Resumen de Is life today bad for teens?
It's a tough time to be a teen, with cyberbullying, exam stress and a selfie culture that piles on the pressure to always look good. Perhaps it is little wonder newspaper headlines talk about a burgeoning crisis in our children's mental health. Self-harm and depression are reported to be soaring. A survey by the UK's National Union of Students found eight out of 10 people in higher education say they have had problems with mental health in the past year. There are signs the rise is real, even if the size of the change is being overstated, says Simon Wessely, the past president of the UK's Royal College of Psychiatrists. Clearly, something is happening, he says. There is a change. Indeed, not all the evidence points to a crisis. Among the under-30s, rates of suicide, which would seem to be an important measure of serious distress, have been stable since the 1990s, according to the UK's Office for National Statistics
