыл бұрын

exactly! the american lifestyle has no connection to nature or between people, so many other cultures have such a deeper understanding and connection to nature and self. This has to be discussed more

@cafeaulait3706

2 жыл бұрын

There’s barely any mental health care in the developing world and yet youth suicide and depression rates are far lower than in the US and many Western countries. There’s a much better sense of community in these countries and urban planning plays a massive role.

@bruhbutwhytho2301

2 жыл бұрын

@@100c0c I would say that people do so that but also at the same time it could be a part of it.

@hjer731

2 жыл бұрын

I'm from NYC where you CAN'T own a car lol. It was lonely growing up for me too

At 60 I got on Facebook. So fun checking out old friends. Within days I was becoming depressed about my life, about life itself maybe. I don’t really know. I deleted Facebook and all other social media. That sad empty feeling went away quickly. So imagine being a kid! Wow!

@whiteprivilege7961

2 жыл бұрын

No social media for me . Except KZread .

@Jay-oz4yh

2 жыл бұрын

I deleted Facebook last year and have been much happier ever since.

@Supreme-gu1jz

2 жыл бұрын

@@whiteprivilege7961 me too. KZread isn't really social media to me it's just tv that you can make comments on am I right.

@whiteprivilege7961

2 жыл бұрын

@@Supreme-gu1jz yes I use my like television /education . Ya it's pretty much TV and that's it . Sometimes reddit is fun also .

@mebeb6399

2 жыл бұрын

If you ever find out why your felt empty, please share. I too wonder why people feel that way

As a teen, I feel like a huge part of my mental health issues stem from the American collegiate system. Kids at my school are all pushing themselves past the breaking point to get into the same 15 colleges, and those that don't get treated like they've given up on their future and are content to be unsuccessful. I don't know one classmate who hasn't struggled with depression, anxiety, an eating disorder, or adhd. Mental illness is real and a lot of it stems from our school systems.

@SieMiezekatze

2 жыл бұрын

I am from latino América, where School is free and anyone is also free to join... I feel like for me personally most issues come from bad or toxic parenting, depression, anxiety are all mental illnesses caused by cortisol which is a hormone that every creature produce, but the excess production of this hormone cause long term issues, we can overcome any problem with support and help but if we lack those is just unrealistic to think we would get better

@bri5908

2 жыл бұрын

ADHD isn’t a mental illness. People with ADHD have ADHD regardless of where they are or what they do. The only difference is level of impairment.

@pbot922

2 жыл бұрын

@@bri5908 Oh I totally see your point! I'm sorry for not grouping them in separate categories-- you're completely right that ADHD is a mental disorder, and not an illness. I only mention it because it is one of the mental things I see a lot of kids around me struggling with despite there being proven ways of helping the symptoms ease.

@joenewmeyer8358

2 жыл бұрын

Did your dad take you hunting and fishing?

@irreplacable1988

2 жыл бұрын

What is depressing about America’s easy school system? No I think it’s something more going on…lol.

everybody blames "too much time on social media", but nobody realizes that because of social distancing we are driven to social media more than ever before to satisfy our social needs.

@joenewmeyer8358

2 жыл бұрын

Democrats did that on purpose. They were told not to do it. Now they say it hurt the young ones (you) because of no school. It will be just fine. Don't know exactly what the Democrats are up to, but I think it's the globalization bull they talk about. Inflation was done on purpose along with evil stuff. Go the best you can and try? Try to have fun. Good luck

@saharahowell6486

2 жыл бұрын

Well it’s better than everyone dying from the pandemic sooo

@octopus4925

2 жыл бұрын

@@saharahowell6486 there's space for multiple perspectives. For some people this ruined their childhood, and they're allowed to be upset about that.

@sneedandfeed

Жыл бұрын

@@saharahowell6486 now they die by their own hands....... Genius!!!

@wolfsisterhowls

Жыл бұрын

This issue didn't start during the pandemic though. So blaming social distancing for something that's been getting researched for decades (during the rise of...you got it...social media!) is simply recency bias.

The transition into college is notorious for bringing out underlying, untreated mental illness. I had an experience much like Justin's in freshman year of college. It is a time where you are supposed to feel and be independent, so it makes it that much harder to seek help from people you just moved away from...stigma on top of isolation is a recipe for disaster

@litojonny

2 жыл бұрын

yeah my friend went to UPenn around 2012 and around that time UPenn had several suicides

@MathildeG

2 жыл бұрын

My freshman year of college triggered my generalized anxiety. I had chronic insomnia and failed a class because I couldn't get out of bed to attend it. This video was extremely triggering to watch because it brought back some of those feelings. But it is a very important watch.

@johnindigo5477

2 жыл бұрын

@@MathildeG same. I was always nervous and had panic attacks but assumed it was because this was during covid. Then freshman year of college I had this constant state of anxiety and when I finally forced myself to see a counselor I learned I actually did have symptoms of anxiety disorder.

@MathildeG

2 жыл бұрын

@@johnindigo5477 I’m glad you got help :)

@CircumcisionIsChildAbuse

2 жыл бұрын

@@MathildeG i agree, getting help is important. So why did she need help at such a late age? Why wasn't she helped earlier. Why did she develop an anxiety disorder in the first place? These health issues dont just pop into existence at puberty, puberty acts as a destabilized exposure to the world in which you're no longer the king. When you graduate university, you feel great! For a day. Then what? You work at Starbucks for 5 years. People who are improperly prepared for lifes difficulties, stem from failure of their environments to create stable coping strategies and understanding of the rules and paths to take.

I'm so glad I grew up pre-internet. I don't think I would have survived adolescence in this era. I applaud the minds that navigate growing up in this time.

@briganja

2 жыл бұрын

I’m a millennial and I loved the internet in my adolescence, it was like a giant creative and collaborative space where people were creating lots of art and a unique culture. I mean I’m sure there were dark corners, but I think once it became monetized and they created data-harvesting and applied analytics to it without real regulation compounded with a smart device people carry with them at all times so they’re never disconnected is when it all took a turn for the worse. When I was a teen we used MySpace and it was nothing like Facebook - there wasn’t a “feed” that was shoving information in your face, you had to navigate to someone’s page to see their content. I remember mainly spending time admiring other peoples pages and changing my own (skins, songs, are you going to have s visitor’s cursor be a little panda or a firework? Extra points for a gif like a little ninja hopping around) and people would post poetry and stuff like that, you couldn’t spend as much time on it as modern social media because there wasn’t the same volume of information and you had to consciously navigate it versus the more passive act of just clicking on something they choose to display to you based on your user analytics. I think there’s still a lot of potential and amazing things to be found in the internet, there just needs to be regulations because right now it feels like a corporate free for all, and their goals will always revolve around money rather than human connection and betterment.

@orueom7720

2 жыл бұрын

Its...really not that hard. Just stay away from social media and spend time in the real world actually doing stuff. Play sports, volunteer, take part in theatre.

@tamago8042

2 жыл бұрын

@Orue OM it’s not as easy as you may think. Once you are connected with everyone and everything, it’s extremely difficult to disconnect and take a step back. I personally would love to not spend hours on the internet, whether it be for work or entertainment everyday, but it’s just like an addiction. It also doesn’t help that for most teens, especially in America, its near impossible to get around yourself without a car, which makes it hard to do things outside of the house.

@grmpEqweer

2 жыл бұрын

@@tamago8042 It is an addiction. Similar to a gambling addiction. My *suggestion* is, figure out what boundaries and structure you'd like to put around your internet use, what healthy behaviors you'd like to do instead of be online, and ***work on*** enacting those over a couple of months. Edit: expect to backslide, because that's how addictions work. Just pick up the next day and keep working on discipline. There's going to be a few things you absolutely want to be online for, but, what is... maybe not so rewarding? If you only have a set number of hours? What I notice, when I force myself offline, is a flood of random thoughts and feelings. Your mileage may vary. Best wishes.

@tamago8042

2 жыл бұрын

​@@grmpEqweer You're right, Its not just like an addiction, it literally is one. Thank you for the advice though, the backslide part is definitely the hardest to overcome for me, and its nice to hear that this part of getting over it is something I can overcome (usually I would give up and try again later at that point).

