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Re:Play Deprivation Is a Major Cause of the Teen Mental Heal... by outlace on Friday July 28, 2023 @02:10PM (#36910872)
I haven’t looked into the data carefully but this strikes me as implausible at first impression for a few reasons.

One is that cultures with highly structured time for kids like China do not have the same dramatic rises in mental illness, that I’m aware of. Two is that this seems to only apply to middle class or rich western kids (unsurprising for academic studies). You really think poor kids are spending too much time at piano lessons and not playing? No they have the opposite problem of too much lack of structure.

Overall this seems quite narrow minded to me. The only part of this that rings true is the cultural phenomenon of wanting to make feel everyone safe all the time, even from mere ideas and speech.

Re:Play Deprivation Is a Major Cause of the Teen Mental Heal... by MattGaiser on Friday July 28, 2023 @02:16PM (#36910949)
> China do not have the same dramatic rises in mental illness

Or does their culture just tend to view higher levels of distress as normal given how competitive it is there?

https://fortune.com/2023/07/06/china-gen-z-mental-health-cri...

That being said, they are open that there are issues there as well.

Re:Play Deprivation Is a Major Cause of the Teen Mental Heal... by outlace on Friday July 28, 2023 @02:19PM (#36911000)
Yeah but there’s big a difference between mental health issues in China being driven by intense academic competition and pressure and, as the Haidt article claims, lack of enough unstructured playtime.
Re:Play Deprivation Is a Major Cause of the Teen Mental Heal... by tinycombinator on Friday July 28, 2023 @04:12PM (#36912629)
Intense academic competition and lack of unstructured playtime would seem to go hand-in-hand, no?
Re:Play Deprivation Is a Major Cause of the Teen Mental Heal... by ddq on Friday July 28, 2023 @03:51PM (#36912335)
The epidemic of youth suicide in Japan and South Korea related to the stress of their rigid, demanding education systems is fairly common knowledge.