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.

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

313 points by civeng 3 years ago | 294 comments

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

97 points by julkali 2 years ago | 47 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.

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.

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.

I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis(twitter.com)

2013 points by reasonableklout 5 months ago | 1180 comments

Mitchell Hashimoto's X post arguing some companies are in 'AI psychosis', relying on agents to fix bugs fast (MTTR) at the expense of reliability (MTBF).

The Twitter API is now effectively unmaintained(snarfed.org)

363 points by edent 3 years ago | 461 comments

Ryan Barrett's blog post arguing the Twitter API is effectively unmaintained, citing the decline of Twitter employee posts on the developer forum.

The Other Epidemic: Trying to get off benzodiazepines(thebeliever.net)

265 points by gaplong 5 days ago | 247 comments

A Believer magazine essay about the difficulty of tapering off and withdrawing from benzodiazepine medications.

I miss thinking hard(jernesto.com)

1166 points by jernestomg 8 months ago | 633 comments

A personal blog post venting that the author rarely spends days thinking hard about difficult problems anymore, tagged as an opinion piece on AI.