2023-11-28 18:20:28
In accordance with a new study performed at 27,572 youths in Australia and published in the scientific journal PNAS, this age group faces a worsening of mental health. In this regard, research leader Richard Morris, from the University of Sydney, pointed out that the poor mental health It was more common among those born in the 1990s and, to a lesser extent, at the end of the 1980s.
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According to data from El Paísthe trend of poor mental health What the Australian team observed coincides with the results observed in other countries around the world, where a greater deterioration is also seen in the generations youths.
In the United States, it was seen that among those born in the nineties and eighties of the last century there were higher levels of anxiety and incidence of suicide, differences that are maintained when the category of gender or socioeconomic group is added. In the United Kingdom, depressive symptoms are more common among adolescents born in the 2000s than among people born in the previous decade, for example. But why this?
Main factors of depression in young people
Social cohesion, social networks, bullying and economic uncertainty are some of the factors that burden older generations. youthsdetails José Luis Ayuso Mateos, professor of psychiatry at the Autonomous University of Madrid, who did not participate in the study for the country.
“We have seen that people born in the 90s have worse mental health for their age than any of the previous generations and that they do not show improvement when they get older as happens in those previous generations,” explains specialist Morris.
The mental health problems of the new generations fall on various socio-economic factors and new technologies (Photo: Canva)
According to the specialist, there were various factors that the adolescents experienced and young people of the eighties and nineties, such as the great financial crisis of 2008, the prevalent use of social networks, the increase in natural disasters related to climate change, or the awareness of the stigma around mental health some of the factors that favored (and to date continue to do so) the increase of a poor mental health.
Mexico, a country with a high rate of young people with problems of mental health
It is Mexico, the number of young people between 12 and 24 years old with depression is approximately 2.5 million, and 9.9 out of every 100 thousand have had suicidal ideas, according to UNAM specialists. Studies Previous studies by the institution maintain that anxiety and depression are the main factors that this age group faces, so it is important to provide them with medical attention.
The Mexican Psychoanalytic Association AC. It also points out that half of mental illnesses begin before the age of 14 and in most cases they are not detected or treated in time, since sometimes it takes up to a decade for those affected to receive medical attention, leading the person to to an uncertain future.
To prevent mental health problems, it is important that parents and guardians monitor the behavior of their children and, if abnormal behavior is detected, seek medical attention as soon as possible to raise adolescents and adults who have sufficient tools to cope. your day to day.
To have better mental health, it is necessary to take care of it from childhood (Photo: Canva)
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