{"product_id":"mental-health-crisis-nobody-wants-to-talk-about-why-rates-of-anxiety-depression-and-loneliness-have-skyrocketed-despite-unprecedented-comfort-and-c-9798195057954","title":"Mental Health Crisis Nobody Wants to Talk About: Why Rates of Anxiety, Depression, and Loneliness Have Skyrocketed Despite Unprecedented Comfort and C","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Brian Adams\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Emotions\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWe have more comfort, more connectivity, and more choice than any generation in history.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eWe are also the most anxious, most depressed, and most lonely.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eThis is not a coincidence.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNearly 48 million Americans are currently being treated for depression. The Surgeon General has declared loneliness a public health epidemic with mortality risk equivalent to smoking fifteen cigarettes a day. Forty percent of high school students report persistent sadness or hopelessness. The suicide rate among children aged 10 to 19 increased 85 percent in a single decade.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd yet the national conversation about mental health focuses almost entirely on individual treatment, therapy, medication, self-care, while ignoring the structural conditions producing the crisis in the first place.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis book tests the water supply.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Mental Health Crisis Nobody Wants to Talk About\u003c\/i\u003e traces the epidemic to its structural roots: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- The attention economy engineered to profit from your anxiety\u003cbr\u003e- The collapse of communal institutions that once provided belonging\u003cbr\u003e- The economics of isolation that reward mobility over rootedness\u003cbr\u003e- The meaning vacuum consumer culture created and cannot fill\u003cbr\u003e- The parenting revolution producing the most supervised, least resilient generation in history\u003cbr\u003e- The over-medicalization of a social crisis disguised as individual disease\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing on Gallup, CDC, Harvard, and Surgeon General data, this book goes further than any single predecessor by examining every structural driver simultaneously, technology, economics, community, identity, spirituality, parenting, and institutional failure, and presenting a framework for rebuilding what was lost.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis is not a self-help book. It is a structural diagnosis with a rebuilding plan.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor readers of Jonathan Haidt, Johann Hari, Robert Putnam, and Vivek Murthy who want the full picture in one volume.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47882801381527,"sku":"9798195057954","price":1432.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798195057954.webp?v=1781097157","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/mental-health-crisis-nobody-wants-to-talk-about-why-rates-of-anxiety-depression-and-loneliness-have-skyrocketed-despite-unprecedented-comfort-and-c-9798195057954","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}