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The Upstream Cause of the Youth Mental Health Crisis is the Loss of Community (www.afterbabel.com)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Note: their definition of "community" is quite problematic in many ways...

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

The answer to that one is obvious - to create free facilities and let communities form themselves. Right now youth centres have disappeared, teens are hurried out of any gathering space, play areas are regimented out of any joy or priced to prohibition and you end up with young people being left with the activity options of isolation, or group activities that are antisocial or involve substance abuse

[–] [email protected] -1 points 9 months ago

create free facilities and let communities form themselves.

They don't form themselves (or at least that's a rare exception), and I think by now the teenagers are so fixated on online interactions that they will have a hard time adapting to, let alone create such spaces themselves.