In December, "Avatar" director James Cameron made headlines when he claimed that testosterone is "a toxin" that needs to be worked out of one's system. It's commonly assumed that testosterone fuels anti-social behavior. The drop now reportedly affects 1 in 4 men in the US. Work carried out by academics at Kyushu University in Japan has found that a low testosterone level is one of the common metabolic signatures of hikikomori in young social recluses - which is important to note because testosterone levels among young American men are plummeting and have been for years. They play video games, watch pornography, and tend to engage in heavy drug use, according to the author of "Men Without Work." Many of these men, said Eberstadt, spend inordinate amounts of time indoors, totally withdrawn from society. Some 6,000 miles away, the United States is experiencing its own form of hikikomori.ĭuring a recent interview with Chris Williamson, a British podcaster based in Austin, Texas, the political economist Nicholas Eberstadt discussed the fact that 7 million men of prime working age are currently without employment and not seeking jobs. The problem has grown so severe that the Japanese have a term for it: Hikikomori, one who literally withdraws from society. In Japan, an estimated 1.5 million people - many of them young men - now live in complete isolation. US men are now more likely to be "self-isolated." if that came from a healthy place, like a renewed spirit of moral restraint.īut what if that's due to the same phenomenon causing the depression? What if kids are having less sex not because they're more moral, but simply more despairing? I would say the "having sex later and being less likely to abuse drugs" would be an unmitigated good. And they're also less likely than some earlier generations to abuse drugs, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's annual survey on teen behavior finds.īut kids report that bullying at school is common and a third of students report persistent feelings of sadness and hopelessness, the report finds. It started about the same time as smartphones became widespread.įewer teens are having sex or doing drugs, but more are depressed.įewer high school students are having sex than ever before, federal health officials reported Thursday. The suicide rate in 2021 was twice as high as the homicide rate, according to the CDC report.Īnother CDC report said that the rate of suspected suicides and suicide attempts by poisoning among young surged during the Covid-19 pandemic, especially among children ages 10 to 12, with a 70% increase from 2019 to 2021.įor teens ages 15 to 19, the homicide rate remained higher than the suicide rate, according to the new report.Ī lot of the depression is due to previous trends being exacerbated by Fauci's Lockdowns.īut the trend was already there. But a large spike in homicide rates during the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic brought the rates for both types of violent death together for the first time in a decade.įor children ages 10 to 14, however, a large gap remained. Suicide rates surpassed homicide rates for this age group in 2010 and have continued rising for the past decade. The homicide rate for this age group in 2021 was the highest it's been since 1997, and the suicide rate was the highest on record, since 1968. Suicide and homicide were the second and third leading causes of death for this age group, both causing about 11 deaths for every 100,000 people ages 10 to 24. In 2021, suicide and homicide rates for children and young adults ages 10 to 24 in the US were the highest they've been in decades, according to a new report from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Studies Show that Depression, Self-Isolation Are On the Riseīut Not for Us: For Us, There Are Only GAINZZZ -Lamont the Big Dummy
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