America’s Teens Are Suffering: Inside the Adolescent Mental Health Crisis

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America’s Teens Are Suffering: Inside the Adolescent Mental Health Crisis | Amanpour and Company

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Social media is one factor on a long list that may be contributing to a mental health crisis among teens. While rates of anxiety and depression in this age group continue to rise, New York Times reporter Matt Richtel has spent more than a year interviewing American adolescents and their families. Richtel talked to Michel Martin about his series, "The Inner Pandemic," and the latest installment just out this week which focuses on the impact of the crisis on teens of color.
Originally aired on December 16, 2022
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@Cutemomperson Жыл бұрын

Young people aren't provided with opportunities to feel useful. When families lived on the land, children helped with any chores they could handle. One room school houses worked by giving more advanced students responsibility to help their younger schoolmates along, helping to cement their knowledge, and building empathy

@genopsych Жыл бұрын

The problem is not with the children but with adults. We are choosing to create a world that is inhospitable to life. The vulnerable experience the brunt of those choices regardless of age or species. Rather than spending our time, energy, and resources on personal enrichment; we can choose to spend it on healing and supporting our world. As we grow in our capacity to affect our 🌏, the consequences of our choices matter more. The vulnerable are our guides, not our problems.

@deskryptic Жыл бұрын

Word

@karendalsadik7119 Жыл бұрын

I agree except some personal enrichment is healing. Art, music and dance lessons can help them express their feelings and connect their spirit to their body.

@BishopEddie5443 3 ай бұрын

Their moms abandoned them to pursue careers outside the home. Christ our only Hope!

@barbaraklaser3681 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for this coverage. We live in a much more difficult world than I did as a kid, and it makes perfect sense that it's having an impact on teens today, in a way we've never seen before. Every adult should watch this.

@jjjjjjjjkigghh8662 Жыл бұрын

I truly feel bad for kids today. We should make things better for them

@ceciliavillalobos9837 Жыл бұрын

Kids are the future, not the old stank ass Zombie haft of them can't walk up stairs, it's the blind leading the death who are dragging the others who forgot they died and they just didn't fall yet. Old ones need to get to a level to know they are outdated, that we need up to date employees in the Capital. Even watching people going to jail, for doing whatever just to keep Alive. We need to write a statement and get the signatures needed to start a position that starts making the difference, we keep doing it over and over. The elite have took this Country, mislead, threw out the bills and laws that could helped to keep all in the plan. There is one way

@erickborling1302 Жыл бұрын

So speak out against Facebook and social media!

@BishopEddie5443 3 ай бұрын

Their moms abandoned them to pursue careers outside the home. Christ our only Hope!

@ellenbruckermarshall4179 Жыл бұрын

Things that hurt children: distracted parents. If someone is pushing a stroller and scrolling on the phone, then flip to the work of Gabor Mate’.

@daoistdansah54 Жыл бұрын

Way to go Morehouse School of Medicine! And thank you for mention of implicit bias among clinicians re: misdiagnosing young black kids.

@kuistancfraine3488 Жыл бұрын

Yup

@evedelgado2345 Жыл бұрын

I think it's becoming sinful to even bring children into this ugly,shallow, corrupt society. Humans are just so awful to one another. I take pity on new babies that are arriving into this plane of existence.

@BishopEddie5443 3 ай бұрын

Their moms abandoned them to pursue careers outside the home. Christ our only Hope!

@biglebowski3961 Жыл бұрын

There is no going back now. Its all the technology, phones, computers, gadgets around us. Movies, streaming, sports, 24 hrs a day none stop. How can anyone handle all that stimulation? We all know what it's doing to all of us in general but there is no one to stop it. Humanity will probably crash at some point.

