The teen mental illness epidemic is international (2023)(afterbabel.com)

448 points by simonebrunozzi 2 years ago | 708 comments

After Babel post by Zach Rausch and Jon Haidt arguing that the early-2010s teen mental illness rise occurred simultaneously across the US, UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.

Suicide Rates Are Up for Gen Z Across the Anglosphere, Especially for Girls(afterbabel.com)

67 points by TaurenHunter 2 years ago | 44 comments

Why some researchers think I’m wrong about social media and mental illness(jonathanhaidt.substack.com)

339 points by YuukiRey 3 years ago | 468 comments

Jonathan Haidt's After Babel Substack post laying out six propositions for evaluating evidence on whether social media causes mental illness among teens.

The upstream cause of the youth mental health crisis is the loss of community(afterbabel.com)

684 points by throwup238 2 years ago | 627 comments

An After Babel Substack essay by Seth Kaplan arguing that the loss of community is the upstream cause of the youth mental health crisis.

Kids who get smartphones earlier become adults with worse mental health(jonathanhaidt.substack.com)

313 points by civeng 3 years ago | 294 comments

Play deprivation is a major cause of the teen mental health crisis(jonathanhaidt.substack.com)

338 points by trevin 3 years ago | 291 comments

An After Babel Substack essay by Jon Haidt and Peter Gray arguing that the decline of unsupervised free play is a major cause of the teen mental health crisis.