Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness by Jonathan Haidt

14 reviews

puifaii's review against another edition

emotional informative fast-paced

2.0

A mixed bag of really good points on social media and personal anti-human right, anti-transgender right agenda driving.

The premise of the book is very good, with important issue needed to be discussed, especially in an era where we are all spending most of our time on the screen, unfortunately the writers harm and the possibilities for the legitimization of pathways for the legal killing of transgender people using debunked research and excluding sources on this topic in the book extra reference material have made it believable that this part is added to drive his own agenda, not for the science.

TLDR: The book outline important issues that we really need to talk about and tackle, unfortunately, the author insert his own pseudoscience belief that might kill millions of people worldwide. It would be great if human as a society prioritize looking into this issue.

Rec: Read the book with the awareness that many of the observation are opinionated, not originating from the original studies. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness and Transphobia

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Body shaming, Bullying, and Eating disorder

mmohare's review against another edition

informative medium-paced

3.0

There was a lot of interesting data in this but a decent amount of points/arguments that were off that led to the 3 star review here. I do say I appreciate the author was willing to say he won’t be right on everything and will keep his site updated, seems very invested in the research 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness

Moderate: Bullying, Suicide, and Transphobia

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Sexual violence, and Mass/school shootings

abbylechat's review against another edition

informative reflective slow-paced

3.0

My eyes glazed over with all the data in the first chapter. I know, it’s ironic. I’m proving the writer’s point a bit because I can’t sit still to finish his book on how technology is ruining us. But the chapters are so long and he’s droning in about data I already know.
I had to put the ebook down and wait for the audiobook. I thought the author had some good points. It was interesting to think about how the media and Stranger Danger kind of canceled the play-based childhood. I do agree that parents should delay smartphones and social media to at least 16. I have a harder time with schools confiscating phones for the day. But then again, I was a HS freshman when the first IPhone came out. I got my first IPhone my junior year and I had the respect for my teachers and self-restraint to keep my phone in my pocket during class.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Mental illness and Suicidal thoughts

skyfluff's review against another edition

challenging informative sad medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Body shaming, Bullying, Eating disorder, Mental illness, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic friendship, and Dysphoria

aemaltbie's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Minor: Addiction, Bullying, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

m_a_j's review against another edition

informative reflective medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder and Mental illness

Moderate: Bullying, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide

emily_koopmann's review against another edition

challenging informative inspiring reflective

4.5

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Content Warnings

Minor: Addiction, Bullying, Eating disorder, Mental illness, and Violence

whitne_ey's review against another edition

challenging hopeful informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Body shaming, Bullying, Eating disorder, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Suicide, Kidnapping, Mass/school shootings, Car accident, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Dysphoria, and Pandemic/Epidemic

jehansen127's review against another edition

informative medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Bullying, Confinement, Eating disorder, Mental illness, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual harassment, and Dysphoria

himpersonal's review against another edition

informative fast-paced

5.0

I’m not really sure how relevant the observations and advice in this book will be in a couple of generations. I think our current younger generations (mostly whom will be unaware of the practices outlined) will figure out how to get through life in different ways out of necessity. What we know about child development will change epigenetically. So I’d be interested in testing this book against the world in about 30 years. Until then, what’s provided seems infinitely beneficial. I can already see it play out in my life a little - my older nephew learned to read and write in Korean as a toddler on YouTube, but there’s a distinct and immediately noticeable difference between him and my niece who only knew Elmo through books and only started getting screen time probably at age four or five, and it was one episode of Daniel Tiger a week and a yoga program she did with her dad. My niece is a lot more excited about new experiences and meeting new people. There are many factors that distinguish them, but I’ve kind believed their access to screen times was a big contributor.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Body shaming, Bullying, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Racism, Self harm, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Stalking, Suicide attempt, Outing, Sexual harassment, Dysphoria, Classism, and Pandemic/Epidemic