Comments by "Maggie" (@maggie6152) on "Teens Are In Crisis. Here’s Why. | The New York Times" video.

  1. You are right, but a huge factor in that overprotectiveness is the same information, news, science, algorithmic nightmare overload that's making teens so depressed. Life is getting infinitely more complex, we're finding more and more out about how health, environment, social status, relationships, and more factor into a kids development and parents are overwhelmed by the amount of information and the pressure to adhere and be perfect in raising our kids is higher than ever before, while social support (in the US) has been declining. And don't get me started about how black box algorithms push content to make us more paranoid. 😤 We need serious tech regulations and increased social support for parents so they don't have to feel so obsessive over their kids.
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  2. It is a very, very, very important part of the mental health crisis parcel, but not the only reason. A lack of access to social services, bleak economic prospects, mental health stigmatization, the housing crisis, dealing with information overload, manipulative black box algorithms that push extremely damaging or upsetting content, isolation, poverty, living on the edge of world war 3, the terrifying economic power an extremely oppressive government (CCP) has over almost all the world, feeling powerless to change an increasingly extreme and corporatist government (US), gun violence (US), climate change, the pandemic. But yes, adequately funding mental health care, paying our health care and social workers what they are worth for the invaluable work they do, having an appropriate ration of staff to patients, and universal health care are HUGE.
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