Your essay, Unease in Generation Z, dedicated to the mental health crisis among young people, starts from a personal intuition born in the United Kingdom, where you studied. Tell us…
At the University of Exeter where I studied, in the central forum, there was this large official installation around the hashtag “It’s OK not to be OK”, with an invitation for students to come and share their mental health problems. Intuitively, this message left me skeptical, without knowing exactly why. In a way, this book – which digs into the reasons for the mental health crisis among young people – was a way to understand the cause of my initial unease. Because the numbers are anything but trivial for my generation. The Montaigne and Terram institutes estimate that a quarter of French people aged 15-29 today suffer from depression.
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