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Perhaps a better headline would be "About a quarter of teenagers need more support."
I'm not fond of the framing of the issue as "more kids have mental disorders." It's a very short gap between that and "kids are soft these days. In my day...."
Some kids do, of course, have congenital conditions and so forth such that they would need a lot of help regardless of their environment and circumstances.
But for the most part, the mental health "problem" isn't inside their heads so much as it's in the world they're trying to live in.
It's also unfortunate that the drugs we have right now aren't really all that effective for a lot of the people taking them.
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/ar...l.pone.0265928
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK361016/
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I would disagree, Hot Pepsi.
While I get where you are coming from, the language of "more support" has been used for decades and fails. It needs presented in the harshest possible terms for people to give a shit.Comment
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Perhaps "need more support" makes it sound like not much, but it is. Maybe "need a lot more support to address this crisis."
Either way, the terms we're generally using now are victim-blaming.
I'm also not a fan of "resilience" as in "kids need more resilience" or worse, fucking "grit."
That term suggests the person using it doesn't really understand what it's like to be very depressed.
Depression isn't just "I don't know how I'm going to manage this" - although that's part of it - the feeling is "what is the point of me trying to manage this?"
All the grit and resilience and "stay positive" and all that doesn't help if it just seems fundamentally pointless and/or hopeless.Comment
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We get shitloads of stuff at work about "resilience training" which I interpret as "we aren't going to fix the problems so shut the fuck up". It's one of my trigger words now.Comment
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