Young people are struggling with mental health and relationships, but there are small shifts in beliefs and behaviors that could help.

Young people are struggling with mental health and relationships, but there are small shifts in beliefs and behaviors that could help.

  • derzeppo@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    4 days ago

    In the past, happiness across the adult lifespan took on a “U-shaped” curve. Young adults were among the most content with their lives, happiness dipped in middle age and then rose again among older adults. In recent years, this decades-old curve has shifted into a straight, upward line. Older adults remain happy, and middle age remains middling, but young adults are now less happy than either group.

    Yeah, we know why. Decades of reduced social investment at the behest of a incredibly large and selfish cohort that is remaining in power far longer than any generation before them.