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Why is mental health so bad among the young? In conversation with Abigail Shrier

Why is mental health so bad among the young? In conversation with Abigail Shrier

Nick Spencer speaks with Wall Street Journal writer Abigail Shrier. 21/05/2024

Pretty much every index for the mental health of young people in Britain and the US in particular is pointing in the wrong direction. More anxiety, more depression, more therapy, more medication, more suicide.

Why? What is going on here? And why is it that the vast increase in spending on mental health – on counselling, therapy and drugs over recent decades seems to have made no difference whatsoever?

In this week’s episode, Nick Spencer speaks to Abigail Shrier about her book Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren’t Growing Up

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Nick Spencer

Nick Spencer

Nick is Senior Fellow at Theos. He is the author of The Landscapes of Science and Religion (OUP, 2025), Playing God: Science, Religion and the Future of Humanity (2024), and Magisteria: the entangled histories of science and religion (Oneworld, 2023). Nick is host of the podcast Reading Our Times.

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Posted 21 May 2024

Mental Health, Podcast, Reading Our Times

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