Cutting contact with toxic and empty people, using social media only to follow things you really love, eating fresh foods, 15 minutes daily sunlight, and sleeping in total darkness are helping me to cope depression.

@PHlophe

2 жыл бұрын

Sleeping without radio is also good. when i got into a new relationship , i was so used to TV before sleep that it took me a minute to quit. 11 years later i don't regret cutting all the noise.

@nirvana328

2 жыл бұрын

exercising and cleaning up my diet really helped me

@CircumcisionIsChildAbuse

2 жыл бұрын

Who are you talking to about your depression? Coping strategies are great, but if you're not addressing the underlying cause of your depression it's like putting a bandage on a broken leg and trying to walk it off or putting a bandaid on a large laceration. If you need someone to talk to, let me know and ill be more than happy to listen, or I can help orientate you towards some recommended health experts based on your specific struggles, they're all free, they stream on twitch and upload to KZread. Also some use reddit. They're awesome, they're receiving quite a lot of rewards for their work bringing mental health to so many people. Plus I also have personal knowledge on depression, so I can definitely relate if you need someone to talk to. Let me know. if not good luck. 🙂

@OrionOlamPiksie

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you

@thomasnc

2 жыл бұрын

I'm glad those things are helping you cope but 15 minutes of sunlight is nowhere near enough, I recommend you work towards bumping up that number.

my father didn't buy me a phone until I turned 18, hated my life for a while because of that, but as I grow I get more and more and eternally grateful for him.

@redradcomrade

2 жыл бұрын

girl u lucky

@em1l144

2 жыл бұрын

@@redradcomrade iam

@rakata1987

2 жыл бұрын

Lucky though honestly I think I would still be miserable becuz my parents are terribly homophobic to me. But social media somehow made everything worse

@em1l144

2 жыл бұрын

@@rakata1987 i mean anything can make u miserable these days, parents, society, social media. Our generation has just to go thru everything to get to nothing whereas the previous generations were more healthy living so...yeah. sending my support to u, keep strong 🧚‍♀️💗

@loturzelrestaurant

2 жыл бұрын

@@em1l144 Will you have your Future stolen from you? I dont know if you know that but where the Problems lie are very easy to track. Which political group is more often anti-human-rights and emantes LGBT+-Hate and Science-Denial in huge Waves is kinda real-easy to track-down. KZreadrs like ‚Some More News’ and ‚Adam Something’ have covered it much. And Hbomberguys Vaccine-Video may be his most-legendary One but i think the most important for Young People to watch is the One about Climate Change, which isnt only motivating (especially the end-speech) but extremly telling about WHO to trust in this Age-of-Fakenews.

A big reason for rising depression is rising academic expectation. Myself and many others would stay awake for hours, sometimes into the early hours of the morning, doing homework and studying. My 9th grade honors biology textbook was titled as a college textbook. This huge pressure to do well academically, and the exponentially fast increase of that pressure, no doubt contributes to depression.

@joenewmeyer8358

2 жыл бұрын

Our school system has gone downhill. The last 20 years is producing teachers with zero common sense or reasoning abilities. For now, we still produce the best engineers, scientists and so on. They have been saying that as long as I can remember. We still produce the best. However, with that being said, I don't know for much longer. Our school system has really gotten bad. Just teach and leave their opinions to themselves would help for now. This does need fixed and the Democrats created this mess that the schools are in along with the economy that they destroyed.

@nadaso8819

Жыл бұрын

This feels like the one for me. Honestly I never participated in social media much I only really used discord with people I knew in person, and watched the engineering side of KZread, but going from highschool to college during 2020 and being expected to be capable of absurd levels of productivity destroyed me. I’ve always had suicidal thoughts when I get overwhelmed. Which was usually around the end of each semester. But for the past two years it’s been pretty constant. My grade points went from high honors to barely passing. Basically many days it feels like my options are to continue fighting and failing at getting myself a life worth living or to just give up. The latter feels better than leaching off my loved ones for all time.

I'm a young adult in college. I fee so numb, day in and day out. I have no one. I've never had friends. It was especially painful in high school. Now that I've graduated, I feel like I've missed out on so much. I'd be lying if I said I didn't think of suicide at least once a day. My life is a nightmare, and adulthood will only become more difficult.

@alicechase9290

2 жыл бұрын

Me to you, I don't have anyone either, I'm in college, we go from and to, in these big boxes called cars moving in from places to places and never having time to interact with people, I never attended high school in the US, so I don't have any friends here, I'm attending College but there's only 3 classes this semester and two of them are online, you show up to class, say your words, listen in class, then it's bye👋, I'm getting so lonely tbh, I want a friend to vibe with and someone to apply to the same job as I, and help each other out, and not have them all be internet friends, this is not an ideal way to live, when you're like not having the right time and place to build rapport with people, they don't even want to speak, or interact with you, I'm so lonely

@alicechase9290

2 жыл бұрын

I never thought it would be like this, it could be fun if it was for a few months, the quarantine for the pandemic, lasted a few months, but now I'm craving human interaction, this is so much worse, I never thought I'd want human interactions 😢

@btrdangerdan2010

2 жыл бұрын

I'm with you there John, I feel I missed out on a "normal" child hood and adolescent lifestyle too. I always had trouble making friends and was always the weird kid being ridiculed and bullied in school. I was the outlier in the school. My life has somewhat "normal" now, I go to school and work , do errands, work on my car when I can, etc. But I'm still missing out and lacking the human connection with college peers my age or younger. It not just you feeling this we all experience the same things but maybe a little bit differently.

@rohlay00

2 жыл бұрын

Check out buddhism and discover your buddha nature. You will be surprised how precious this human life is. Spiritual practice can be applied at every moment of life. We learn to transform our mind, transform our circumstance. Reality becomes a blessing and an opportunity. I recommend "Tibetan Book of living and dying" by Sogyal Rinpoche. Also, check on YT Mingyur Rinpoche, he is a legend. I wish you all the best.

@Trisuku

2 жыл бұрын

I'm in freshman year and that's exactly my case. No friends from highschool nor in college. I am lonely

I have several issues with this video, one of them is how they don’t talk about academic school pressure and the lack of care or empathy in the school system. I almost failed high school, it was a rough time.

@Internet_user777

2 жыл бұрын

I agree in a way. I feel there is a lost sense of community and people just being more caring about their neighbors and fellow humans

@KityKatKiller

Жыл бұрын

Yeah. This crisis has so many facets. The blonde woman that was interviewed actually brought up another factor that was not picked up. It feels like growing up "in a world that's ending" Climate change, the biodiversity crisis, police brutality, etc. There are huge crisis the world is facing. And when you bring this up to adults, you get treated like the child who doesn't know better, even though you only bring up scientific consensus. The feelings of utter neglect and disrespect that comes from this coupled with the feelings of existential dread and helplessness that come from the crisis is hard enough for a healthy mind to deal with.

@stalkerwithapinkhat2788

Жыл бұрын

It’s just another thing talking about how social media and devices are the problems

I've had severe depression and anxiety since I was 12 and for a long time I had no one to talk to. Now ten years later I feel like I've only got better out of college. It's taken months to just process all of it. It's crazy how normal it is in my generation for everyone to be depressed. You're not alone, but services at colleges are completely understaffed. One of the worst things that depression has done for me is deleted or warped all my happy memories.

@TheKidJake

2 жыл бұрын

my memory in general was decimated

@BlueEyedVibeChecker

2 жыл бұрын

I got lucky, I lost most of my collective memories, so while I can only recall, exactly 24 memories, only 16 are bad, the rest are neutral or good, so 1/3 of them are still good. The only downside is that my ability to make and store new memories also got nerfed, I remember no more than 1/4 of the new memories I make, or so my psychologist and those around me tell me.

@Gabriel2005Gaming

2 жыл бұрын

i can really relate to that last sentence. I've been depressed since i was in the single digits.

