Re:US suicide deaths reached record high in 2022
by softsound on Friday August 11, 2023 @12:20AM
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It's actually a lot about a car based, commercialized society more then a phone or anything. If we had walkable cities, communities we wanted to be a part in, people would feel a whole lot less lonely. Fixing zoning laws, beautifying cities, better public transportation and working to bring more of nature into our everyday lives would make a digital one less interesting and we also would not need to work as hard as a good life would be in reach. It's like blaming books for causing people to be antisocial, same thing as video games...
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Re:US suicide deaths reached record high in 2022
by rcme on Friday August 11, 2023 @12:25AM
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So why does youth mental health show a steep decline after the introduction of the smartphone, especially in girls?
Re:US suicide deaths reached record high in 2022
by jordanreger on Friday August 11, 2023 @12:30AM
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It is both. They both absolutely contribute to our mental health crisis, and I'd argue it's worse in suburb-locked North America. I, as I'm sure others have as well, have identified these two individual problems as major offenders of my mental health. When I spend time away from both, I feel magnitudes of order happier. Mix that with the dystopian job culture of "the future" (today) and you've got yourself a nightmare only 80s writers would've thought of.
Re:US suicide deaths reached record high in 2022
by vintermann on Friday August 11, 2023 @05:26AM
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Lots of things changed around that time. Lots of things change all the time. Unless there's an intervention that is shown to work (ban smartphones, mental health goes up), I wouldn't trust such correlations.