Candice Odgers

And it's simply not the case that we're in a crisis.

Now I'm going to get to the part where I am concerned.

While we've seen these improvements in externalizing behaviors, we've seen young people reporting that they're more anxious about the world that they live in, that they're sadder than they have been previously.

They report all kinds of concerns in those spaces.

And in the United States, since 2008, so right after the Great Recession, we've seen an uptick in youth suicide.

And this probably shouldn't be surprising because since 1999,

suicide among adults in this country has been increasing.

And so it's leveled off recently, but we have just seen adults in the United States in pretty serious distress.

Yeah.

So one of the things that's very clear is that adult mental health and parental mental health is the biggest and I will say like the largest predictor of children's mental health.

And so we've seen adults in crisis in this country for quite some time and it got amplified after the Great Recession.

There's a new study that came out in JAMA and essentially shows that between 2011 and 2021, we've seen a doubling of deaths among parents due to firearms and drug overdoses.

And those are extreme outcomes and are really the tip of the iceberg in terms of thinking about

the kind of distress and issues that adults today are dealing with.

And so when we look at that period and people say, well, social media increases, like what else could possibly be happening?

You know, we have to have a discussion about adult mental health.

We can't see the whole picture without understanding the suffering of adults around young people.

Yeah, so a lot has been happening, right?

And we've seen an increase in school shootings, right, during this time as well.

You know, we've seen a lot of kind of movements.