@kesart8378 Жыл бұрын

Dear Big, I do appreciate your sunny optimism, but let's look at these issues in as unvarnished a way as possible, yeah? Cheers (snark intended)

@EvolutionWendy Жыл бұрын

Fact that we live in an inhumane "machine" of capitalism contributes to emotional problems. _Causes emotional problems._

@lemostjoyousrenegade Жыл бұрын

🎯

@jeaninemorris6241 Жыл бұрын

My kids had plenty of sleep! Sleep when they were sick no er for them! They chose schoolwork over tv until homework was done. Excelled in sports & had great friends. I told them how you can't get enough of needed sleep. My daughter, 30, is smart at work & smart financially. Is strong & independent! My son is a Firefighter/RN/EMT & is now in training to become a Paramedic! Just turned 27:) give kids structure & understanding, teach patience & forgiveness, kindness & laughter, empathy & sorrow, truth & trust. Parents are a childs 1st teacher. Good food. Best kids. my kids love to make my eyes roll. I saw such laziness during lockdown. Blame blame blame...yes the children suffered, because of their PARENTS! due diligence is not an option when parenting!

@kesart8378 Жыл бұрын

I have qualms about the guest's seeming dismissal of social media as a significant factor in this crisis given the many articles written by mental health professionals that have indicted social media for the very problems that the speaker cited. No social media should not bear all the burden, but I felt that he was a bit too forgiving of the negative impacts of immersion in the world of "influencers," trolls, and likes and dislikes.

@laurensargent9471 Жыл бұрын

Social media? Maybe a pandemic, climate crisis and proximity to global nuclear war have a role? The young people in my life feel these.

@RyanRuark Жыл бұрын

It’s all of those things amplified and bullhorned at people through social media. Social is lighter fluid, the world itself is the fuel, and we’re the fire.

@TennesseeJed Жыл бұрын

Heck I feel those too at 58, and well past puberty!

@ianchandley Жыл бұрын

My money is on Social Media. I quit SM two years ago and my life almost immediately improved! Social Media has become a replacement for needed human interactions, and is a social disease like gonorrhea…..

@Pou1gie1 Жыл бұрын

@@ianchandley Gonorrhea is an STD, and it can cause ppl to become sterile. It isn't a social disease.

@milascave2 Жыл бұрын

laren: Not to mention economic changes that make it much harder to establish the kinds of lives that society has come to expect them to attain. But all of this is magnified by social media, which constantly pushes these problems into their faces while providing no solutions. And it has problems it causes in and of themselves, too. The greatest being more social isolation. Heck, it's having that effect on a lot of louder people, too.

@jaykay415 Жыл бұрын

There's also a fear of stigma among some parents (primarily "lower economic classes"), which can prevent them from seeking help. If those kids can't get help from their parents, they become that much more hopeless - a dangerous place to be.

@diamondsndregs Жыл бұрын

What he says at 3:47 and beyond about the neurological mismatch is exactly what I'm seeing in my youngest Gen Z kids, who are post pubescent but aren't old enough to get out into the world for themselves. Through what they're picking up in the information overload, they are far more burdened than they can constructively act on. I have had one attending therapy, but it hasn't been that productive. The next step is to change therapists and begin attending together. But I say all this because I agree this is a big problem for this generation of kids.

@mnemosynevermont5524 Жыл бұрын

Kids have been having a hard time for decades, now that it gets social media attention there's an outcry, but still nothing will be done.

@judykinsman3258 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for this informative & important program. I hope we go even further into historical data & what we can institutionally change to help our future kids.

@nateengland4695 Жыл бұрын

Not one mention of the most significant threat to our youth was not mentioned once, heating of our planet. Thus, I give this otherwise good post a C-. Having grown up being trained in school what to do during nuclear attack, I understand the low level bad feeling of a threat that is really unstoppable.

@elizabeththelen7955 Жыл бұрын

Obesity. My father was obese. Now we are vegan. Wfpbno (whole foods plant based no oil) helps mood and mind.

