{"id":11218,"date":"2024-08-13T22:32:01","date_gmt":"2024-08-13T22:32:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=11218"},"modified":"2024-08-13T23:24:10","modified_gmt":"2024-08-13T23:24:10","slug":"why-youth-mental-health-is-on-the-decline-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=11218","title":{"rendered":"Why Youth Mental Health Is on the Decline: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Global trends in economics, climate and technology are weighing on young adults, a report finds. It recommends overhauling how we approach mental health care.<\/p>\n

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Chlo\u00e9 Johnson, 22, has been feeling hopeless lately.<\/p>\n

She\u2019s struggling to focus on classes at her local community college in Dallas while also working full-time, making $18 an hour as a receptionist.<\/p>\n

Her car broke down, so the $500 that she had managed to save will now go toward a down payment for a used vehicle.<\/p>\n

And she was recently passed over for a promotion.<\/p>\n

\u201cRight now it just feels, like, very suffocating to be in this position,\u201d said Ms. Johnson, who was diagnosed last year with bipolar II disorder, depression and A.D.H.D. \u201cI\u2019m not getting anywhere or making any progress.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s an endless loop: Ms. Johnson\u2019s mental health has worsened because of her financial difficulties and her financial problems have grown, partly because of the cost of mental health treatment but also because her disorders have made it more difficult to earn a college degree that could lead to a more lucrative job.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cI\u2019ve failed several classes,\u201d she said. \u201cI burn out really easily, so I just give up.\u201d<\/p>\n

The mental health<\/a> of adolescents and young adults has been on the decline and it\u2019s partly because of \u201charmful megatrends\u201d like financial inequality, according to a new report<\/a> published on Tuesday in the scientific journal The Lancet Psychiatry. The global trends affecting younger generations also include wage theft<\/a>, unregulated social media<\/a>, job insecurity<\/a> and climate change<\/a>, all of which are creating \u201ca bleak present and future for young people in many countries,\u201d according to the authors.<\/p>\n