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"Amplify (Contributing, adding, making it powerfully present) to the existing trends, but also newly created ones, a global pandemic and an unprecedented period of isolation, and suddenly, the remarked rise o teenage sadness doesn't feel all that mysterious, does it?" (Thompson). 

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"Amplify (Contributing, adding, making it powerfully present) to the existing trends, but also newly created ones, a global pandemic and an unprecedented period of isolation, and suddenly, the remarked rise o teenage sadness doesn't feel all that mysterious, does it?" (Thompson). 

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Social media places in every teen's pocket a quantified battle royal for scarce popularity that can displace hours of sleep and make teens, especially girls, feel worse about their body and life (lifestyle).

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Social media places in every teen's pocket a quantified battle royal for scarce popularity that can displace hours of sleep and make teens, especially girls, feel worse about their body and life (lifestyle).

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The internet exposes teenagers not only to supportive friendships but also to cyber-bullying, bullying, threats, despairing conversations about mental health, and a slurry/mixture of unsolvable global problems -- a "carnival of negativity" 

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The internet exposes teenagers not only to supportive friendships but also to cyber-bullying, bullying, threats, despairing conversations about mental health, and a slurry/mixture of unsolvable global problems -- a "carnival of negativity" 

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Outwardly, teens are growing slower; but online, they're growing up faster. 

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Outwardly, teens are growing slower; but online, they're growing up faster. 

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Time spent with friends, driving, dating, and working summer jobs all decline. College pressure exponentially skyrockets. 

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Time spent with friends, driving, dating, and working summer jobs all decline. College pressure exponentially skyrockets. 

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Childhood becomes more insular (limited, narrow-minded, and restricted -- unable to accept foreign ideas -- detached from diversity and the acknowledgment of the society they live in -- having an attitude that expresses a negative reflection of the world (community and/or society as a whole) they live in

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Childhood becomes more insular (limited, narrow-minded, and restricted -- unable to accept foreign ideas -- detached from diversity and the acknowledgment of the society they live in -- having an attitude that expresses a negative reflection of the world (community and/or society as a whole) they live in

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The development of "Emotional Resilience" and the ability to adapt to the rapidly growing world environment and stresses. 

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The development of "Emotional Resilience" and the ability to adapt to the rapidly growing world environment and stresses. 

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Although "accommodating" a teenager's difficulty to tolerate a specific issue may be possibly a good solution, however, it lacks the fundamental development factors to build, prepare, and protect a child in the face of adversity. As they grow, adapting is one of the most important ways to cope, manage, and release negative emotions and the inevitable feelings of stress. Without "exploring" and/or "discovering", it becomes more difficult for a child to cope/manage their negative emotions, but also leads towards a more likely chance of experiencing severe to extreme levels of anxiety in the future. 

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Although "accommodating" a teenager's difficulty to tolerate a specific issue may be possibly a good solution, however, it lacks the fundamental development factors to build, prepare, and protect a child in the face of adversity. As they grow, adapting is one of the most important ways to cope, manage, and release negative emotions and the inevitable feelings of stress. Without "exploring" and/or "discovering", it becomes more difficult for a child to cope/manage their negative emotions, but also leads towards a more likely chance of experiencing severe to extreme levels of anxiety in the future. 

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Or if a boy won't eat vegetables, feeding him nothing but turkey load for four years. 

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Or if a boy won't eat vegetables, feeding him nothing but turkey load for four years. 

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If a girl is afraid of dogs, an "accommodation" would be keeping her away from every friend's house with a dog. 

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If a girl is afraid of dogs, an "accommodation" would be keeping her away from every friend's house with a dog. 

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These activities help provide, build, and establish the important abilities to tolerate and handle discomfort to a great degree. Furthermore, being able to integrate discipline, accountability, and self-responsibility into their daily lives but also be competent enough to effectively recognize and reflect on their actions.  

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These activities help provide, build, and establish the important abilities to tolerate and handle discomfort to a great degree. Furthermore, being able to integrate discipline, accountability, and self-responsibility into their daily lives but also be competent enough to effectively recognize and reflect on their actions.  

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Today's children are less likely to drive, get a summer job, or be asked to do chores.

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Today's children are less likely to drive, get a summer job, or be asked to do chores.