@MastaGambit

2 жыл бұрын

I'm willing to bet that the real cause of your depression was just the restrictive and unforgiving environment of public school as a minor

The final interview was telling. She said she was 18 before someone told her "you need more than meds" and "you can get through this and have a full, happy life". All of the 'help' she had gotten and NO ONE had given her any help other than pharmaceuticals? Yikes.

@mamadragonful

Жыл бұрын

@@kine97 Meds can be helpful, but most of them haven't been tested on children and teens. It's off label use. We really have no idea how these interact with a prepubescent or pubescent brain. For that reason, meds should be the LAST strategy to try, and be VERY carefully monitored. Usually that's not the way it goes. ☹️

I am 21 years old now. When I went to college at 18, I felt so lonely at every party I went to, yet I would post videos on Snapchat and photos of me with "friends" to show I was having fun. I hated my first semester, but when my high school friends asked me how college was they then added about how much fun it looked like I was having. I was so scared to admit that I was not OK, and eventually shut down second semester and ended up dropping out. COVID happened immediately after I dropped out, and I have been diagnosed with BPD, anxiety and depression since then. I feel like the biggest failure for falling apart and causing my family to feel distraught and bewildered. I feel like I am in a cycle I can't get out of. I have been to the psych hospital 10 times since leaving school, I have had six jobs and have been fired from everyone due to panic attacks, and I have not made any progress. I have lost three years of my life, and I am broken and ruined. I appreciate this video saying that social media isn't the only cause of the mental health crisis, as other factors were a part of my decline. I currently don't have any faith that things will get better for both me and my generation, along with generations to come, but I hope policies or awareness becomes much more acceptable to talk about.

@CircumcisionIsChildAbuse

2 жыл бұрын

So where was your family...? Where were your role models? Who guided you through those difficult times? Sounds like you did it alone, like so many teens. I did it alone too. People want to blame something, but the place to blame is the people who were supposed to prepare you for the world. I'm not saying hate your parents, I'm saying acknowledge their failures so you dont make the same mistakes. So many teens suffering from mental illness come from dysfunctional families! This documentary ignores that completely. How mentally healthy would you think someone could he if they were raised by a narcissist or neglectful, absent parent? This documentary is so short sighted.

@dtl2081

2 жыл бұрын

Madeleine a lot of people here are hearing you and may, as myself, want to express something that may help you. Please know you are heard and have stirred empathy in our hearts and best thoughts, wishes, prayers for your continued path towards health. Team up with your good family members and your doctors. A close young female family member closely resembles your diagnoses and after terribly hard times is coming back to full health. There is great hope and there is a path for you back to health.

@grmpEqweer

2 жыл бұрын

Nobody posts photos of themselves looking depressed at a party...at a scenic location...in a selfie. ... Hehe. Maybe I should start an account called "depressed person selfies," and publish everyone's photos looking glum. To raise mental health awareness! 😆

@sinatrabone

2 жыл бұрын

Hey, thanks for your vulnerability. While I won’t pretend to know exactly what you’ve experienced, I feel like I can relate to the hopelessness and the feeling of failure and shame you’ve mentioned. I have been there, and very recently. It sounds cheesy and old-timey, maybe, but just hang in there. Talk to someone whenever it gets bad. I’ve found healing in the past year or two through some therapy and just slowly learning to accept my experience for what it’s been. Above all, It’s taken time. It’s been a process, but I feel genuine hope for the future now, even if it’s different than the hope I had before. Good luck with your process. I some something in these words from a total stranger can be helpful to you.

@dtl2081

2 жыл бұрын

@@sinatrabone beautiful

P.S. …..YOU ARE NOT LAZY, you are overwhelmed. Say it to yourself, “I’m not lazy. I’m dealing with a world that my parents could not have predicted I’d be born into. I am not lazy. I am overwhelmed. Humans were not meant to live like this, yet we do. I am not lazy, I am OVERWHELMED, and I CAN AND I WILL MAKE IT THROUGH.” say it to yourself as many times as you need to. It helped me.

Teens are in a crisis because this is often the boiling point of children that were in crisis. The modern world looks for the pleasures of the body, promiscuity, money, fame etc. In adolescence these things are the things they most desire. Those who cannot talk to their parents about the emotional vacancies of modern life and the soullessness of it become susceptible to this stimulation. (which is most, the internal world has been all but completely neglected). We have no damned meaning to anything, and this makes life vacuous. Empty, and bleak. We need art! We need culture so we can understand how we feel together and hopefully then why!

@jusletursoulglobaby

2 жыл бұрын

america doesn't have culture tho... so does that mean american youths are doomed? and school budgets are slashed so art is secondary

@tylermacdonald8924

2 жыл бұрын

@@jusletursoulglobaby You are only further illustrating my point.

@joenewmeyer8358

2 жыл бұрын

And now our children and grandchildren can look forward to paying off this massive pork spending bill the Democrats passed. Nothing but work and taxes to look forward too. No life future the liberals and their way of thinking is leaving for them! Democrats and their philosophy is no hope for their future. Work and tax them to death with not much money for fun things. Way to go socialist Democrats!

@joenewmeyer8358

2 жыл бұрын

@@jusletursoulglobaby socialist teachers and their opinions don't help either! Trillions spent on pork that they have to pay for! Not a good outlook for our kids with that way of thinking

@asscretin3158

2 жыл бұрын

@@jusletursoulglobaby America has a culture that is mostly founded on ideas and behaviors that we grow up with. The fact arts are slashed in favor of subjects that make it so kids will wanna grow up doing certain kinds of jobs is apart of American culture. Cultures will always cultivate whenever there is a society or social hierarchy like the pursuit of fame for example.

17 year old male here, I am gonna leave this little comment here for the 5-10 ppl who will see it. Delete most of your social media. It helps you a lot with your self confidence your own beauty and health. I tell you this ppl are on tiktok, snapchat, insta and all these apps are usually lonely, depressed, sad. Bec you are always comparing yourself to others. "He looks so good", "she is so pretty, I wish I could be like her." I am telling you it eats at you. except for discord, and snapchat (which I have bec my 12th grade class communicates on there) I deleted everything. Waking up and being able to look myself in the face helps a lot. Not feeling like less or not beautiful and all that is way better than the dopamine hit you will get. I have my own problems but I don't have nearly as many as my friends who are addicted to this stuff.

@thecolorjune

2 жыл бұрын

Same. I only have Instagram for group chats. No Tik Tok, snap chat, Twitter, or anything else. I do still spend too much time on my phone though, especially since all of my friends are too stressed or depressed to hang out :((

@Ali-fx6jd

2 жыл бұрын

@@thecolorjune heh sprry to hear that dude. I hope your friends hangout with you soon

@bingchilling4573

2 жыл бұрын

I did the same thing as you and I can confirm that it is effective.

@kelislim1465

2 жыл бұрын

I am also 17 this year and I feel that one of the only things that keeps me sane is my friends' company. So my advice to everyone is to make good friends so that you will have someone to talk to when you need it. Also try to spend more time with your family/friends and avoid using too much social media.

I feel like the more self aware we become the more we’re seeing how this system sucks. We need a reset.

Ok… I’m 41 and still have a voice in my head that tells me all the stuff I’m doing wrong. Like leaving this comment.

@briganja

2 жыл бұрын

I think your comment is really valuable! Working on mental health is a lifelong endeavor, it’s worth reiterating.

@selkoa8384

2 жыл бұрын

Listen to music, go for a walk . Hug your family.

I’m 50 and growing up, I was never depressed until my late 20s. I was happy as a kid, as a teen and as a college student despite none of it being easy. I started working part time much earlier than my peers and mostly grew up living below the poverty line. I came home to an empty home after school for the first 2-3 hours from age 11 onward. That would be considered child neglect now, but I loved it. I was able to watch the cartoons and shows I wanted and play music as loud as I wanted before my parents and my older siblings got home from work. None of my friends or anyone I knew in my elementary, middle or high school self-harmed themselves let alone suicide. We were for the most part happy kids and young people that occasionally got in mild trouble, but that was about it. I believe a major contributor to this was that I saw at least one of my friends almost everyday after school and on most weekends. In addition we were allowed to be kids without constant adult supervision. Helicopter parenting doesn’t allow children to become self-reliant. Social isolation simply leads to depression. We definitely need better studies on why puberty is starting earlier, why testosterone levels in males have been decreasing, and why people born in the United States have been getting shorter starting since 1983. Younger people today are not only mentally but also physically less healthy than previous generations. EDIT: I just want to add that being young and depressed, anxious or suicidal at clinical levels is not normal and was not common until the last 2 decades. It was very rare in the 80s and before. We need to look at the root causes and prevent it in the first place rather than mostly focus on (profitable) treatments.