@kesart8378 Жыл бұрын

With respect to readers of colour, I wonder if young Americans of colour are experiencing more depression and suicidal ideation because they are far more aware--through the internet and twenty four hour cable television--of the terrible reach of systemic racism, and just how wildly unfair and blatantly rigged the system--socially, economically, politically, judicially, etc.--is toward people of colour. (This is not meant to let the UK and Canada off the hook.) This generation has seen so many "viewers cautioned" videos of men of colour being killed by American police, has watched accounts of the murderous destruction of prosperous Black American communities, has learned of the staggering number of lynchings and has seen violent racists parading through American streets. And most recently this generation has witnessed state governors show far more concern about the feelings of overly sensitive White children and their raucous parents than about the need for Black children--indeed, all American children--to learn of the history of slavery in the states. Surely anyone reasonable, informed person would find this depressing, but most especially so if it directly impacted their hopes, dreams--and their very lives. As one of my favourite KZfaq content creators says, "It's just a thought." Cheers

@angiesunnie8469 Жыл бұрын

In a capitalistic society the things that bring a profit is what is prioritizes, fixing issues and caring for people isn't cost effective. 👌🇺🇸🤷‍♀️

@Nan-59 Жыл бұрын

I personally don’t believe there’s been a DECLINE IN DRUG USE. JUST HOW I SEE IT. We’ve lost MANY young people, friends of my kids, to overdoses.

@TheAngelaoddone Жыл бұрын

A psychotherapist spends 45-60 minutes a week with an adolescent. Someone who prescribes is usually overwhelmed by treating too many patients and spends 15-20 minutes/month or less with their patients. There'no mechanism via health insurance to pay therapists to communicate w/ prescribers. Good therapists get a signed release from parents to do so anyway.

@lindawellner5415 Жыл бұрын

Gen Z needs to be heard...hopefully while alive...so listen to our kids please...give them open mikes

@bobbysquinch5085 Жыл бұрын

I continue to say that this is a criminality underrated and undersubscribed channel. There is never an interview that doesn’t enlighten and inform me.

@nickanderson412 Жыл бұрын

Their world is ending and rent is still due. Revolution is inevitable.

@geoffreyharris5931 Жыл бұрын

Woe to America's teens. Note that school gets in the way of sleep and somewhat in the way of activity and connection. A lot of tech does too as does overbuilding. It would be better to be outside with little school in a more open landscape and with connections.

@kesart8378 Жыл бұрын

Are you advocating for less education for already undereducated American children?

@kesart8378 Жыл бұрын

Do American schools operate during times ordinarily reserved for sleeping?

@diamondsndregs Жыл бұрын

@@kesart8378 In Ohio, my kids have had years where their classes started at 7:45 am or earlier, which means they were catching the bus or getting a ride sometimes before 7 am. They had to get up at 6 am. In the winter months, it's dark until around 7:20. All of that is too early. I think it's scheduled like that for economic reasons, because they need to run the buses multiple times, with some schools in the district starting earlier than others and the same buses used for both.

@TenaciousSLG Жыл бұрын

Michel Martin is such a great interviewer, and this interview was so interesting that I wished they could have had at least an hour-long interview. Looking forward to checking out Matt Richtel's articles.

@MsUtuber2 Жыл бұрын

Teens today have less hope that they can survive in our society.

@byhookorcrookp Жыл бұрын

Did he say gun violence once?

@GrandmaCathy Жыл бұрын

Everyone else is suffering too.

@advocacynaccountablity Жыл бұрын

This is one of the most pressing issue today. These children are managing the most *emotional* pain in global history, perhaps. The illusion of Choice, particularly in America, is a tremendous instance of gaslighting. Mental health support is economically inaccessible for so many Americans.

@learningvideosbynikhil8308 11 ай бұрын

I’m from Texas(and just started my junior year of college). Tbh a lot of kids my age group(18-21) and other teens look younger than some years back(I’m not sure but I think because of less smoking and exposure to certain things, plus also better nutrition and health approaches), yes with the exception of some athletes(the athletes always look bigger/stronger and able to grow facial hair easily because of exercise(and higher testosterone….an example is the pitcher Roman kimball on South Carolina who recently recovered from tommy john surgery), but sadly we’re suffering because of both external pressures and mental health(basically the need to succeed at a certain age and frequent comparisons with those who have achieved a lot)

@sharonneth4231 11 ай бұрын

Reading a lot of these comments, and all the opinions are touching every viewpoint. It seems to me the answer lies in simplifying ones own life. There are parts of america who do not care about the internet and comparing themselves to others. Yes, and they are modern communities with active lifestyles. As an avid walker myself i notice more and more kids are out at the park where I exercise WITHOUT a smartphone or any other device and they are having a blast! I live in a mixed race community and most of us interact with each other. We also have organized sports with supportive parents watching their kids and rooting them on. Most kids are flexible if you give them a chance to be kids and give them a little room to make mistakes. No, my community is not well off either in fact it is a lower class community with a great park system and a small town feel.