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Children are growing up slower than they used to.

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Children are growing up slower than they used to.

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"Anxious parents that seek to cover or protect their children from risk and danger are unintentionally transferring their anxiety to their children" (Kate Julian). 

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"Anxious parents that seek to cover or protect their children from risk and danger are unintentionally transferring their anxiety to their children" (Kate Julian). 

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Extreme amounts of pressure placed on young teenagers - adults to do well in their academic studies 

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Extreme amounts of pressure placed on young teenagers - adults to do well in their academic studies 

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High-income parents are spending more time preparing their kids for the competitive college admission 

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High-income parents are spending more time preparing their kids for the competitive college admission 

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Being unable to manage such a burden further leads to an unbearable way of facing the truths, false truths/reasons, and/or being persuaded in such a way destroys the option of exploring and discovering help to cope with their struggles. 

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Being unable to manage such a burden further leads to an unbearable way of facing the truths, false truths/reasons, and/or being persuaded in such a way destroys the option of exploring and discovering help to cope with their struggles. 

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"Girls, more than boys, are socialized to internalize distress, meaning that they tend to collapse in on themselves by becoming depressed or anxious" (Thompson). 

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"Girls, more than boys, are socialized to internalize distress, meaning that they tend to collapse in on themselves by becoming depressed or anxious" (Thompson). 

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"Increased stress among young people is linked to increasing levels of sadness" (Thompson). 

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"Increased stress among young people is linked to increasing levels of sadness" (Thompson). 

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"In the last decade teenagers have become increasingly stressed by concerns about gun violence, climate change, and the political environment." she wrote in an email" (Thompson). 

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"In the last decade teenagers have become increasingly stressed by concerns about gun violence, climate change, and the political environment." she wrote in an email" (Thompson). 

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"This is important to say clearly: Aloneness isn't the same as loneliness, and loneliness isn't the same as depression. But more alone (including from heavy smartphone use) and more loneliness (including from school closures) might have combined to push up sadness among teenagers who need sociality to protect them from the pressures of a stressful world" (Thompson). 

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"This is important to say clearly: Aloneness isn't the same as loneliness, and loneliness isn't the same as depression. But more alone (including from heavy smartphone use) and more loneliness (including from school closures) might have combined to push up sadness among teenagers who need sociality to protect them from the pressures of a stressful world" (Thompson). 

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"Compared to their counterparts in the 2000s, today's teens are less likely to go out with their friends, get their driver's license, or play youth sports" (Steinberg, Thompson)

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"Compared to their counterparts in the 2000s, today's teens are less likely to go out with their friends, get their driver's license, or play youth sports" (Steinberg, Thompson)

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The declination of sleep from 2007 to 2019 by 30 percent. 

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The declination of sleep from 2007 to 2019 by 30 percent. 

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Fuels emotions such as depression, anxiety, uncertainty, sadness, hopelessness, and other pessimistic traits. 

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Fuels emotions such as depression, anxiety, uncertainty, sadness, hopelessness, and other pessimistic traits. 

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The inevitable struggle to manage and cope with the pressures of growing up

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The inevitable struggle to manage and cope with the pressures of growing up

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Hijack peer sensitivity and drive obsessive thinking about body image and popularity (forced) 

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Hijack peer sensitivity and drive obsessive thinking about body image and popularity (forced) 

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Judgment of friends, teachers, and the digital crowd

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Judgment of friends, teachers, and the digital crowd

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The wide range of internal, external, visceral, and self-conscious abilities to recognize and visualize yourself. Furthermore, as an individual, having a clear reflection and introspective idea that is present when considering in committing to a certain act subjectively or objectively.

