[Margaret Pilkington]

There is a front page story today about youngsters suffering mental health problems.....apparently there has been a huge rise in young people with what are considered to be Mental health issues as compared to 70 years ago.
Well, 70 years ago the young people didn't have time to notice if they were depressed/anorexic/bulimic or what, because they were too busy going out to work,or fighting a war - now that did cause some mental health problems....and physical health ones too.
Are the mental health problems because these youngsters have used mind altering drugs.....have too little useful activity in their lives, or is it because they are too introspective and spend too much time navel gazing?

What are your opinions? I would value sensible answers to this thread please.