The US is also exporting talented people. I know a lot who are leaving, mainly for Europe, though a few are (in my view, foolishly) going to Dubai.

I’m pretty sure the anxiety the U.S. is spreading might involve teenagers, but doesn’t involve anyone under 18 and you didn’t have to speak English to get the crippling anxiety from learning about it on the first Wednesday in November.

If smartphone use is global, why is the strongest evidence of surging teen anxiety mostly in English-speaking countries and not in their less-English-speaking neighbors?

My answer is that although mental illness is global, the experience of mental illness cannot be separated from culture. If there is a surge of Anglospheric gloom among teenagers, we have to study the culture that young people are consuming with their technology. In the past generation, the English-speaking world, led by the U.S., has experimented with a novel approach to mental health that has expanded the ranks of the “worried well,” while social media has surrounded young people with reminders to obsess over their anxieties and traumas, just as U.S. news media have inundated audiences with negativity to capture their fleeting attention.

As an American citizen living in Europe since July of 2022 and maintaining dual residency, I posit that “quiet desperation is the English way”, but we Americans do it “loud and proud”.

Today’s kids are so weak. Not me, I work a 60 hr week and drink a 12 pack a night. That’s it. Maybe grill on the 4th.

Does anybody actually read t he articles?

I thought it was crippling depression. https://youtu.be/ysmLA5TqbIY?si=S6TH8pV2zdgnywMC