The anxious generation

An investigation into the collapse of youth mental health, and a plan for a healthier, freer childhood. Social psychologist Jonathon Haidt explores how the rise of the "phone-based childhood" has coincided with the rise in rates of depression, anxiety, self-harm, and suicide in children. He explains how the increase in technology use by children interferes with social and neurlogical development, and proposes four simple rules that might help to stop the epidemic of mental illness in children and restore a more humane childhood.