Re:With teen mental health deteriorating over five years, th...
by King-Aaron on Sunday January 28, 2018 @11:28PM
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> We’re still having children bringing guns to school to shoot their bullies.
Americans seem to bring guns to church to shoot church goers. They bring guns to cinemas to shoot patrons. They leave guns in their car's back seat so their infant can accidentally shoot them through the back of their own head.
I think the example of gun violence has a solution found outside the topic of teen depression.
Gun ownership and the romanticism around the 'right to bear arms' in the US is a whole deluded issue in itself.
Re:With teen mental health deteriorating over five years, th...
by ianai on Sunday January 28, 2018 @11:34PM
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I addressed depression in the later paragraph. Kids are facing a pinch. If they do the socially expected thing and be “dumb” they face dismal employment opportunities. If they buck the trend they face harassment and still bad employment opportunities. Faced with no way out people feel depressed. And I’m just singling out a couple stress points there.
Re:With teen mental health deteriorating over five years, th...
by brokensegue on Monday January 29, 2018 @12:57AM
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kids in my experience don't think about dismal employment opportunities. maybe late high schoolers but even though.
Last I knew, kids were still largely growing up in schools where being smart is dumb and prosecuted through bullying. That’s sufficient for mass depression to climb when the rest of life becomes more stressful. I.e. people really are having a hard time finding actually good work that provides health care and a steady paycheck and decent work environment. The opioid crisis has fallouts, in addition.
Most of what I just said was said by the hippies in the 60s.