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Mental Ill Health Among Young Women and Girls
75% or three-quarters of mental health issues happen before the age of 24, with young women emerging the highest risks of mental health illness, which is strongly linked to the rise of social media in the 2000s as well as issues within contemporary culture.
Women are very prone to social contagion, such as high rates of anorexia and teen pregnancies in the 1990s, strongly linked to social culture within those age brackets.
Also, in the 1980s, there was a similar issue with people reporting multiple personality disorders.
In the last decade, there has also been controversy over the transgender issue, with some academics and political commentators, such as Jordan Peterson, making the accusation that the rise of young women who wish to transition into men is a social contagion.
No matter how you stand on the issue, it has been highly documented, particularly among young women.
They are highly prone to depression, forms of mental health disorders, as well as suffering during their teen years.
It has been found that 25.7% of young women self-harm, which is more than twice the rate it is for young men.
Again, the reason for this is that women, on average at the population level, experience more negative emotions than the…
