Responses to Skeptics

Changes in Parents’ Mental Health Did Not Drive the Adolescent Mental Health Crisis

Jean Twenge rebuts another skeptical argument

May 2 •

Suicide Rates Are Now Higher Among Young Adults Than the Middle-Aged

It’s time to update statements about age and suicide

Apr 24 •

The Girls Are Not Alright: Responses to Three Claims that the Youth Mental Health Crisis Is Exaggerated

Why changes in stigma and self-reporting procedures cannot explain the international decline of adolescent girls’ mental health.

Apr 11 •

Yes, Social Media Really Is a Cause of the Epidemic of Teenage Mental Illness

Two major problems with a review in Nature

Apr 9 •

Is Economic Deprivation the Real Cause of The Adolescent Mental Health Crisis?

Jean Twenge responds to the Nature review of The Anxious Generation

Apr 2 •

The Youth Mental Health Crisis is International, Unless You Rely on a Flawed International Dataset (The GBD)

Researchers need to stop using the Global Burden of Disease study when analyzing mental health trends

Jan 3 •

Here are 13 Other Explanations for the Adolescent Mental Health Crisis. None of Them Work.

Only smartphones plus social media can explain the international collapse in the early 2010s.

Oct 24, 2023 •

Why Some Researchers Think I’m Wrong About Social Media and Mental Illness

Six propositions for evaluating the evidence.

Apr 17, 2023 •

Academic Pressure Cannot Explain the Mental Illness Epidemic

It’s not the homework. It’s the phones.

Mar 15, 2023 •

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