Is modern life making today’s teenagers more depressed?

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1 November 2017
Is modern life making today’s teenagers more depressed?
 
By Clare Wilson

IT’S a tough time to be a teen, with cyberbullying, exam stress and a selfie culture that piles on the pressure to always look good.

Perhaps it is little wonder newspaper headlines talk about a burgeoning crisis in our children’s mental health. Self-harm and depression are reported to be soaring. A survey by the UK’s National Union of Students found eight out of 10 people in higher education say they have had problems with mental health in the past year.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg23631503-200-is-modern-life-making-todays-teenagers-more-depressed/

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If it is, it would be because they are set up with unnaturally high expectations of life and not taught how to handle the inevitable problems of real life.