Kids Who Get Smartphones Earlier Become Adults with Worse Mental Health (2023)(afterbabel.com)

97 points by julkali 2 years ago | 47 comments

Kids who own smartphones before age 13 have worse mental health outcomes: Study(abcnews.go.com)

165 points by donsupreme 11 months ago | 49 comments

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.

The teen mental illness epidemic is international – Part 1: The Anglosphere(jonathanhaidt.substack.com)

217 points by paulpauper 3 years ago | 371 comments

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.