Is this going to be one of those cultural things like the Great Depression or the Blitz where decades later it’s just understood to be a point of cultural trauma?
I’m pretty sure it will be. A worryingly high proportion of my friends and family’s kids who were teenagers during lockdown have mental health problems (anxiety is very common) and, here in the UK mental health services are currently under unprecedented pressure. Granted it has hit older generations (I’m still not sure about younger children, my niece and nephew are OK and seem to have been happy to just not go to school as much) but in a more scattershot manner where there is a whole generation scarred by this and I don’t know how it’ll play out with the background noise of the climate crisis and culture wars.
Is this going to be one of those cultural things like the Great Depression or the Blitz where decades later it’s just understood to be a point of cultural trauma?
I’m pretty sure it will be. A worryingly high proportion of my friends and family’s kids who were teenagers during lockdown have mental health problems (anxiety is very common) and, here in the UK mental health services are currently under unprecedented pressure. Granted it has hit older generations (I’m still not sure about younger children, my niece and nephew are OK and seem to have been happy to just not go to school as much) but in a more scattershot manner where there is a whole generation scarred by this and I don’t know how it’ll play out with the background noise of the climate crisis and culture wars.