Café Inquiry (Online) – The Teenage Mental Health Crisis

This event is held online. (Click the button to join the Zoom meeting.)

The recently released CDC survey on teen mental health reported disturbing increases in mental health problems among teens, especially anxiety, depression, and suicidal thoughts. This report has generated much reporting and commentary. What are the causes of this mental health crisis? What can be done about it? There is a plethora articles to look at. Here are some suggestions if you’d like to delve into the topic before our Café Inquiry meeting on Sunday. This PDF from “The Week” provides a very brief overview with some other suggested reading. This article from the NYT Morning Newsletter examines some of the hypotheses about the causes of the mental health crisis. Here is a PDF of the article. This is an opinion piece about the crisis discussing the relative influence of politics and social media. The PDF is here. This article from the NYT focuses on teen girls. Here is the PDF. This (lengthy) article from the NYT goes into some depth, and follows the stories of some individual teens that struggled with severe depression. It also includes a video link. Here is a PDF of the article. This is a link to the report from the CDC. It is lengthy, but very thorough and worth looking through. Be sure to join us Sunday, and don’t forget to set your clocks ahead Saturday night for Daylight Saving Time!

Note – we’re still looking for a potential venue in the Grand Rapids area to start once per month in person meetings. Our previous leads all came up empty. Let us know if you have any ideas.

Café Inquiry starts with a short introduction of the day’s topic, followed by casual discussion.

This event is free and open to the public. Donations appreciated, but not expected.

Attendees are able to future propose topics which would align with Michigan Humanist’s purpose: from atheism, agnosticism, humanism, secularism, and freethinking to broader subjects in science and humanities, such as religion, philosophy, social issues, politics, evolution, morality, ethics, and psychology.

Café Inquiry (Grand Rapids) meets each month on the second and fourth Sunday.

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Michigan Humanists values the participation of all guests — requests for reasonable accommodation may be made by contacting the event host at least three days prior to the event.

Michigan Humanists expects all guests to engage in respectful discussion. Critiques on views and claims based on merit are allowed, but not attacks on individuals who hold other perspectives.

Any person engaging in disruptive behavior or harassment will be asked to leave, and may be banned from future events pending the severity of the action. Please speak to the event host or contact info@michiganhumanists.org if you feel these expectations are being violated.