
What's causing the mental health crisis among young people of the 2010s-2020s?
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92%
Increased awareness/willingness to diagnose
85%
Social Media
71%
REM defficient sleep
70%
Mass Psychogenic Illness
67%
Phones
57%
The postmodern condition becoming more widespread
55%
Some form of intentional psychological manipulation (algorithmic manipulation, intentional group polarization, psychological warfare, etc.)
51%
Hearing about bad things going on (like Climate Change)
50%
Psychoactive drugs (prescribed or recreational)
41%
There actually is no mental health crisis, it just looks like there is one due to e.g. biased reporting
28%
Urbanicity
27%
Socioeconomic hardships
23%
Microplastics
15%
Some sort of ingested/inhaled contaminant
12%
Nanoplastics
8%
cocaine dust particles passive intake
4%
COVID vaccine side effect
Resolves according to what whatever source I consider most trustworthy on the subject (probably the APA, CDC, or Scott Alexander) lists as the causes on Jan 1, 2030.
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