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The Anxious Generation
Jonathan HaidtAfter more than a decade of stability or improvement, the mental health of adolescents plunged in the early 2010s. Rates of depression, anxiety, self-harm, & suicide rose sharply, more than doubling on many measures. Why?
In The Anxious Generation, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt lays out the facts about the epidemic of teen mental illness that hit many countries at the same time. He then investigates the nature of childhood, including why children need play & independent exploration to mature into competent, thriving adults. Haidt shows how the “play-based childhood” began to decline in the 1980s, & how it was finally wiped out by the arrival of the “phone-based childhood” in the early 2010s. He presents more than a dozen mechanisms by which this “great rewiring of childhood” has interfered with children’s social & neurological development, covering everything from sleep deprivation to attention fragmentation, addiction, loneliness, social contagion, social comparison, & perfectionism. He explains why social media damages girls more than boys & why boys have been withdrawing from the real world into the virtual world, with disastrous consequences for themselves, their families, & their societies.
Most important, Haidt issues a clear call to action. He diagnoses the “collective action problems” that trap us, & then proposes four simple rules that might set us free. He describes steps that parents, teachers, schools, tech companies, & governments can take to end the epidemic of mental illness & restore a more humane childhood.
Haidt has spent his career speaking truth backed by data in the most difficult landscapes—communities polarized by politics & religion, campuses battling culture wars, & now the public health emergency faced by Gen Z. We cannot…
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