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After reading the given articles, there is still so much that is unexplored and more that needs to be discovered. The mental health issue has become prevalent to a point where a blind eye is turned against recognizing it. Exploitation, pure manipulation, self-gain, and the action of taking advantage play a factor in the reason why this mental health problem arises. Although teenagers in this generation are struggling to acknowledge the world they are living in, it is even more evident that future generations are prone to developing even more extreme, severe, and detrimental mental problems than the current generation. The existence of humanity and the humans that live in the world has become more complex and even more perplexing in the eyes of many young teenagers and upcoming young adults. The ill preparation and failure to provide attention to mental health have become too difficult for teenagers to find a way to cope with and manage their negative emotions. Whatever it may be, environmental, political, social, and/or technological, enforcing such ideologies on a teenager has become one of the main issues on why teens grow and build in negative beings. Additionally, these extreme measures mean that the world they live in is irritating, frustrating, and unbearable, and the inability to reflect and find a path that leads them to the end of the tunnel. Why is it that teenagers grow into deviants, criminals, and even rebellious toward the community/society they live in? May it be the mental-health issue that is interconnected to it all or is it something even deeper? Is there a deeper meaning to mental health that individuals such as myself fail to grasp and visualize? In essence, making young teenagers and young adults tolerate the world we live in by incorporating "emotional resilience" but also establishing the core fundamental developing factors that allow participating in activities that help grow the human mind into something adaptable and as strong as a fortress.

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A complex mixture of individualized/subjective experiences, physiological responses to the specific observations/experiences, and the behavioral/expressive response that is influenced by the specific events/situations/circumstances/incident. Being able to experience and comprehend in relation of others that is embedded within the human culture, existence, interaction, and socialization.

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prejudice that exists and present within an individual's tendency to favor a particular person, thing, or subject that comes into play. By unfairly supporting individualized opinions to influence the choice/action against or towards someone. However, such biases have positive and negative consequences that entails an individuals decision when it comes to the threat of their well-being or the preconceived idea that is unreasoned to a great degree.

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"In the past 40 years, American parents -- especially those with a college degree-- have nearly doubled the amount of time they spend coaching, chauffeuring tutoring, and otherwise helping their teenage children" (Thompson).

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The world is stressful -- and there is more news about the world's stressors

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The world is stressful -- and there is more news about the world's stressors

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"Lisa Damour, a clinical psychologist, and author told me that no single factor can account for the rise of teenage sadness. But she believes a part of the answer is that the world has become more stressful. Or, at least, teenagers' perception of the world seems to be causing them more stress." (Thompson)

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"Both Steinberg and Twenge stress that the biggest problem with social media might be not social media itself, but rather the activities that it replaces" (Thompson). Virtual reality replaces what physical reality offers when it comes to social interaction and communication. However, this is a great flaw and fails to incorporate social development and key personality traits to build a strong character of society.

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"But I think Twenge's strongest point is misunderstood, Social media isn't like rat poison, which is toxic to almost everyone. It's more like alcohol: a mildly addictive substance that can enhance social situations but can also lead to dependency and depression among minority users" (Thompson). Just like smartphones and different devices that offer different forms of communication within the virtual world (apps such as social media -- Instagram, TikTok, and other platforms to spread information about an individuals day) that disrupts the intrinsic development of character and personality in terms of the society and community an individual lives in.

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Four Propelling Factors that Lead to a possible Mental Health Illness/Crisis

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Four Propelling Factors that Lead to a possible Mental Health Illness/Crisis

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The style, art, social norms, values, materialistic traits, specific characteristic traits regarding adaptation to the surrounding environment, and contain diverse social groups (racial and religious) that use symbols and very obscure methods of living. Knowledge and learning abilities encompass how individuals would use language to communicate with others, develop a systematic way to proceed with their (social group, race, and ethnicities) existence, and is a universal understanding within humanity itself. Hobbies, practices, cuisines, music, and different types of cultures may be developed through how individuals interact, respond, and behave from their experiences and observations.

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The third fallacy presented is the Covid-19 pandemic was most likely the cause of today's mental health crisis and an overreaction to the disease. "Rising teenage sadness isn't a new trend, but rather the acceleration and broadening of a trend that clearly started before the pandemic," Laurence Steinberg, a psychologist at Temple University, told me. But he added: "We shouldn't ignore the pandemic, either. The fact that COVID seems to have made teen mental health worse offers clues about what's really driving the rise in sadness."

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The second fallacy presents that teens have always been moody, and sadness looks like it is rising only because people are willing to speak about it. "Objective measures of anxiety and depression--such as eating disorders, self-harming behaviors, and teen suicides-- are sharply over the past decade. "Across the country, we have witnessed dramatic increases in Emergency department visits for all mental health emergencies including suspected suicide attempts," the American Academy of Pediatrics said in October. Today's teenagers are more comfortable talking about mental health, but rising youth sadness is no illusion" (Thompson).

