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The Compass: The Borders of Sanity: Increase in Mental Health Issues Among Teenagers in Sweden

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Sweden's Adolescents

18/08/2016 GMT

Increase in Mental Health Issues Among Teenagers in Sweden

The Borders of Sanity

BBC World Service - The Compass, The Borders of Sanity, Increase in Mental Health Issues Among Teenagers in Sweden

'Democratic parenting' and social media use could be behind young people's anxiety

The mental health of Sweden's adolescents has become a public health concern, with more young people reporting problems and seeking psychiatric help. Christopher Harding asks why.

Despite Sweden's reputation as an ideal place to grow up, the mental health of its adolescents has become a public health concern, with more young people reporting problems and seeking psychiatric help. Is it down to a tougher economic climate, school stress, social media, so-called "curling parents"? Christopher Harding investigates and asks whether Sweden is struggling to strike a balance between good mental health awareness and the creation of a medicalized culture of vulnerability with young people hung up on everyday troubles and traumas, dwelling on their reactions as pathological. 

Producer: Keith Moore

(A group of teenagers. Credit to IStock)

The Compass: The Borders of Sanity

Christopher Harding asks if the medicalisation of mental illness obscures the wide variation between countries and cultures.

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