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The International Mental Health Crisis

How Psychological Distress Globally Accelerated Among Youth During the COVID-19 Pandemic
A Three-Decade Perspective on Escalating International Psychological Distress in Adolescence
 • 
Karen Schrijvers
 and 
Thomas Potrebny
9
The Global Loss of the U-Shaped Curve of Happiness
Happiness used to be U-shaped by age, with middle age the least happy. Not anymore. Young people are now the least happy.
 • 
David Blanchflower
 and 
Alex Bryson
50
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.
 • 
Zach Rausch
65
The Youth Mental Health Crisis is International Part 4: Europe
Why girls from wealthy, secular, and individualistic nations were hit hardest.
 • 
Zach Rausch
, 
Thomas Potrebny
, and 
Jon Haidt
51
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
 • 
Zach Rausch
29
Suicide Rates Are up for Gen Z Across the Anglosphere, Especially for Girls
It’s not just anxiety, depression, and self-harm.
 • 
Zach Rausch
 and 
Jon Haidt
106
The Teen Mental Illness Epidemic is International, Part 2: The Nordic Nations
For Teens, Scandinavia is No Longer The Happiest Place On Earth.
 • 
Jon Haidt
 and 
Zach Rausch
80
The Teen Mental Health Crisis is International, Part 1: The Anglosphere
Why did mental health fall off a cliff at the same time and in the same way in the USA, The UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand? Part 1 of 3.
 • 
Zach Rausch
 and 
Jon Haidt
179
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