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The first fallacy mentioned and evident would be teens behaving badly. "In fact, lots of self-reported teen behavior are moving in a positive direction. Since the 1990s, drinking and driving is down almost 50 percent. School fights are down 50 percent. Sex before 13 is down more than 70 percent. School bullying is down. And LGBTQ acceptance is up" (Thompson)

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Big Picture: Mental Health is getting worse across all categories affecting teenagers in every demographic --> The Main Issues that reside with the preconceived beliefs of Mental Health Illnesses

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Big Picture: Mental Health is getting worse across all categories affecting teenagers in every demographic --> The Main Issues that reside with the preconceived beliefs of Mental Health Illnesses

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Embodies the emotional, psychological, and social well-being aspect within the daily lives of every individual. It induces essential and necessary ways to determine how we act in front of others (related/unrelated). It influences the key mechanisms in how we think, feels, and behave in a very unique way. This type of health is important throughout the whole life of an individual, regardless of the stage/age they are in.

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Also referred to as Suicide Ideation or SI, the thought process of committing self-harm, death of oneself (ending an individuals existence),

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the emotional feeling of despair; lacking the ability to believe that hope exists. Presents a clear and definitive reason to not expect what follows within the period (past/present/future). Incapable of developing and forming any solutions that may resolve the feeling that hurts, irritates, or causes an individual to resort to self-harm or any method that removes the pain instantaneously.

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The condition of feeling sad (emotion - short-lived - sporadic or immediately after being conscious of what is observed); is related to depression (mood - stays longer), grief, and sorrow. Influenced by negative events or incidents that produce a pessimistic response to what had occurred. Feeling regretful in a sense that shocks your conscious as it is not desirable/pleasant and fails to effectively provide any security or solutions of comfort. Where pain is associated with disappointment, disadvantage, and the inability to gain any positive results through actions that require blood, sweat, and tears prior. Loss and secluded to a position that refuses to seek the assistance needed to explore and discover a source of positive results/answers/solutions.

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Research Jean M. Twenge, but also discover more expert opinions in regard to mental health (books, articles, and other online sources. -
IGen: Why Today's Super-Connected Kids Are Growing Up Less Rebellious, More Tolerant, Less Happy--And Completely Unprepared - Jean M. Twenge
Research what are "Suicide Ideation" and its forms of development regarding mental health illnesses
Explore individual experiences that enrich the story and reasons why this issue of mental health has become so prevalent and growing at a stable rate.

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"The United States is experiencing an extreme teenage mental-health crisis. According to a new CDC study, from 2009 to 2021, the share of American high-school students who say they feel “persistent feelings of sadness or hopelessness” rose from 26 percent to 44 percent. This is the highest level of teenage sadness ever recorded" (Thompson). Not only teenagers, but upcoming young adults are suffering from mental health illnesses and struggle to find a coping mechanism that can fight against their emotional instability. The issue of mental health is not a new one, but rather a recurring issue since the existence of humanity. The question begs "Why has mental health become more prevalent now than in previous generations?' or "How does society find itself in such a predicament when it comes to mental health?" or "Was there a reason for not noticing and rather making it invisible in the eyes of those who are seeking for a solution to their problem?" Countless questions can arise on the topic of mental health and its continuous discovery of victims that cannot find a way toward the end of the tunnel where there is light. Consciously, mental health is obscure and there are a variety of arbitrary methods on how the development of certain emotional characteristic traits leads to a crisis that is difficult to manage individually. For instance, parents, the environment, the society they live in, the daily activities/work/hobbies/social interaction one may endeavor in the world where reality lies amongst many possibilities and opportunities.  "The government survey of almost 8,000 high-school students, which was conducted in the first six months of 2021, found a great deal of variation in mental health among different groups" (Thompson). In essence, the psychological health of these young teenagers to adults has become so unbearable to the point where taking their lives becomes an option. This one option would remove their existence and comfort them once and for all. However, that type of mindset adds to the issue, not resolving it. Value, meaning, significance, etc. provide an individual with a proper reassurance that they are not hidden, but rather, known for who they are within the rapidly developing society.