Young adults are anxious, and Common Sense Media has fresh statistics to prove it. (Not that anyone who knows an adolescent or two needed to be convinced.) What is it about this young generation that has made their mental state like one permanently on the verge of a breakdown?
Undoubtedly, some of this is merely the plight of being a young adult in the modern world, a plight multiple generations have by now managed to survive. Yet there is also a stark decline since the last cohort escaped into adulthood: Among 18 to 26 year olds surveyed by Common Sense Media in 2003 and 2013, more than 50 percent said their mental health was excellent. In 2023, just 15 percent said the same.
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