@lohphat Жыл бұрын

I blame the dysfunction of the impersonal nature of smartphones.

@kesart8378 Жыл бұрын

What electronic agency is collaborating with children and adolescents to avoid sleep? Are not millions of children awake staring at the screens of their mobiles, tablets, laptops and computer monitors?

@MsUtuber2 Жыл бұрын

Mental health experts give 0% expectation for recovery. Can't see young folks just "throwing off" the diagnosis.

@emilyl6746 11 ай бұрын

This is a parenting problem. Schools were never designed to be mental health facilities. It is not the state's place to do that. Teachers are not mental health professionals. If you chose to be a parent, it is YOUR responsibility to address whatever mental health issues your child has. That's what you signed up for by procreating.

@chopincam-robertpark6857 Жыл бұрын

Excellent, that's why a watch regularly, I would have like another 20 minutes

@rfeyman3682 Жыл бұрын

The problem is that the pandemic forced us to increase the amount of time we spend online and the internet is sometimes just an absolute cesspool of humanity. People don't seem to be able to connect that they are communicating with another living and breathing human that is just trying to make it through life like everyone else. The amount of hate and bigotry online is vastly underestimated. I have kids showing me hundreds of negative messages and you think this does not have an effect on people? Seriously?

@mariaangelova8275 Жыл бұрын

This makes perfect sense, unfortunately.

@ianchandley Жыл бұрын

It’s interesting that “traditional” social ills like teen pregnancy and drunk driving has declined since the start of social media. One would celebrate these “victories” but when compared to the other problems that have arisen because of social media, one could be forgiven for wishing that they would come back….

@milascave2 Жыл бұрын

Um, no.

@Matlacha_Painter Жыл бұрын

14:58 “labeled “ is an expression of socioeconomic prejudice.

@lohphat Жыл бұрын

You won't get this sort of human interest and honesty from Fox Entertainment.

@ceciliavillalobos9837 Жыл бұрын

Face the facts, the youth in our Country have no real hope that this Country will be able to give them the right to a American dream. For years I watch kids fight to get h8gh grades they are keeping GPA, A are the intended goal. With the fight to keep in school most need to hold jobs, then there is college wow if they get help for cost, can they eat keep a bed to get good rest. I've seen children going to school from shelters, sleeping in cars with mother and father holding low paying jobs, part time hours only, well they don't need to have a health plan for part time ect. If a two parent home (car) hold jobs and they can't find a place they can afford. How and where is the possible American Dream, I know it's possible but most of us get no breaks. I knew nothing about credit and why tax re s help us how without credit u can't get jobs, we are on the way.out on top of know I NG what's going on with the coming treats on this world they know who is hold the end for us its worse than being attacked but to be told it never happened, that's our Country with the capital criminals. They never fix anything just keep us out of reach of breaking down the walls

@nrs6956 Жыл бұрын

Firm believer in birth control,. Thank you. Great job Michelle.

@nicholasmaryns3444 Жыл бұрын

Climate change. That's the reason. Was barely mentioned here.

@lindawellner5415 Жыл бұрын

Computer activates reticulated activating system...makes sleep deprovation psychosis just like Columbine

@terrydillon9323 Жыл бұрын

Sometimes I feel parents have to work too many hours and days a week and you add commute time you are talking a 11 hr. day . When you get home you are tired and you have chores around the house to do before the next day and you do not have time to laugh and play with your children, children need that. There is a time for work and a time for play. America is all about too much work . A four day work week for the general population would be good. Our children are suffering. Corporations can survive without working people to death. Plus, we should help other country’s where we can, but we can’t be expected to safe the world with our tax money, our people need that tax money here at home.