The Teen Mental Illness Epidemic Began Around 2012

Re:The Teen Mental Illness Epidemic Began Around 2012 by LarryMullins on Wednesday February 08, 2023 @01:50PM (#34712810)

Going to college is not the same as graduating with a degree. A ton of people go to college for a time and leave with little more than a mountain of debt. Also, a bachelors degree is not even the least degree you can get from a university.

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Re:The Teen Mental Illness Epidemic Began Around 2012 by magicalist on Wednesday February 08, 2023 @02:25PM (#34713433)

Fair point, but that's not an argument that things aren't changing, just that they might not be.

From a quick search:

Between 2011 and 2021, the percentage of people age 25 and older who had completed a bachelor's degree or higher increased by 7.5 percentage points from 30.4% to 37.9%[1].

It would be helpful to get an attainment by age by year breakdown.

And this still doesn't address the OP's hypothesis that part of the increase in mental health issues is due to increasing admissions pressure over the years, which many people have brought up anecdotally. Whether or not the majority of high schoolers experience that pressure doesn't imply that it still couldn't be part of the problem (which also, incidentally, isn't experienced by a majority of high schoolers).

[1] https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2022/educatio...

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Re:The Teen Mental Illness Epidemic Began Around 2012 by datavirtue on Wednesday February 08, 2023 @10:48PM (#34719529)

That was because of the great recession. Those numbers are petering out and will soon drop off a cliff.

There is a bitch slap of boomers and beleaguered birth rate around the corner.

The meager birth rate and dying boomers are real world paychecks and tax revenue drying up. Society is going to change drastically, and it will seem all at once.

All the corps are going to have to pull back when those boomers stop spending and there aren't enough feeders to replace them.

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