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[–] 47 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Millennials have higher rates of mental illness than previous generations. We are far from fine.

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  • [–] 28 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    There are multiple possible explanations for that. I don't see any direct link between the kind of content we millenials consumed in our childhood and the apparent rise in the number of mental health cases. I'd be willing to bet that the time spent consuming said content plays a much bigger factor.

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    When I was younger I wasn't sad because I was online, I was online because I was sad and felt out of place in reality.

    The cough isn't the cause of the cold, it's a symptom.

    Also, I gained more empathy the older I got. So you probably need a bigger data set than your own experiences.

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    I think it's less the network's fault, and more on where someone chooses to spend their time on the network. If you're on Facebook, it is in their interest to piss you off so you stay and fight. But plenty of other tools exist to connect folks online without being manipulative.

    It's like fire, nuclear energy, or most any other tool. Use it right and everyone benefits, use it wrong and people get hurt.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    Yes but we can't tell if that's caused by being online, it's possible you'd have had the same problems anyway or possibly worse. For all we know the internet helped you deal with your issues and without it you'd have ended up a serial killer.

    Life is just very complex.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Hard to believe this isn't simply due to improved detection, reporting and treatment options.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Gen X and boomers still go to the Dr and undergo depression screenings, yet Gen X has roughly half the rates of depression as gen z and millennials. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9934502/

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    The key metric would be to review care detection and frequency at the same chronological age of participants, not simply today.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    No, do not write leading statements like that, it's rude. Just ask me to clarify.

    I'm saying there's.no point measuring millennial healthcare analytics vs older generations because millennials aren't older yet (obviously). So point in time analytics aren't valuable ( edit to my conversation, obviously they are useful) My point was to understand the health analytics of a cohort relative to care options, you must consider the same age band, no matter the year.

    So like " describe mental health detection among 20-30 yo's across decade's of history"

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