Dr. Lucy Foulkes

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54 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 21 May

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

And there absolutely is a backlash because people are becoming

worried about saying they have self-diagnosis.

And you see this in forums online.

They say, like, I think I might have this.

I'm not trying to self-diagnose because they know that that backlash is coming.

And there's also been some interesting data showing that public attitudes towards people with mental health problems improved from about 2009 to about 2019, 2020.

And then it started to decrease again.

So you can see the line on the graph very clearly peaking, and then it's starting to go back down again.

So I think that really does speak to the possibility that people are feeling saturated by these ideas.

They're feeling fed up of people using this language.

too readily and they're treating their peers with scepticism and scorn for doing it, which is a massive problem because we still haven't actually resolved the problem, which is that people experiencing these problems are not getting access to support that actually helps them feel better.

So it's like we've had this awareness or the willingness to talk about it.

And then the backlash has started before we've actually improved the problem.

So, yes, it's a massive issue, I think, at the moment.

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