Jonathan Haidt

And right around 2012, 2013, you get an elbow.

And then those graphs line go shooting up.

It's not for everything.

It's not that Gen Z says we're messed up on everything.

It's very focused on anxiety and depression, what we call internalizing disorders.

And it's the same thing for self-harm, including hard numbers on hospitalizations.

If you look at the CDC tracks, why people go into hospitals,

All of a sudden, starting around 2012, 2013, the number of girls especially who are checking into an emergency room because they cut themselves so severely goes up 50 to 150% depending on the subgroup that you're looking at.

So we have some pretty hard data.

I also came at it because as a college professor, around 2014, 2015, a lot of us noticed

wait, something is really strange here.

We thought we understood college students.

We thought we understood the millennials.

They enjoy jokes about sex.

They wanna have fun in class.

They wanna go out drinking.

But all of a sudden, the students that were coming in around 2014, 2015, much more anxious, much more easily offended.

Words like microaggressions and bias response teams, trigger warnings, they weren't there in 2012 and they were everywhere by 2015.

So it was direct observation.

It was federal surveys.