Hohe Jugendsterblichkeitsraten stellen eine „aufkommende Krise“ dar, warnt eine globale Gesundheitsstudie. Alkohol, Selbstmord und Verletzungen am Steuer nehmen bei Teenagern und jungen Erwachsenen zu, obwohl die Raten insgesamt sinken. In Nordamerika hing dies „mit der Zunahme von Angstzuständen und Depressionen bei jungen Menschen, insbesondere bei Frauen“, zusammen.
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/oct/12/global-burden-disease-study-high-youth-death-rates-drugs-alcohol-suicide-emerging-crisis
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Social media are the new drug of choice. I recommend the recent Startalk episode exactly about this issue.
Fertility is dropping worldwide and teenagers dying?We are doomed?
It’s almost like if you take all of our rights and healthcare away it has a negative impact.
Cant imagine why. A whole generation being told they have no future no matter how hard they work and there is no point to living.
I’m not surprised. I’m in the states, female, chronically ill. I’ve attempted suicide. Mostly because nobody has believed me. I’ll do it again too. Honestly it is pretty comforting knowing how and when I will die.
Interesting last line. Usually suicide is disproportionately males.
I’m confused. All mortality is down 66.6%, a few categories are up a little bit in some years but declining recently. How is this an emerging crisis?
Not trying to take away from how we can continue to improve but this seems like alarmism to call attention to their paper (which is good) that shows the opposite of their alarmism…
Rising fascism across the West, unaffordable healthcare, Nazis snatching kids off the street in unmarked vans, non-existent housing markets, dead-end jobs threatened by oligarchs and their AI toys, the environment being destroyed, communities struggling, an entire generation of young men becoming red-pilled by rape culture. Yeah. It’s almost enough to be depressed about.
A friend’s kid tried to commit suicide recently and it was a very serious attempt that by some miracle they survived relatively unscathed. No suicidal ideation just a whim because they were feeling pressure from a lot of things. Social media in terms of of exposure to ideals that aren’t real or realistic. Self imposed expectations and feelings that shouldn’t have been enough appear to have added up to the attempt. Basically ever parent’s nightmare scenario.
They’re getting help and a lot of therapy for the rest of the family as well because is was so traumatic. Who knows what was the thinking and the outpouring of support hopefully makes an impression because it’s truly heartwarming seeing all the people like counselors, teachers and friends who have stepped up because they love the kid.
The young people I interact with are remarkably resilient to the „I-got-mine-so-fuck-you“ attitude that seems to be ascendant right now, but it does take its toll. Having hope for the future is really difficult at the current moment.
I was told alcohol consumption was way down among young people
We are creating new boomers sadly.
What, you mean eat your young is not a good policy?
With alcohol, theres a huge culture change, with a couple generations back would regularly drink low alcohol content beers. Now, many young adults dont drink at all, but when they do, its usually high alcohol levels, with some flavor that masks how drunk your getting. Combine that with stunningly few options to get home except the car u came in, with few buses, light rail & bikes lanes & thats a recipe for drunk driving.
„particularly women“ – so like how the maternal death rates in young women have shot up in red states just like everyone predicted would happen when Roe v Wade got overturned?
That’s backwards to everything I’ve heard about rates of kids/teenagers engaging in risky behavior. That’s been tending down [for a decade or two](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277953622009224). Is this just a return to historical norms?
A whole generation is priced out of a future and the potus is doing crypto rugs and insider trading
people, do not let your young kids have a phone or be online until they are 18 or something
unless you want a world full of idiots