Time Asia [US] November 6 2017 (単号)
- 発売日: 2017/10/28
- メディア: 雑誌
アメリカのティーンエイジャーのうつは、2010年から2016年の間に60パーセントも上昇しているという。原因はいろいろありうるが、主要因として指摘されるのはスマートフォンである。
A few months after her suicide attempt, Nina Langton addressed her classmates and spoke openly about her depression. She described the stigma of mental illness and lamented the fact, while many teens experience depression, few are willing to talk about it. “I was worried for so long about opening up about my struggles, because I thought I would be judged,” she said.
After her speech, “so many people my age reached out to me about their own experiences with technology and depression and therapy,” she says. “I think this is a big problem that needs to be talked about more.” (p.40)
これは単にソーシャル・メディアにおける人間関係とかの問題だけではない。脳科学的にも解明すべきものがあるようだ。