> 25% of US university students on antidepressants.
Is it because they're emotionally worse off, or is it because pharma is advertising them more aggressively, kickbacks, etc
Is it because they're emotionally worse off, or is it because pharma is advertising them more aggressively, kickbacks, etc
https://www.cdc.gov/healthy-youth/mental-health/mental-healt...
Increased pharma pushing is an easy scapegoat, but it would have to be making these youth more depressed before they were ever taking antidepressants.
Social media and phones have been disconnecting real interactions and pushing people onto fake digital "connections." Then when people are more lonely than ever, we're now pushing them "AI bot connections" to help loneliness, purely because VC's see $ in it, basically giving desperate people soda to help their hunger.
It is like a hyper version of de Tocqueville now. No matter how poor someone is, they still don't feel that far from being rich and famous in America.
This creates enormous status anxiety coupled with the reality of student loans and inflation it is a really bad deal for young people's mental health.