Many teenagers feel lonely as if no one understands them and the changes they are going through. 【小题1】 Day by day, everything seems different, yet the same. Life never seems to be going fast enough; yet, in other ways, like a race car, life seems to be rushing too fast and even going out of control. 【小题2】别的人也有过同感吗?

These feelings are a common part of adolescence the time of life between child and adult. And, 【小题3】 though it may sometimes be difficult to believe, you are not alone —every adult has gone through adolescence, and 【小题4】你的朋友和你一样正经历着这个阶段。It is common for teenagers to feel lonely and misunderstood. 【小题5】 These feelings can be thought of as growing pains —the difficulties that teenagers face as they grow to adults.

American teens are seen as “in a state of 【小题1】 disaster”. A report released last week paints a deeply disturbing 【小题2】 of the mental health of high students.

【小题3】 more than 17, 000 teens conducted in a survey in 2021, 42 percent said they experienced the 【小题4】 of sadness or hopelessness. The issue is 【小题5】 more widespread than in a 【小题6】 survey in 2011, and girls are dramatically worse. A 【小题7】 of girls — 57 percent — reported persistent despair, 【小题8】 with 29 percent of boys.

Nearly 1 【小题9】 3 girls seriously considered suicide (up from 19 percent in 2011), and 13 percent say they attempted it in the 【小题10】. “What caused this?” The CDC offered 【小题11】 definitive answers, but consider 【小题12】 has happened over the past decade. “Instagram was released in late 2010. TikTok in 2016.” Soon 【小题13】, 90 percent of teen girls reported using social 【小题14】 every day. These apps, create more “social comparison, social pressure, and 【小题15】 peer interactions,” with teens measuring their self-worth — or lack of it — in likes and followers. Then in 2020 Covid-19 【小题16】 the picture.

【小题17】 its root causes, this epidemic of hopelessness should 【小题18】 considered “a national crisis”. Did the reopening of schools and social spaces this year help 【小题19】 teens’ suffering? The CDC survey comes out only every other year, so we’ll have to wait to 【小题20】 out.

In Britain and the USA, the managing directors and presidents of big companies are often accused of being ‘fat cats’, i.e. bosses 【小题1】 salaries are often twenty-five times more than the company’s 【小题2】 worker. When times are hard and workers are laid off, they 【小题3】 very little. Departing directors, on the other hand, get big golden handshakes.

By 【小题4】, in Japan the ratio between the highest and lowest paid is normally a more modest seven or eight to one. In addition, large Japanese companies have the reputation of 【小题5】 care of all their employees, and the concept of a ‘job for life’ is still, by and large, true.