1. Is it possible that the teen mental health crisis is a natural and healthy response to conditions that do not allow for a healthy mind? And therefore, should we not be addressing the causes of the crisis, rather than trying to heal the symptoms? What if it simply sucks to be a teen in 2023, the way Western society has set up their environment, and the answer isn't more zoloft and CBT?
2. Interesting parallel here with mandatory DEI trainings apparently also not accomplishing much of anything besides job creation: https://www.reworked.co/employee-experience/most-dei-trainin... . Another example of an unexamined unquestioned good that seems to not live up to rigorous scrutiny, akin to therapy.
Wonder if the universal, age and geography-agnostic pattern here, as the author points out, is that "you can’t change people who aren’t ready to change".