The Anxious Generation

THE NO 1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Jonathan Haidt is a modern day prophet disguised as a psychologist He points the way forward to a brighter stronger future for us all Susan Cain Compelling readable and incredibly chilling remarkably persuasive Telegraph Urgent and essential Guardian One of the most terrifying books I have read some of the statistics Haidt quotes are truly shocking Evening StandardAfter more than a decade of stability or improvement the mental health of adolescents in many countries around the world deteriorated suddenly in the early 2010s Why have rates of depression anxiety self harm and suicide risen so sharply more than doubling in many cases In this book Social Psychologist Jonathan Haidt argues that the decline of free play in childhood and the rise of smartphone usage among adolescents are the twin sources of increased mental distress among teenagers Haidt delves into the latest psychological and biological research to show how between 2010 and 2015 childhood and adolescence got rewired As teens traded in their flip phones for smartphones packed with social media apps time online soared while time engaging face to face with friends and family plummeted and so did mental health This profound shift took plac