This might be controversial but three out of four listed reasons where always there. The only thing that’s changed in past 10-20 years is access to social media. Years ago, when I was a teenager, we had academic pressure, family dynamics and global events. And somehow majority of us got though it. Nowadays, social media creates a crooked image of how life should look like and it puts pressure on young minds.
But there’s one thing missing from the blog post - helicopter parenting. Kids live in a bubble created by their parents. When being exposed to a real world, young people are not equipped with needed skills to survive the outside world.
This might be controversial but three out of four listed reasons where always there. The only thing that’s changed in past 10-20 years is access to social media. Years ago, when I was a teenager, we had academic pressure, family dynamics and global events. And somehow majority of us got though it. Nowadays, social media creates a crooked image of how life should look like and it puts pressure on young minds.
But there’s one thing missing from the blog post - helicopter parenting. Kids live in a bubble created by their parents. When being exposed to a real world, young people are not equipped with needed skills to survive the outside world.