@boinkadoinkk

2 жыл бұрын

Exactly. Self harm in the 90s was not common at all. Now most of my female friends (we’re all in our early 20s) currently struggle with self harm or have in the past. I saw a report that said there was over a 300% rise in ER visits for adolescent self harm from august 2019 to August 2020. That’s terrifying.

@AmatGotchi

Жыл бұрын

This makes so much sense. As a kid who grew up very isolated, I don't think I experienced a sense of belonging until I joined the Army at 18. And true happiness, only in the past year since I turned 24, when I finally learned to love myself and pursue friendships and hobbies. I spent my entire childhood devoted solely to school, it was the only thing I was really good at. I had no freedom of movement living in a rural area, my parents were caring and did their best. In high school I was obsessed with academic success above all else, and I was miserable the entire time. Our high school averaged 1 or 2 suicides per year at the time, although I'm sure it has increased since then. My number 1 regret is that I didn't understand friendship as a kid, and always felt like a burden to the people around me. It genuinely made me want to not exist. Unfortunately it seems that my experience is getting more common today. I hope more kids can have a childhood like yours. I think it would benefit them.

@ownedbymykitty270

Жыл бұрын

@@AmatGotchi From 1st grade to 12th grade I only heard of one death among students in my schools the entire 12 years and that was due to an accident. There was not a single incident of suicide. I grew up in a working class suburb in the 80s but since then, it has transformed into an expensive Silicon Valley commuter suburb. The high school I went to is now a competitive, high pressure place.

I'm in my 30s now. I had multiple experiences with suicidal ideation and attempts as a teenager in the 2000s... I can't even imagine what it would be like to experience the things I experienced, in today's world. I don't know if I would have survived.

@saritalil9116

2 жыл бұрын

Same

@tyasasongko

2 жыл бұрын

My sentiments exactly.

@waynechristopher6214

2 жыл бұрын

How are you today?

We need to teach kids about mental health and provide mental health services in school!

@Candycloud_19

2 жыл бұрын

Agreed

@AvgJane19

2 жыл бұрын

The need more free time, community centers, and more options for their life paths that aren't college. Mental health seminars are a bandaid in a bullet wound.

@jusletursoulglobaby

2 жыл бұрын

that requires money. do you plan on voting for a candidate that platforms an increased educational budget?

@gorblin70

2 жыл бұрын

The whole school system needs to be centered around developing healthy minds, not have a disgustingly sick system and stick a counselor and a seminar in there.

@joenewmeyer8358

2 жыл бұрын

Not the schools. The school system sucks anymore. Can't let the schools brainwash the kids any more. School system is a major part of the problems

Another factor that would be interesting to look at is how social media is designed to be addictive.

Watching everyone's happy, joyful and full-filling lives everyday (on Insta, Linkedin, FB) makes me miserable even now that I am in my late 20s. Sometimes I even think that "I shouldn't exist or shouldn't have existed. So that I wouldn't have to go through this 'life'." When I try to pin point reasons behind these kind of thoughts, I am unable to find anything substantial. Can any Psychologist or mental health expert help me? I have limited my social media exposure upto an extent and is sleeping before midnight.

@Ivanselectsongs

2 жыл бұрын

this helped me: stop thinking an answer lies outside of yourself. notice which of your behaviors makes you dislike yourself, perhaps even leave you disgusted. then notice which makes you stronger/calmer. find a balance for your vices (e.g. alcohol, pornography, drugs, junk food, mindless social media scrolling) and move forward.

@lemari1574

2 жыл бұрын

I am having the same struggle. I also don't see a reason as to why exist. I hope it gets better for you

@dhirendrakumar276

2 жыл бұрын

Dear whoever you are, Watch greatest cinema that exists, read greatest books that exists, watch/read/see greatest of things that interests you. Listen to the best music our there. Please find something to latch on..art, literature, drawing.. whatever. Finding a refuse will help. I met with a car accident recently. When I was dragging myself out of the car with one hand while clinching my left rib cage with second hand, after few meters it felt like THE END. But I survived. Just got home day before yesterday from hospital. Find something man/bro/miss... I am trying too.

@2cHTCp0120

2 жыл бұрын

be highly conscious and highly aggressive .

@Kaybye555

2 жыл бұрын

Watch Dr K on KZread. He has been of great help my journey. I'm feeling much better

No one wants to talk to mental health. As a teen in the late 00s/early 2010s, I suffered depression, anxiety, and PTSD because of my parent's mental illness. All I could do is hide it and "push" because the adults in my life laughed at me for feeling depressed: "What is there to be depressed about? You're a kid!" My own guidance counselor laughed me out of her office and blamed me for feeling bad. This country does not care about mental health until someone dies, then it's all thoughts and prayers then back to the status quo.

I think that protection of teens has gone too far, my parents are so strict on me going out and so on (I think this is fairly common) due to the dangers of crime and so on (which aren’t even a problem in my area) - I think if parents let us do what we wanted more then we would go out more and be way more healthy

@starchannel123

2 жыл бұрын

This is so true. Teens aren’t little kids and should be given a few more freedoms. Life is so stressful when you are forced to live out a life someone else wants for you.

@EnergizingBane

2 жыл бұрын

Might be true for some but there are those like me who didn’t have strict parent(s) yet still feeling similarly as described in the video.

@wondertyzipp8260

2 жыл бұрын

There needs to be some sort of healthy balance. My friend has very strict parents who also baby him a lot meaning he has no confidence in his own abilities, any independence and cannot so basic tasks for himself like make toast of even cut some of his food properly. Whereas I have less trick parents but who are less strict a point where they aren't really engaging in my life. Like they're there but in the background, not really of much importance? Just hovering from afar not paying much attention rather than looking in my direction, behind me all the way if that makes sense? A healthy balance between giving your teen freedom/the ability to make their own mistakes and learn from it and explore their own capabilities and being able to watch over them, protect them when needed and guide them when they're in doubt or in need of your assistance is essential and should be taught to parents worldwide. Leaning towards one more than the other is always problematic.

@Caerulis

2 жыл бұрын

Omg total facts. Talking to my parents about going to a social outing is like going through the Senate. Every social occasion i have is never laid back or spontaneously made, it has to be meticulously planned with everyone being driven here and there at this extract time and place. Our parents could just bmx bike their way to their friends place and chill, now it's just too strict

@kaleyjoplinRAWRR

2 жыл бұрын

Very true. I had overprotective parents and as a result I think it caused my anxiety to worsen as I got older. I was just nervous and anxious about everything but it was because it was what was instilled in me by my parents.

Kids are smart- They know that the planet is going to become uninhabitable by the time these children are 50 years old. They know that we are doing nothing to stop it.

@andrewternet8370

2 жыл бұрын

Apocalypse of Pseudo-Commentius here

@SolidBladeSnake

2 жыл бұрын

Quit fearmongering this is what media wants and they are the cause of the entire problem and you lap it up like a good little consumer.

Part of the reason why some of our teens are in crisis is the pressure that we, as adults, are putting into them as well as the comparison we always do. We always forgot that they're living their own lives, it is for them to learn from their mistakes and to grow from it.

@joenewmeyer8358

2 жыл бұрын

Democrats and their way of thinking and lies have done this.

Make cities more livable. Transition away from car dependence, and community and independence will increase (cause kids can go outside without their parents) and things will be better.

