A generation of young people — one in four between the ages of 16 and 24 — is experiencing measurable, documented mental distress, and the clinical psychologist leading an independent review into youth mental health wants the world to understand why. Prof Peter Fonagy, himself a survivor of suicidal ideation as a young immigrant in London, has spent nine months gathering evidence that points not to weakness, but to a convergence of forces — economic precarity, social media's corrosive reach, a pandemic that severed the thread of ordinary life — that would challenge any generation. The systems
Mental distress among young people is real, not snowflake syndrome, says mental health review head
Young people experiencing rising rates of anxiety, depression, self-harm, eating disorders, and suicidal ideation; one in four aged 16-24 struggling with mental health.