{"id":8697,"date":"2022-04-22T19:42:22","date_gmt":"2022-04-22T19:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aurelis.org\/blog\/?p=8697"},"modified":"2025-12-03T10:40:02","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T10:40:02","slug":"youthfully-sad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aurelis.org\/blog\/cognitive-insights\/youthfully-sad","title":{"rendered":"Youthfully Sad"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3>In a survey of 8000 high-school students between 2009 and 2021, the American CDC found the share of students with &#8216;persistent feelings of sadness or hopelessness&#8217; to have risen from 26 to 44%.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>This is confirmed by objective measures, such as self-harm, eating disorders, and suicide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also, it&#8217;s not only happening in the US, but in most &#8216;developed countries.&#8217; This is a global issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>I was a sad kid between 11 and +\/- 14 years of age.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During these three years, I could hardly cope with what I saw as the in-humanity of many adults \u2015 mainly in the way they treated other kids. I&#8217;ve always been an idealist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then I found books about non-conscious processing. These may have saved my life, at least my being alive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Why is youth so increasingly sad?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Several causes have been put forward: stressful news, social media, diminishing sociality, intensive modern parenting, COVID.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These are consistent with straightforward ideas about causality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Why is stressful news so stressful?<\/li><li>Why does youth abuse social media? Even more, why do social media abuse social media?<\/li><li>Why is there diminishment in sociality?<\/li><li>Why do parents replace quality with quantity?<\/li><li>Why did nobody have the guts to take <a href=\"https:\/\/aurelis.org\/blog\/category\/minding-corona\">COVID as a crucial chance to forward depth<\/a>?<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Why is youth so sad? \u2013 Take two.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This needs in-depth answers to the above questions. These answers are much less straightforward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The whole thing may be profoundly related to the <a href=\"https:\/\/aurelis.org\/blog?p=6618\">meaning crisis<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>New people (youngsters), coming of age into this world, need to make some sense of it. This sense cannot be freely given to them \u2015 as can, for instance, a new toy, a new hobby, or even a new car.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meaningfulness needs to grow. It can only come from inside. It grows together with the meaning-giver. Yet, if there is no meaning, there is nothing to live for \u2015 thus, no joie de vivre. There may be pleasure (of the temporary kind), but no happiness, no fulfilling joyfulness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Thus, there is only sadness, open or hidden.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This kind of sadness may turn into (open or hidden) depression or it may be one from the start. Indeed, we see that many (most?) cases of depression start from a young age.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What saved me at a fairly young age may be what is needed to diminish the global youthful sadness. This is a view of the human being that takes into account the whole person.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now you know why AURELIS is so full of it. All youngsters need support in this, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Otherwise, the sadness of youth will be the sadness of the future.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Young people have two options:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Make one&#8217;s heart into a less depth-sensitive thing.<\/li><li>Go for it, trying to change the broad environment rather than be changed.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>I have chosen the second option \u2015 still curious where it will lead to.<\/p>\n<div data-object_id=\"8697\" class=\"cbxwpbkmarkwrap cbxwpbkmarkwrap_no_cat cbxwpbkmarkwrap-post \"><a  data-redirect-url=\"https:\/\/aurelis.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8697\"  data-display-label=\"0\" data-show-count=\"0\" data-bookmark-label=\" \"  data-bookmarked-label=\" \"  data-loggedin=\"0\" data-type=\"post\" data-object_id=\"8697\" class=\"cbxwpbkmarktrig  cbxwpbkmarktrig-button-addto\" title=\"Bookmark This\" href=\"#\"><span class=\"cbxwpbkmarktrig-label\"  style=\"display:none;\" > <\/span><\/a> <div  data-type=\"post\" data-object_id=\"8697\" class=\"cbxwpbkmarkguestwrap\" id=\"cbxwpbkmarkguestwrap-8697\"><div class=\"cbxwpbkmarkguest-message\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"cbxwpbkmarkguesttrig_close\"><\/a><h3 class=\"cbxwpbookmark-title cbxwpbookmark-title-login\">Please login to bookmark<\/h3>\n\t\t<form name=\"loginform\" id=\"loginform\" action=\"https:\/\/aurelis.org\/blog\/wp-login.php\" method=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<p class=\"login-username\">\n\t\t\t\t<label for=\"user_login\">Username or Email Address<\/label>\n\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" class=\"input\" value=\"\" size=\"20\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p class=\"login-password\">\n\t\t\t\t<label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n\t\t\t\t<input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" class=\"input\" value=\"\" size=\"20\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<p class=\"login-remember\"><label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label><\/p>\n\t\t\t<p class=\"login-submit\">\n\t\t\t\t<input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button button-primary\" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"https:\/\/aurelis.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8697\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/form><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a survey of 8000 high-school students between 2009 and 2021, the American CDC found the share of students with &#8216;persistent feelings of sadness or hopelessness&#8217; to have risen from 26 to 44%. 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