this makes so much sense. we in this culture have had so many health issues ascribed to us as some fault of us as a species,instead of the consideration that our environment and the clanging noise of tech and disassociation from the earth isn't the baseline cause of all that makes being human very difficult at the moment. especially the children. advertisement and PR fails to bring the thing promised and self harm arrives to affirm that we're the cause of that failure.
My generation (grew up in the 70's), everyone had multiple teeth pulled for braces in their teens. Suicide in young people was rare. If the orthodontia is the cause then why wasn't it causing suicide then?
Like most things the cause is likely mutli-factorial. But I believe the primary cause is the high amounts of antidepressants that kids take today. They cause suicide, but it's easy for them to deny it and say it was the underlying depression that caused the suicide.
this makes so much sense. we in this culture have had so many health issues ascribed to us as some fault of us as a species,instead of the consideration that our environment and the clanging noise of tech and disassociation from the earth isn't the baseline cause of all that makes being human very difficult at the moment. especially the children. advertisement and PR fails to bring the thing promised and self harm arrives to affirm that we're the cause of that failure.
My generation (grew up in the 70's), everyone had multiple teeth pulled for braces in their teens. Suicide in young people was rare. If the orthodontia is the cause then why wasn't it causing suicide then?
Like most things the cause is likely mutli-factorial. But I believe the primary cause is the high amounts of antidepressants that kids take today. They cause suicide, but it's easy for them to deny it and say it was the underlying depression that caused the suicide.
I think you need to look at why the kids need the antidepressants to begin with.
Also note that chatgpt estimates 10-20% of american teens got braces in the 70s whereas it is 40-50% now >> https://share.cleanshot.com/6vNBNVbT