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> China do not have the same dramatic rises in mental illness

Or does their culture just tend to view higher levels of distress as normal given how competitive it is there?

https://fortune.com/2023/07/06/china-gen-z-mental-health-cri...

That being said, they are open that there are issues there as well.

Yeah but there’s big a difference between mental health issues in China being driven by intense academic competition and pressure and, as the Haidt article claims, lack of enough unstructured playtime.

Intense academic competition and lack of unstructured playtime would seem to go hand-in-hand, no?

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