I'm glad yall shine a light on this. Very underrated and underappreciated and very important issue

@aaronkonstantine2794

2 жыл бұрын

Ya

Not to minimize the issues surrounding teen mental health, but I'm pretty sure we are all in crisis regardless of age, especially in America where healthcare, housing, employment, etc. are always under threat and more so when every 2 years we have elections with such potentially dire consequences.

@arthurias7693

2 жыл бұрын

ok boomer

@RipVanWhinkle

2 жыл бұрын

@@arthurias7693 I’m 25 😂

@andrewfarrell6120

2 жыл бұрын

@@arthurias7693 What does that mean? Troll much?

@arthurias7693

2 жыл бұрын

@@andrewfarrell6120 At least my name isn’t Andrew 💅

@arthurias7693

2 жыл бұрын

@@Keep3r1438 im not your bro, dude

I'm only 18, and I already have two serious illnesses that can greatly spoil my life and make me disabled. Panic attacks, anxiety, sleep problems, paranoia, the constant possibility of fainting, behavior changes, headaches, seizures and a bunch of other things, all this is difficult. But I cope, I think positively, I treat this as another obstacle, and fortunately, I am able to work on some things myself. Soon I will see doctors and I will be provided with therapy and a full examination. so be strong✊

@matthewhackett3429

2 жыл бұрын

There’s a book that has culminated most of what we know about malocclusion and the fact that our species has unknowingly disregarded the art of breathing. Something we do more than anything on any given day. You take more breaths per day than you do anything else. Why not get better at what you do most?.. James Nestor is the author and the book is called Breath. Your welcome

@Yor_gamma_ix_bae

2 жыл бұрын

these self diagnosed people on twitter are the extreme examples of people abusing possibly fictional mental health issues. Most people I’ve known with diagnoses or extreme issues are so much more resilient than the rest of us. They don’t often realize it of course and people often listen to them list there issues as if it’s a problems competition. “We all got problems, don’t hear me talking about it” etc. but the fact is there is strength and bravery to be found in abundance in those who struggle the most. It’s one of the reasons our vindictive society is scary, a person with mental health issues could do very wrong things and never be forgiven for it. Or have the time to get help.

@ilaripori6148

2 жыл бұрын

Please check out wim hof method

@joenewmeyer8358

2 жыл бұрын

Go hunting and fishing. You will find good friends there. Look forward to the weekends and doing that with like minded good people. Will make a big difference for you. I promise

@joenewmeyer8358

2 жыл бұрын

@@Yor_gamma_ix_bae the socialist liberal ways they are trying to teach is the biggest issue. All we did with this trillions of pork money spent is give a no good future because those generations will now have to pay it off. Good future to think about isn't it? Nothing to show for it also. Work and tax with no money left over for fun. Way to go Democrats!

“Here’s why” This is the answer you get when you don’t actually talk to the people you think you are trying to help Maybe we wouldn’t be on social media as much if we had time to socialize around school, if we didn’t always have something to do. Want to go hang out with friends? Do you have homework you need to do? Yes, you always have more homework to do. No hanging out with friends when you have homework to do. Want to go get some exercise? When? When are you going to find time for exercise between an 8 hour long school day and another hour of homework. Want to spend time outside? It’s not safe, even though it’s no more dangerous than when our parents where kids, less actually, since we have traceable phones. What’s the point anyways? A bunch of rich old people are making the laws, they don’t care what happens to you. You’re growing up in a world that’s getting worse, and there is nothing you can do to stop it. So yeah, kids are turning to social media and games as a coping mechanism.

i dislike when people assume that it’s all social media-while true for some, i feel like that’s a scapegoat for other difficult to explain problems

@Cheptabgaa

5 ай бұрын

It's certainly not all social media, but it plays a huge huge role in the decline of mental health today ! We can't deny that fact

depressive and anxiety symptoms in youth doubled during the COVID-19 pandemic, with 25% of youth experiencing depressive symptoms and 20% experiencing anxiety symptoms.

@matthewhackett3429

2 жыл бұрын

There was a time when our species didn’t even have the luxury to self access because we were way too busy surviving. Modern luxuries have forced us to forget how unmerciful this planet can be.

@erich3206

2 жыл бұрын

I love virtual learning. It was great being at home last year.

@johnindigo5477

2 жыл бұрын

@@matthewhackett3429 which is why are bodies are so prone to panicking. Our fight or flight response was made for being in a constant state of survival.

@Candycloud_19

2 жыл бұрын

I’m the 25% sadly

As someone who spent their adolescence whose idea of social media was email and google hangouts, I can tell you that the problem is not social media. For me, it was a video game addiction that I used to fill up that empty hole in my life. Six or seven hours a day. Lots of procrastination and sleep deprivation. It was like a drug, and the more I used it, the worse my life got, and the more I retreated into it. Yeah, the addiction is bad, but you're still left with the hole. Even filling it with something positive, like work, isn't actually a good thing. Workaholism won't lead to a happy life. Sometimes you just have to sit with it, and feel bored, sad, frustrated, angry, lonely. You have to let those feelings out, and wash over you like a tide. You can't bottle them up forever running away from them, or else one day they're just going to explode. Oh, and friends are great; cherish them.

As a teen, I feel like it’s so hard to make friends with new people my age. I’m sure my social anxiety plays into it a lot, but everyone seems so closed off, just going up to someone and starting a conversation or introducing yourself seems taboo. It feels like there’s an unwritten rule at my school not to associate with people you don’t know unless you have to. I’m not sure if this is something that’s always been happening or if it’s occurring because people are more focused with social media than the world around them.

It’s amazing how the pursuit of passion and purpose can change your mindset

Where did parents go? Oh right, overworking to barely make it. Lonely children are lonely... and lost. Our own systems are breaking us.

I’m 17. I empathized with parts of each of the people featured in this. Honestly, I’m still really struggling, but the most I can do right now is to go one day at a time. I want to draw right now. Imma go put together a print right now. I want to stick to this workout plan so I get abs, more upper body strength, and be able to play my sport better. Et cetera. Stuff that’s small, but lets me bond with the people around me and develop what I really love myself. Even if it’s a small one, like “I want to study with friends at the library today.” If I just keep on setting small goals, it gives me that sense of accomplishment when I do actually do it. It’s what gets me through the day really.

@loopii6387

2 жыл бұрын

:)

As a Canadian teenager I see people latch onto any shred of hope in this system that's falling apart. It's upsetting how many people are constantly on the verge of collapsing, myself included, held up only by bare shreds of dignity.

I'm native and sacrificed my career so I could take care of my mom for 6 years with Parkinson and dementia until she died in my arms. She was on hospice and it was one of the hardest and best things I have ever done. I worked 12 hours shifts so I could have more days off and only need a caregiver 3 or 4 days. I am raising 2 daughters that love me so much and helped take care of their grandma. I stayed in an unhappy marriage because I could not do it financially by myself. My mom cleaned houses but she always took me with her. I didn't go to school much. We traveled across the country like hippies and were homeless much of the time. My mom was very violent and abusive but I know she loved me. She was put in an Indian boarding school as a child. My grandmother was schizophrenic. Very rough life. Thru all this the fact that I knew my mom loved me and even if we slept in the car I was with her. My point is it takes time to raise someone. People have to work so hard and leave their kids at daycare and school. Our elders are left in homes while we work. This society has made it impossible to live slow and natural. We are worker bees and if you don't participate you can easily become homeless and lose your children that way. Some tribes say when the adults don't have time for their children and parents that would mark the beginning of the end. Yes natives have apocalyptic prophecies too. We need each other. We were made to be families to support one another, not to be alone. Depression, addiction and mental illness runs deep I'm my family. How do we change the situation? I'm still figuring it out. Good luck everyone. Your not crazy this world is.

@nenmaster5218

2 жыл бұрын

-KZreadr Salari covered Sadness and Depression. -KZreadr Some More News has covered countless Crisis-Reasons in Detail. Work, Unions, Suicide, Food-Shortages, Police-Brutality, and the political Parties that literally drive us into H-ll, and who emanate in massive Waves; Wave after Wave; weaponized Pseudoscience and LGBT-Hate. -Let’s face the fact like Adults: We literally have LGBT-Hate rising right now, thx to the Conservatives who’s entire Deal is to ‚conserve’ primitive-Ideas and primitive-Worldviews. We may as well get rid of Science altogether when we vote for these People.

