Shoaib Gamote

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

She's an Oxford University psychologist who specializes in adolescent mental health.

I asked her why she thinks young people's mental health diagnoses have skyrocketed over the last 20 years.

There's more information about mental health online than ever before, but might that also have led to more people self-diagnosing with mental health problems?

So there's all this awareness of mental health now, but is there a risk that we might start going backwards in the conversation?

It's really interesting to hear from Lucy about her research and some of the challenges, unintended as they might be, that are now arising when it comes to how we deal with young people's mental health.

There's a real danger of talking too much to older people about young people.

So our next guest is Shoaib Gamote.

He's 26 years old, he's a researcher, and he's been traveling the UK.

What's great about his work is that he's been speaking to his own generation about how they think and feel about everything that is going on in the world around them.

He's compiled two reports.

One is inside the mind of a 16-year-old, and the other is inside the mind of a NEET.

That's someone who's not in education, employment,

or training, we had some really, really interesting conversations about the rejection economy, about learned helplessness, and about a place in Europe that he thinks might just be able to show Britain the way forward.

Shoaib Gamot, welcome to the Gen Z story for The Rest Is Politics.

What is going on and what made you decide to spend your time looking into this?

And you just described this nihilism that you picked up when you were doing the first report.

Wouldn't normally expect 16-year-olds to be particularly nihilistic about the future, which is essentially feeling like there's no point to work hard.

There's no point in doing anything scorched earth, like nothing really matters or means anything.

What were you picking up from them?

Why were they telling you that that's how they were feeling?

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