Never Enough: When Achievement Culture Becomes Toxic-and What We Can Do About It

by Jennifer Breheny Wallace

“No one is putting pain on a scale: a child in pain is a child in pain, and neither chooses their circumstance.”

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The mental health of young people is shaped by many factors, noted Murthy, from their genes to their relationships to larger social forces, like messages in media and popular culture that can “erode their sense of self-worth—telling

This is why I need to seriously reduced my time in social media!🥲

What emerged from my research hit me like an ice bath: our kids are absorbing the idea that their worth is contingent on their performance—their GPA, the number of social media followers they have, their college brands—not for who they are deep at their core. They feel they only matter to the adults in their lives, their peers, the larger community, if they are successful.

Ohh this is sad but reality can be more harsh than what we imagine