And if the mental health crisis in teens is the parents’ fault?

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In recent months, numerous studies have been released that reveal that adolescents in this country have serious mental problems.
Anxiety, depression, isolation, eating disorders are some of the problems that youth in the United States experience daily.
Some reports blame the pandemic, others, social networks and the high demands to be well seen by their friends or colleagues.
However, these days, a specialist has added a new element.
What if family life is a reflection of what your children experience? If parents are anxious or depressed, so will their children, he says.
“But there’s a factor that’s received insufficient attention in the debate over external factors in teenage suffering: What if the call is also coming from inside the house? What if parents are inadvertently contributing to their own kids’ pain?” writes David French in the New York Times.
“Just as there is a depressing familiarity to parents’ conversations about their children, there is a similar familiarity to kids’ conversations about their parents,” he adds.
In 2021 nearly 60 percent of teenage girls reported feeling “persistent sadness”… Overall, 44 percent of teenagers reported “persistent feelings of sadness or hopelessness,” according to The Washington Post, an increase from 26 percent in 2009.
The same year that 44 percent of teenagers reported suffering from serious sadness, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 41.5 percent of adults reported “recent symptoms of an anxiety or depressive disorder,” an increase from an already high baseline of 36.4 percent just months before.
Deaths of despair — the name for deaths due to suicide, drug abuse or alcohol poisoning — have particularly afflicted white middle-aged men, and the numbers overall are simply staggering, especially since they started to increase sharply in 2000.
This is a problem for everyone, not just for young people. If we look further, we will find that the family unit influences a lot so that the problem with mental health increases.