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post 1659502523 04-12-2022, 04:51 AM
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44% of American teens are sad and hopeless.

https://www.theatlantic.com/newslett...nxiety/629524/


The government survey of almost 8,000 high-school students, which was conducted in the first six months of 2021, found a great deal of variation in mental health among different groups. More than one in four girls reported that they had seriously contemplated attempting suicide during the pandemic, which was twice the rate of boys. Nearly half of LGBTQ teens said they had contemplated suicide during the pandemic, compared with 14 percent of their heterosexual peers. Sadness among white teens seems to be rising faster than among other groups.
Why is it not surprising that the highest % of unhappiness is from LGBTQ?
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post 1659502683 04-12-2022, 05:00 AM
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44% of Americans are sad and useless
post 1659502743 04-12-2022, 05:02 AM
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They're sad and hopeless when their phone privileges are taken away.

Teenagers are hormonal drama queens. Queers are just mentally ill to begin with.
post 1659502933 04-12-2022, 05:09 AM
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God damn, even worse than I thought.

Absolute societal decline right here, things need to change and the woke cancer must be completely eradicated.
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Look who's fukin teaching them?

It's not really surprising when their teachers are just as misrable ****s
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post 1659503043 04-12-2022, 05:13 AM
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Originally Posted By ****inator⏩
God damn, even worse than I thought.

Absolute societal decline right here, things need to change and the woke cancer must be completely eredicated.
Were in total decline in every way. This isn't surprising at all
post 1659503443 04-12-2022, 05:24 AM
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88% of the misc tho
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post 1659503773 04-12-2022, 05:34 AM
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Originally Posted By xxAchillesxx⏩
88% of the misc tho
Lol
post 1659503883 04-12-2022, 05:39 AM
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Damn can't seem to find some studies I save about how women are addicted to anti depression meds and getting unhappier than men, the older they get the worse it gets. Rate of suicide for women is also dramatically increasing.
post 1659504213 04-12-2022, 05:48 AM
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NEw World Order.................its over enjoy the decline
post 1659504453 04-12-2022, 05:56 AM
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it was like that in the 90s too. that's why everyone loved nirvana
post 1659504623 04-12-2022, 06:02 AM
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Originally Posted By ****inator⏩
Damn can't seem to find some studies I save about how women are addicted to anti depression meds and getting unhappier than men, the older they get the worse it gets. Rate of suicide for women is also dramatically increasing.
No problem finding dick studies tho
post 1659506053 04-12-2022, 06:51 AM
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That just means it’s working.

post 1659506493 04-12-2022, 07:05 AM
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Something something social media
post 1659506723 04-12-2022, 07:12 AM
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Male checking in
post 1659506823 04-12-2022, 07:14 AM
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hold up...teenagers feeling sad? shocking
post 1659507073 04-12-2022, 07:21 AM
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Teenagers used to want to be a doctor, lawyer, cop or firefighter. Now everyone wants to be YouTuber and influencer. World just can’t be full of influencers. LOL
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post 1659507283 04-12-2022, 07:26 AM
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They need to ****ing go outside every once in a while.
post 1659507583 04-12-2022, 07:31 AM
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Good to see the rope numbers gonna increase for the top group
post 1659507713 04-12-2022, 07:33 AM
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looks as if all those LGBBQ-friendly commercials haven't fixed anything.

odd.
post 1659508093 04-12-2022, 07:42 AM
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gee i wonder if locking them away from their peers for 2 years of their prime psychological development had anything to do with this.
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It's kind of funny/odd that the LGBT is on the rise. I'd expect the opposite. But, they're predisposed to shyt like this b/c they already have issues.
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lgbt is based on pleasure

The fool runs after the pleasures of life and sees himself cheated; the sage avoids evils.
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So females and ****s are the highest groups, colour me shocked lol, both groups who generally want everything handed to them with little work output
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Originally Posted By davik⏩
lgbt is based on pleasure

The fool runs after the pleasures of life and sees himself cheated; the sage avoids evils.
Who are you kuntfucious?
You are the only problem you will ever have and YOU are the only solution.

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because of fukkin "social media"

everyones glued to their phones.

didnt have this chit in early 2000s
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Originally Posted By friesbruh⏩
because of fukkin "social media"

everyones glued to their phones.

didnt have this chit in early 2000s
This

Even at work literally my coworkers just talk about Netflix podcasts anime or tik tok it wasn't like this even 10 years ago
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LOL at black males being the lowest despite going through the most. We already know it's over, might as well not even bother.
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What do they have to look forward to?

- Probably won’t ever be able to buy a house
- traditional nuclear families are falling apart
- wages not matching inflation
- social media. Enough said
- news from all directions just beating them down with negativity
Etc etc etc

I’m surprised it’s only 44%
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1. Social-media use

Five years ago, the psychologist Jean Twenge wrote an influential and controversial feature in The Atlantic titled “Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?” based on her book iGen.Around 2012, Twenge wrote, she had noticed that teen sadness and anxiety began to steadily rise in the U.S. and other rich developed countries. She looked for explanations and realized that 2012 was precisely when the share of Americans who owned a smartphone surpassed 50 percent and mobile social-media use spiked.

In the past few years, scientists have disputed the idea that social-media use itself makes teenagers miserable. “There’s been absolutely hundreds of [social-media and mental-health] studies, almost all showing pretty small effects,” Jeff Hancock, a behavioral psychologist at Stanford University who has conducted a meta-analysis of 226 such studies, told The New York Times recently.

But I think Twenge’s strongest point is misunderstood. Social media isn’t like rat poison, which is toxic to almost everyone. It’s more like alcohol: a mildly addictive substance that can enhance social situations but can also lead to dependency and depression among a minority of users.

This is very close to the conclusion reached by none other than Instagram. The company’s internal research from 2020 found that, while most users had a positive relationship with the app, one-third of teen girls said “Instagram made them feel worse,” even though these girls “feel unable to stop themselves” from logging on. And if you don’t believe a company owned by ********, believe a big new study from Cambridge University, in which researchers looked at 84,000 people of all ages and found that social media was strongly associated with worse mental health during certain sensitive life periods, including for girls ages 11 to 13.

Why would social media affect teenage mental health in this way? One explanation is that teenagers (and teenage girls in particular) are uniquely sensitive to the judgment of friends, teachers, and the digital crowd. As I’ve written, social media seems to hijack this keen peer sensitivity and drive obsessive thinking about body image and popularity. The problem isn’t just that social media fuels anxiety but also that—as we’ll see—it makes it harder for today’s young people to cope with the pressures of growing up.
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Everything changed around 2012
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