Dr. Lucy Foulkes

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The Rest Is Politics · Struggling or Snowflakes? The Gen Z Mental Health Story · 21 May 2026 podcast

There's a lot of explanations for what's happening and lots of things are changing in parallel.

So more people are reporting that they have symptoms in surveys.

More people are seeking help for these problems and more people are getting diagnosed.

And it's not straightforward why that is happening.

It's a total cultural transformation in talking about these problems.

So that's one component of it.

But then also there's the component that things are

and these explanations aren't competing, that things really are worse and that there are factors for young people that are different now relative to generations in the past.

People have been interested in mental health and even, you know, reporting that mental health problems are increasing for, you know, 100 years.

But certainly in the last 20, 30 years, there has been this explosion in interest in mental health and in

framing our difficulties and our challenges in the language of mental health and the language of psychiatry that has become very normalized today.

And it wasn't happening in the 90s.

Really, if you were going to use the language of psychiatry, really, that was for people who were very unwell.

And you really didn't want to talk about it openly.

That has completely shifted now.

Generally, if people are unhappy, they're more likely to talk about being depressed if they use terms like OCD and PTSD very casually.

And actually, it seems like these...

psychiatric disorders now have a kind of parallel use.

So there is a lot of understanding about what these disorders really are because people have educated themselves via the internet.

So people are now accurately saying that they have OCD, for example, but also they are casually using this language almost as kind of

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