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

THE INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A Wall Street Journal Top 10 Book of 2024 • A Washington Post Notable Book • A New York Times Notable Book A must-read for all parents: the generation-defining investigation into the collapse of youth mental health in the era of smartphones social media and big tech—and a plan for a healthier freer childhood. “With tenacity and candor Haidt lays out the consequences that have come with allowing kids to drift further into the virtual world . . . While also offering suggestions and solutions that could help protect a new generation of kids.” —Shannon Carlin TIME 100 Must-Read Books of 2024 After more than a decade of stability or improvement the mental health of adolescents plunged in the early 2010s. Rates of depression anxiety self-harm and suicide rose sharply more than doubling on many measures. Why? In The Anxious Generation<