A Theory on Why Teen Depression and Anxiety Are Skyrocketing | Intellectual Takeout
"New data highlighted by the New York Times shows that
hospital admissions for suicidal teens have doubled in the last decade.
... While the article describes various tactics schools and therapists use to address mounting teenage anxiety and depression, one question not asked is this:
If schooling is causing these serious problems for teenagers, then why are they going?
...former editor-in-chief of Psychology Today Dr. Robert Epstein explains that
adolescence is largely a western societal construct.
“In more than a hundred cultures around the world, teens have no such difficulties—no depression, no suicide, no crime, no drug use, no conflict with parents, Epstein writes.
“Many cultures don’t even have a word for the period of life we call adolescence.
Why are American teens in such turmoil?”
Epstein goes on to suggest that much of this teenage angst results from the
“infantilization of teens” as they are confined and enclosed for much of their adolescence, and their actions and thoughts are controlled by others..."
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Link safe, goes to Rod Dreher, who gives it the fisking it well deserves, and notes that its author, Alexis Grenell “is a Democratic Party strategist. 
