Why Are American Teens So Unhappy? How Do We Solve This Crisis?

Plain English with Derek Thompson

The Ringer

News Commentary, News

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2023

⏱️ 53 minutes

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This is our second installment of happiness week on the Plain English podcast. On Tuesday, I spoke with the directors of the Harvard Study of Adult Development about what makes a good life, based on their 80-year longitudinal study. Today’s episode is about the phenomenon of rising teenage unhappiness. What's actually happening? Why is it happening? What theories make sense, and what theories don't? How can we fix this problem? Today's guest is Matthew Biel, the chief of child and adolescent psychiatry at Georgetown University Medical Center, and chief medical officer at Fort Health. Host: Derek Thompson Guest: Matthew Biel Producer: Devon Manze Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:22.4	This episode is the second installment of Happiness Week on the Planning List podcast.
0:28.0	On Tuesday, I spoke with the directors of the Harvard study on adult development about
0:32.6	what makes a good life based on their 80 year longitudinal study.
0:37.6	And if you missed that episode, I would very strongly encourage you to go back and listen
0:41.6	to it.
0:42.6	Today's episode is about the phenomenon of rising and rising and rising teenage unhappiness.
0:52.4	Other contains, especially girls and especially kids who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual
0:59.2	or questioning are engulfed in historic rates of anxiety and depression.
1:06.1	And everybody seems to think they know why.
1:08.6	Some people say it's the phones.
1:10.5	Others say it's school pressure.
1:12.5	Some people say it's the parents fault.
1:14.3	Some people say the world is just terrible and young people are merely paying attention.
1:20.1	I'm going to get to theories in a second and we're going to talk about theories a lot
1:23.7	in this episode.
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