News: Anxiety on rise among the young in social media age

Jim McCullochNews

A recent article in The Guardian newspaper highlighted a YouGov survey which shows that 18% of young people don’t believe life is worth living. By contrast, a previous survey in 2009 found only 9% of 16-25 year-olds disagreed with the comment that “life is really worth living.”

The number of young people in the UK who say they do not believe that life is worth living has doubled in the last decade, amid a sense of overwhelming pressure from social media which is driving feelings of inadequacy, new research suggests. The whole article can be readĀ here.

A link to articles on coping with stress and anxiety can be accessed fromĀ this link.

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