A recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences revealed that people born in the 1990s are reportedly not recovering from their mental health struggles as they age due to several factors.
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Data collected by researchers at the University of Sydney revealed a significant decline in the mental welfare of each successive generation since the 1950s, as reported by the New York Post. Their results state that mental health challenges have significantly impacted younger generations along with those who are close to reaching old age. “Our data not only shows a continuing decline in the mental health of the current crop of young people but continues to affect older generations today heading into their 40s and 50s. We are not seeing the rebound out of young adulthood that previous generations saw as they aged,” said lead author Dr. Richard Morris, a senior research fellow at the University of Sydney.
Morris also said that the data used to focus on the declining mental health of school-aged children and teens where it is expected for their mental health to improve as they grow older but the current data shows a different pattern.
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The study was initially conducted to understand why the mental health of Australians has been on the decline since 2010, and it was studied to see if it was just a trend in the post-millennial generation or a more serious indicator of a permanent trend. Results showed that the younger generation is suffering from the most mental health complications, and those born in the 1990s are not improving as they age.
“The findings from this study highlight that it is the poorer mental health of Millennials that is driving the apparent deterioration in population-level mental health.”
Social media was also listed as a factor for the decline in mental health, and researchers say it has become a source of increasing anxiety, depression, and addiction along with the Meexploitation of minors and increase in emotional abuse, and toxic relationships. Climate change was listed as a secondary factor because younger generations are losing hope about the current state of the world.
Researchers stated the mental wellbeing of Gen Z and Gen Alpha is unclear.