Solving the mental health crisis in the U.S. would mean overhauling the mental healthcare system, including increasing insurance reimbursements for therapists and making the reimbursement process easier and less bureaucratic. Honestly just implementing universal healthcare would make things a whole lot easier for everyone in so many ways. Solving the mental health crisis would also mean paying mental health professionals, the majority of whom are social workers, what we deserve to be paid for the incredibly important work that we do. Social work is a female dominated profession that has been devalued for far too long. I wish that more videos and articles covering the American mental health crisis would talk about the real roots of the problem. You can’t talk about the mental health crisis without talking about the devaluing of the social work profession, and the mental health professions in general.

@loverrlee

2 жыл бұрын

I completely agree! 💯

@joenewmeyer8358

2 жыл бұрын

Only so many doctors. Socialized medicine would not help. All doctors are not equal. Seen where doctors made it worse in some. Like the shrink that went after kavanagh. Scary that she's out there supposedly helping? That probably is happening. This is a tough one. Doctors can hurt more than help when it comes to mental health. A lot of bad parenting in today's world. Why? Who knows!

@bellekelly582

Жыл бұрын

We also have to change the techniques we are putting at the front lines since many are being disproven to have bad long-term results and are also too lucrative

@maggie6152

Жыл бұрын

It is a very, very, very important part of the mental health crisis parcel, but not the only reason. A lack of access to social services, bleak economic prospects, mental health stigmatization, the housing crisis, dealing with information overload, manipulative black box algorithms that push extremely damaging or upsetting content, isolation, poverty, living on the edge of world war 3, the terrifying economic power an extremely oppressive government (CCP) has over almost all the world, feeling powerless to change an increasingly extreme and corporatist government (US), gun violence (US), climate change, the pandemic. But yes, adequately funding mental health care, paying our health care and social workers what they are worth for the invaluable work they do, having an appropriate ration of staff to patients, and universal health care are HUGE.

Did anyone notice that the joyful moments shown are related to music and the arts? We need more focus on education in the arts. Art brings joy and meaning to people.

@goldendiamon

4 ай бұрын

And also reading books,doing diy crafts,dancing,cooking or doing anything that makes you happy

What a brilliant bunch of young ppl and very talented . Sorry to hear all the pain they went through and are going through. The future needs you guys. We need you to shine again.

"He who has a why , can almost bare any how" - Nietzsche

1. Car culture 2. Over individualistic nature 3. Unattainable beauty standards 4. Broken family bond . These are the reasons. It is really difficult to make friends in the USA. Friendship is also not strong

@lecursedturtle9385

2 жыл бұрын

What's wrong with Car Culture?

@grantthurtt3133

2 жыл бұрын

@@lecursedturtle9385 It means car dependent areas. In a place like Japan the public transportation is amazing, and I was able to walk or bike anywhere I needed to go, you rarely need a car unless you just want one. Now being back in a Californian suburb, I can barely go anywhere without a car and I rarely go out besides going to the grocery store and meeting my gf once a month.

@lecursedturtle9385

2 жыл бұрын

@@grantthurtt3133 Oh. I thought he meant the hobby.

@gio160

2 жыл бұрын

@@lecursedturtle9385 yeah there’s nothing wrong with the hobby. people who enjoy driving cars would benefit with less traffic from less car centric design actually

This is an excellent piece of reporting. It's a topic that needs more attention

If I ever have kids I will not ban social media completely but I will put a limit on it

Crazy, when I was a teenager I'd sleep an average of 9-13 hours a night. Crazy the difference one generation can make

@Liloi9667

2 жыл бұрын

yeah I'm a teen and I sleep around 8-12 hours and apparently this is a lot for my ages (which is crazy to think about for me)

@werrutkyupnext

2 жыл бұрын

I'm a teen and I sleep 7-10 hours is that good?

@natedogg890

2 жыл бұрын

@@werrutkyupnext Im not a sleep doctor haha, but if you feel well rested then it's best to listen to your body! Teenage me would roll his eyes at this, but being able to sleep well and reliably is like a superpower these days

@antigonemerlin

Жыл бұрын

When I was a teen, I slept so little that I stopped dreaming for my senior year. Literally. My sleep was as black as a moonless night. That was not healthy.

Social Media, 9/11 and the events afterwards including polarization of Americans most definitely plays a part on it all. Our ancestors would be ashamed what’s slowly happening in this country, may god save us all.

@briganja

2 жыл бұрын

I mean, previous generations were hanging “witches,” actively pursuing genocide against First Nations peoples, denying women the right to vote and queers the right to marry, fighting an actual civil war over keeping slavery and continuing to lynch POC well into the 20th century... I think we’re doing a lot better in the shameful-activity department than our ancestors’ America and they would be in too much culture shock to really judge anyway.

@Rob_479

2 жыл бұрын

Yup your ancestors wanted a system of segregation and discrimination. If your ancestors today saw that people of these once discriminated groups now have a sliver of a chance of success in this country, they would indeed be very disappointed. Perhaps this is why so many of a particular group are now depressed. They would love to return to a system that upholds their power and values them simply for existing. If we returned to the previous system I have no doubt many of your people would be happy again, and your forefathers would feel immense pride

I raised 2 children in the Internet and Smartphone age. My children were free to express their feelings and emotions. My son could not play his video games except during breaks at school. I refused to pay for cable television. They could not have cell phones until they had jobs to help pay the bills. This gave them time to participate in extracurricular sports and activities. We traveled and spent time as a family. I set the tone and expectations in my home because I wanted my kids to have a childhood. I feel really bad for these young people because I wondering where were their parents during all of this? Did the parents just let social media, television and video games raise their children?

@SpinningSideKick9000

2 жыл бұрын

They were working 3 jobs to barely put food on the table

@elleshaw9837

2 жыл бұрын

@@SpinningSideKick9000 I worked 2 jobs. Sometimes I worked and went to school. You do what you have to for your kids.

when you have NO meaningful human interaction for the past 2+ years I feel su*cidal and I'm 25 I can't imagine what the younger ppl are going through 😰😰

@SolidBladeSnake

2 жыл бұрын

The only reason you stopped having these interactions is because organizations like the NYT fearmongered you in to doing just that. They are 100% part of the problem and are selling you snake oil to fix what they themselves caused.

As a person born in the 80s, I gotta say... I do not envy kids these days having access to all the technologies. A smart phone free childhood and adolescence is something that I'm grateful for eternally.

This is what inspired me to get into Energy Healing and start my channel. I remember feeling depressed for the first time in the 7th grade.

As an educator, the hardest part about the pandemic was seeing schools closed. Teacher unions wanted schools closed. It was the most awful mistake of our history and they will never admit to it. I know many students that died by suicide. We should have been there for them to detect early signs. We failed them by closing their community hubs, classrooms, clubs, recreational centres, libraries, wellness centres, group therapy sessions, tutoring sites, camps, summer programs, meeting in person, suspending field trips… I am so so sorry to lost generation… I tried I really tried to fight for the reopening of schools and community centres. -San Franciscan Mission Educator

@PHlophe

2 жыл бұрын

Edu, i don't know that with our busy schedules we are equipped enough to detect early signs of possible suicide. I've only ever met one person in my life whom i got the feeling he looked peaceful like someone that is ready to go. in hindsight i saw it for what it is but in real time , 99% of people are not alarmed enough to pick up on it. all those things you mentioned for the mental wellbeing , 90% of that goes straight to Gringos and there is zero left for people of color. it is nice but it comes with a heavy racist and classist baggage.

@sew_gal7340

2 жыл бұрын

teachers are part of the problem these days, no good quality ones.

