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Originally Posted by ITB_OG

There's plenty to be found. The WRAL article even had some data going back to at least 2011. There's been numerous articles and books about the subject. Kids, particularly teens, well being has been in decline for a couple decades now. I think that was the takeaway from the article for me, and I was adamantly opposed to schools closing during the pandemic.

Exactly my point. The article itself "proved" this has been a trend that long predated 2020-21.

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Originally Posted by m378

So we agree?

"My man", it'd be insane to think there hasn't been a larger than normal increase in depression, anxiety, suicide, etc in children as a result of lockdowns/covid. Unfortunately I'm unable to find any historical data past 2020, but we shall see I guess. However I never said there weren't increases prior. All I said was I hope we learned from the experience.

Going back the the previous sidebar in this thread, there is well documented data on what social media is doing to teens mental health. SnapChat and Instagram had widely publicized studies on them pre pandemic.

Anecdotally, my kids are both in therapy now. I have been in therapy since Feb. My wife started in June. The pandemic was a lot for sure, but in speaking for myself, I was on this trajectory for over five years. My wife should have been in it forever (but the stigma in her family is therapy is for weak people).

It took me tossing a grenade into our lives for the choice to be made. And that grenade had nothing to do with the Pandemic.

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Here's a pretty good article m378, which even hits on your connection.

It discusses the four "main" things that seem to be feeding this trend since the 1990s (I'll give you one guess as to what number 1 is)

The third fallacy is that today’s mental-health crisis was principally caused by the pandemic and an overreaction to COVID. “Rising teenage sadness isn’t a new trend, but rather the acceleration and broadening of a trend that clearly started before the pandemic,” Laurence Steinberg, a psychologist at Temple University, told me. But he added: “We shouldn’t ignore the pandemic, either. The fact that COVID seems to have made teen mental health worse offers clues about what’s really driving the rise in sadness.”

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