Anxiety symptoms are increasing. At what age do people suffer the most? And to what degree is social media a causative factor?
Youth have heightened anxiety due to their developmental age. Self-esteem and self-confidence are lower.anxietyIf we screen more for anxiety disorders and find them, then we must treat more people. Can we do this? What treatments can we offer via the already-overburdened mental health care system?
They found higher rates of anxiety in Western cultures compared to non-Western cultures. They also found higher anxiety in populations exposed to war conflict. Yet the highest prevalence of anxiety, 10.1%, was in the United States, a non-conflict country. Yang et al. analyzed data from the Global Burden of Disease Study in 2019. They looked at prevalence and incidence of anxiety in 204 countries from 1990 to 2019. They discovered that the absolute number of anxiety disorders grew by 50% from 1990 to 2019, a 30-year period. Highest rates were among those ages 5-39 years. These were attributed to
Have coping abilities diminished? If so, does this contribute to the rise in anxiety? Independent of, and preceding, the COVID pandemic has been the rise in social media use, especially among youth. Several studies from 2019 and 2020—Barthorpe, et.al., Hollis et al., Riehm, et al. —link a drop in coping skills with increased anxiety symptoms.
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