@whyisgamora4191

2 жыл бұрын

It's not the fault of teachers, you can't blame yourself though I admire your passion. Teachers aren't supposed to be therapists & they're not equipped nor have the time to be one. A full system rehaul is needed in mental health care & schooling. Politicians failed the youth by closing schools & now society (and the kids) are gonna pay for it. There's a HUGE learning deficit which will mean even lower chances at socioeconomic climbing for those who are unprivileged in the first place which just leads to a vicious cycle.. It's very sad

*Everyone who reads this, we don't know each other and probably never will but I wish you all the best in life and all the luck in the world* 🗣️🗣️👈

i am 17, i got rid of all social media (instagram, tiktok, snapchat, twitter) a year ago & i've felt so much more present

@Candycloud_19

2 жыл бұрын

I’m trying to do the same but it’s so hard. Any tips ?

@siddharthsingh3460

2 жыл бұрын

@@Candycloud_19 replace them social medias with gym, workout sessoins, talk to your mom or bestie when bored , get board games like chess or carrom or listen to uplifting music or think of you carrier. if you don't have a bestie or a bf then get one ,get to know people . doing such will decrease your dopamine insensitivity. get the life you used to be jealous of seeing with other people.

@majortom4711

2 жыл бұрын

All I really want is a dumb phone, to be able to arrange things with friends in real life and nothing else. I haven't felt real in 4 years. I am only now recovering my sense of self

@Cheptabgaa

5 ай бұрын

Good for you!!

@goldendiamon

4 ай бұрын

​@@Candycloud_19Surf the cravings...Only think them but believe in yourself that even if your mind always thinks of them,choose to not do it just like detoxing from unhealthy foods and replace it with hobbies you love to do, exercise

Thank you for sharing your stories. SOLIDARITY from across the globe.

My god...Such quality content on youtube is unimaginable.

Political strife, the sense of doom that climate change presents, social isolation, media inundation, pressure to succeed, comparison. These all contribute, and they make adults into nervous wrecks too. It's a jungle out there, and kids have to figure it out without a whole lot of guidance.

So sad. Social media has been masking these issues far too long.

@user-jk2zm7uq5s

2 жыл бұрын

Wouldn't it rather be "Social media has been *exacerbating* these issues far too long"?

@azula3906

2 жыл бұрын

You could also say 'social media has been revealing these issues for too long'. It all depends on which accounts you follow. I wish people would stop assuming everybody just shows the happy sides of their lives on social media.

@Nora-ze3wv

2 жыл бұрын

Oh how I wish my parents didn’t listen to me when I said I want a phone.

Fantastic reporting.

The budget for mental health services for adolescents is being cut again and again. Do you know where is the closest retreat for teens in your area? Ask around and you will find many of these retreats are closing. And that is just the first response, short or long term treatment facilities has long, long waiting lists. Its exasperating!

Just growing, developing, learning and maturing from child to adult is an emotional rollercoaster. Instead of parents giving their kids the space and mental freedom to go through this rite of passage, the immature, selfish adults in their life and educational world also load them with not just their own problems too but problems of the entire world. They place this load on their still developing minds and the result is emotional choas. Instead of teaching them about emotional resilience, parents, teachers and society enforce the notion that all emotions, other than happiness, is not normal. Every emotion must be explored, discussed and widely shared.

@orueom7720

2 жыл бұрын

Boo hoo. Billions of people went through adolescence without needing to be spoonfed and hand-held 24/7

@BlueEyedVibeChecker

2 жыл бұрын

@Melon Sauce Not all of us will/do. I was a punching bag physically and metaphorically since my 2nd year of school(in general, not just high or primary school) Even today I can't escape it and I'm almost 23. But I for one, and many others like me are using the way we were treated as an example of what NOT to do to others. (This isn't justifying it by any means, unfortunately, those of us who didn't manage to overcome it, or fake it 'til we make it, end up joining the people who did these things to us) Trust me when I say I agree with your stance(of not condoning it) but your take on the matter isn't fair to those of us who aren't like that.

@josiecamilo7098

2 жыл бұрын

Exactly learning to cope with life should be part of health education if that even exists anymore. The education system should be changed to help kids with life skills instead of the stupid topics they want to incorporate lately. Personal life skills to prepare for a healthy adulthood.

None of my friends are… okay, you know? Like we’re all messed up one way or another, some more then others, we’ve all considered or tried to end our lives, two of them succeeded, and were not even “the outcasts” were the popular people at school

@antigonemerlin

Жыл бұрын

I think the first time we had a mental health day, I remember there was an activity where we exchanged anonymous notes, only I accidentally kept track of the one given to me. The prompt was how do you cope with stress. On the note, I read, "scream into a pillow." and I saw the girl who had written it smiling on the other corner. Like, I didn't even realize that, I thought these people had it all figured out but no, a lot of people are coping.

The comments offer more than the video does. Causes and solutions. Thank you guys!

I went through this as a teen I just didn’t want to be an adult. Thank God I found meaning and purpose in Christ.

I feel like I grew earlier than I should 😭 and it feels like there's no one I can rely on, i have bigger age difference than my older siblings so I feel like everyone is having their own lives while I stay here watching them and I can't do anything else and also the world is in a crisis. Knowing the truths of the doom is making me feel hopeless but when there's hope, I'm uncertain

@spicey-nugg6038

2 жыл бұрын

Felt this

@spaceaster

2 жыл бұрын

Man i relate to this

@donnellclifton1817

Жыл бұрын

My daughter told me this when covid hit she has grown up to fast im sorry you feel this way too I wish there was something to say to make it better I guess just know many other feels the same that ur not alone

I grew up along with the smartphone trend and getting a smartphone in my early teens. And yes I have depression and anxiety. I don't blame it all on the smartphone and social medias bcs for me it was due to bullying first. However, I do notice a huge change. People are always comparing themselves and thinking that other people had it better than them since even before smartphones exists. But there's no way to physically see or check in everyday how other people are actually doing even if we thought others are having a better life. So, the impact isn't as severe as it is right now. It all started with posting pictures on Facebook and Instagram. To sharing stories of our daily lives every hour and everyday. And of course, most people will share the highlights not the bad experiences. The ability to see and check in on other people's life everyday makes us feels worse when we're down, isn't doing something productive, not having fun/vacation or even better achievement. In the old days, people gather and talk about life updates. Listening and seeing makes huge differences. Now we know what people have for breakfast, lunch and dinner.

My depression was different... I'm almost 30 and just started to live. I got many health issues and eating disorder. There was no one there for me. I started having problems with learning - the last thing I thought I would never loose. Got me depressed more. I failed myself, my ambitions. Ofc, I got suicidal thoughts, every day, constantly. These days depression is more associated with... Phones. Those standards someone presents. The fact people stay on the Internet rather than meeting. To be honest, the only remedy is to delete accounts on IG, FB, etc. It might be harsh, but it helps. I don't have both and I feel I'm free. 🙂

Quick reminder that it's also ok to get better and not become a hot singer songwriter, artist or businessman. The best thing you can become is yourself, so stop listening to this voice 😉🖤

I deleted my social media because seeing other peoples lives made me feel bad about my own. What gets me is the overwhelming feeling of loneliness. Knowing the people that love me only do so out of obligation and I dont REALLY have anyone who will be my ride or die. I know I have to work on being happy by myself and not be reliant on others for happiness but easier said than done.

@dmystfy

2 жыл бұрын

Make an effort to build community. Community is something all people want, it’s okay to feel that way

More real life social connections and interactions is needed along with denser neighbourhoods.

Thank you so much in explaining the technically of the brain and currents circumstances. It does make a lot of sense!

TBH you just have to understand the fact that social media is a highlight reel of peoples lives. With that in mind, you can just be happy that your friends are having a good time and you can know that not all of their life is like that.

There are so many things going on here. We as a society have to reevaluate EVERYTHING in our culture. This is heartbreaking for these kids.

@kioshi5864

Жыл бұрын

Revaluate the food they are eating and the school system which is modern slavery and disallows them to ever get enough sleep

Only 24 and when I was in school suicide has been a big issue still is can't tell how many dead homies I went to school with are no longer around including a sibling its only getting worse sadly with time

Loved this video!

Both these kids found refuge in music. For me it's the best therapy!

