The Anxious Generation. How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness

A must-read for all parents: the generation-defining investigation into the collapse of youth mental health in the era of smartphones, social media, and big tech—and a plan for a healthier, freer childhood.   After more than a decade of stability or improvement, the mental health of adolescents plunged in the early 2010s. Rates of depression, anxiety, self-harm, and suicide rose sharply, more than doubling on many measures. Why?   In The Anxious Generation, social psychologist Jona