Sad to hear and see what these young people go through. If it helps at all I really do empathize with their crisis. I am a teacher and the changes I’ve seen in student behaviour as far as this huge wave of anxiety and depression is concerned seems to correspond alongside the smart phone. I have worked with at risk teens since 2000 who exhibited a multiple a varied range of behaviours. Now most teens seem to have the same behavioural challenges. Not all of course but so many of them have real anxiety and depression. What saddens me is they identify as these conditions rather than see the condition as being an illness that they can recover from. The strangest part is how less challenging their current behaviour is in comparison with the constant abusive behaviour of students in my early years of teaching. The current students of the get stressed rather than lash out they look to their phone. The phone it seems is a anti-psychotic drug. I say this with no evidence, but it tones down the anger in the short term. Great for me, but the long term effects are not great for the teen.

I’m 144 days sh free, and I have to say, that that tendency of mine started as a way to express my emotions and stress when I was overwhelmed. But slowly, it turned into a norm. This is the inevitable stage of any addiction. I was trying to stop doing it because I really could feel how destructive it was on me in a long-term perspective. I failed a couple of times. But every time, when I reached about 1-2w, I could feel my body craving for pain. I explained it to myself as if my body connected strong emotions with the feeling of pain, which was followed by relief, and made it a norm. I was terrified when I realized it, and it motivated me even more to stop this addiction once and for all. Although I still subconsciously pick the skin around my nails, very badly at that, but I’ll be working on that too. Healing doesn’t come all at once, it takes time, patience and will.

👏🏾 Thank you 🙏🏾

What a great video/report. We as adults MUST do a better job of understanding what it's like to be a teen in 2023. It's far different than what we experienced...❤ ~ Sensei Dave Armstrong

Thank God I've literally never experienced sadness or depression all over my life; I am 18, living in a 3rd world country but I am always having a dedicated and happy life with my family and most importantly, I am content and happy with MYSELF. We will start a new life in the U.S. soon and I truly hope that me and my little sisters wouldn't get into these kinda stuff.

So, what is the solution? Looks like Art. For two of these teens, music seems to have helped a lot. Creativity, Art, being in the flow and positive experience heal trauma.

"Just the volume of unattainable beauty in a world that seems like its dying is really hard to process."

I just got turned away from a psych place because my last suicide attempt was too far away and because I don’t have a counselor. I’ve tried. They all turn me away. I’m basically screaming for help. No one will help me.

@loturzelrestaurant

2 жыл бұрын

Will you have your Future stolen from you? I dont know if you know that but where the Problems lie are very easy to track. Which political group is more often anti-human-rights and emantes LGBT-Hate and Science-Denial in huge Waves is kinda real-easy to track-down. KZreadrs like ‚Some More News’ and ‚Adam Something’ have covered it much. And Hbomberguys Vaccine-Video may be his most-legendary One but i think the most important for Young People to watch is the One about Climate-Change, which isnt only motivating (especially the end-speech) but extremly telling about WHO to trust in this Age-of-Fakenews.

There is also the sense of over looming helplessness with things that have been going around globally. Like global warming and wars that aren't started by our generation. I often feel like no matter what I do, the future will always look bleak and there is nothing that I can do to make the future better. Nothing I do will matter cause the world is dying anyways

@skatesatgod-fusion2619

2 жыл бұрын

I feel the same way. I know that feeling of helplessness and of having no power to change things. But giving up on it doesn't sit well with me personally. If nothing matters, then why not try anyway? You might just end up causing or igniting some change down the line. Only reason for someone to disagree, would be if they're 100 percent sure of the future, which is a false thing to believe. If we're doomed to fail anyway, why not go down fighting to the last breath instead of giving up completely and sitting idle? No one knows the future, friend. Unexpected things happen all the time.

I've always had trouble with socializing and am generally fine with low social interaction. Should I get that checked out? I'm also not on social media much. I think it might be good to have school psychologists in middle and high schools. Sleep is sort of like a reset button, it helps with a lot of things. If you feel like committing suicide, please sleep on it. It will make you feel better. Tell someone you know about your feelings too. You need to get help when you feel like this. Trust me, getting help will be worth it.

@uzairahmad1112

2 жыл бұрын

I dont know but i suggest you if you feel no better you read and listening Quran its a best way to control emotions sadness feeling.

@pavelmartinez4617

2 жыл бұрын

I think we shouldn't wait until the last moment to seek professional help. The best medicine is the preventive medicine. Good job on being brave enough to seek help. Many won't do it due to stigma.

@skatesatgod-fusion2619

2 жыл бұрын

@@uzairahmad1112 I say good for you if you find solace in religion, I'm glad for you. But just be careful, as religion, regardless of which one you choose, can lead you down some less-than-desirable paths. Particularly so if you're someone who is depressed, or feels lost in life.

@thebeefyjunior

2 жыл бұрын

@@skatesatgod-fusion2619 very well put, maybe a decline in religious practice is a factor in some way to rising teen depression. I'm 17 and know not 1 seriously religious kid from my school

@skatesatgod-fusion2619

2 жыл бұрын

@@thebeefyjunior Perhaps. Religious has its downsides, but the good thing about it is that it can serve as a kind of mental support structure which helps in dealing with problems in life. But it can be easy to lose yourself in religion and go down paths of radicalization, particularly if you're already in a vulnerable state to begin with. Balance is needed. But the bigger contributing factor probably is social media as was pointed out in the video. Besides all the negativity that social media brings to people's lives, it might also be contributing to lesser time spent socializing in person and developing close relationships.

I'm terrified of my little girls reaching adolescence. I feel totally unprepared. Lots of info in this video. Thanks

Thank you for this. My daughter is 5, and I pray she doesn’t struggle like I did.

I believe a lot of these things are caused to childhood exposure to movies. Nobody talks about it, but I noticed a lot movies I watched as a kid really has traumatized me and remained in me till now, as 24 year old. Movies tend to show a lot drastic scenes and they tend to portray catastrophic scenarios, our worst case nightmares, often in social setting. I believe this is where a majority of social anxieties and low self esteem comes from in young adults, because their subconsciousness sucked in movies such as Mean Girls that have a terrible influence.

This is a very important conversation to have. One thing I do strongly believe is that oftentimes, social media is used as an excuse or explanation for the ongoing mental health crisis among adolescents. While I agree that there may be certain factors that aggravate the onset of mental health issues, blaming social media seems more like a cop-out (like how earlier generations were told that TV and video games were the cause of a lot of their issues). I view social media as more of a catalyst. There is an information and sensory overload that causes the lingering issues to progress a lot faster and affect people a lot earlier on in their lives. That said, the root cause of the mental health crisis is not exclusively due to social media, but due to more sinister underlying systemic issues: things like the ever-increasing cost of everything from housing to education to healthcare, compounded by the stress of having to start earning and financially supporting oneself from much younger age. Systemic issues that lead to adolescents being forced to having their lives figured out at a stage in life where they lack the life experience as well as the maturity to make decisions that can have longlasting impacts on their lives.

@skatesatgod-fusion2619

2 жыл бұрын

I agree with the first half of your post, and where you talk about systemic issues to be the causes for these problems. The second part I kind of agree with but not completely, as it focuses solely on financial issues. Not to say that they aren't important, but when we're talking about the teen population as a whole then there are probably other issues affecting them more than financial ones. Most teens wouldn't be worried about buying a house or getting a job. The more pressing issues would be ones related to social issues like conforming to the standards of those around them, whether that be relating to how one looks, popularity in peer groups, success at school/college etc. Which, as you say, are exacerbated by social media even if social media might not be the true, underlying cause.

@adityashankarnarayanan

2 жыл бұрын

@@skatesatgod-fusion2619 you're right. I think I might be projecting some of my own stressors and issues lol 😅

@skatesatgod-fusion2619

2 жыл бұрын

@@adityashankarnarayanan Thats okay. The video was talking about teenagers but us adults have plenty of problems of our own no doubt. Most people probably would be able to relate with the financial issues you described.

Thank you.

I’m 33, I think we had all of the issues- teen drinking, drug use, teen pregnancy and horrible mental health. I truly hope we can progress past these epidemics.