A college student’s manifest mental instability should worry us all

America’s young people are not all right. The evidence is all over the place, but the solutions are less obvious given the ideologically corrupt place the West has become.

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A Catholic black woman named Savannah released a video in which she interviews a female student at Westchester Community College, one of the branches of the State University of New York. A couple of things make the video impressive.

The first is Savannah herself, an intelligent, composed, morally upright young woman. The second is the unnamed interviewee’s manic behavior and inability to think. What you’re about to see is what happens when rationality and morality meet something that looks remarkably like serious mental illness:

Here’s the entire video, which culminated in the student calling the police on Savannah, who then kicked Savannah and her co-videographer off the campus:

Watching that porcine young woman bounce around, it struck me that I’d seen her before. Well, not her, but someone showing the same manic, disturbed behavior, although this time it wasn’t a young woman; it was a young man:

Something is very wrong here, especially in the world of academia, which seems to breed these pathologies. Some of it, of course, is that a small percentage of people are mentally ill, which manifests in different ways. But if you’re older, as I am, do you remember that much mental illness in the world around you?

When I grew up in San Francisco, it was pretty much confined to the Haight-Ashbury and was tied closely to drug abuse. And indeed, drug abuse may be part of the problem we’re seeing today.

Across America, thanks to states that have legalized marijuana (or states that just turn a blind eye to marijuana use), we’ve seen a corresponding rise in pot-related mental illness. In his 2019 book, Tell Your Children: The Truth About Marijuana, Mental Illness, and Violence, Alex Berenson focused heavily on the relationship between heavy cannabis use, psychosis/schizophrenia, and violence among people who become psychotic. Current data support his thesis.

A peer-reviewed analysis—Medical cannabis legalization and state-level prevalence of serious mental illness in the National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) 2008-2015—compared states according to their medical-marijuana laws. It found that states with relatively liberal medical-cannabis laws had a significantly higher prevalence of serious mental illness. The more pot smoke floating through America, the more crazy people.

Another reason for the craziness is what one might call the “zeitgeist.” Among leftists, especially women, it’s fashionable to be mentally ill.

In 2020, a Pew Research Center American Trends Panel survey asked over 11,500 people whether a doctor or other health care provider had told them that they had a mental health condition. Of that number, 18% said “yes.” What was more striking was the breakdown of that 18%: 56.3% of the liberal white women who answered that survey claimed that they’d been diagnosed with a mental health condition.

If that were the only survey, one could argue it was flawed. However, in 2024, the Skeptic Research Center surveyed 3,000 adults about depressive symptoms. Gen Z women won hands down, for they were overwhelmingly more likely than other cohorts to claim a mental illness. Sadly, Gen Z men weren’t that far behind.

This is exactly what Wendy Kaminer already saw happening back in 1992 when she wrote I’m Dysfunctional, You’re Dysfunctional: The Recovery Movement And Other Self-help Fashions. In a well-researched book, she effectively noted that, thanks to the self-help movement and its focus on personal misery, suburban white women were more traumatized by a hangnail than were women who escaped Cambodia’s Killing Fields.

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These suburban white women, like the depressed white liberal women today, were overwhelmingly college-educated. In the videos at the top of this essay, both the young woman and the self-consciously feminized young man reflect this trend.

Finally, speaking of that young man in his wig and skirt, there’s also the fact that the transgender movement is quite literally making people crazy. Contrary to the years-long insistence that “transitioning” (i.e., mutilating surgeries and lifelong chemical dependence) was the way to bring mental health to sexually confused people, it turns out that “transitioning” destroys people’s mental health:

Continuing the tweet:

…A total 2,083 individuals were studied, with 16,643 matched controls. They were followed for up to 25 years.

Finland’s health registers are mandatory, which means no one opts out — this is the complete national picture.

The numbers: psychiatric morbidity rose from 9.8% to 60.7% in adolescents who underwent feminising reassignment, and from 21.6% to 54.5% in masculinising reassignment.

Even after adjusting for prior psychiatric history, gender-referred adolescents faced five times the risk of male population controls, and three times the risk of female controls.

“Psychiatric needs do not subside after medical gender reassignment,” the authors concluded.

Referrals after 2010 arrived sicker. 47.9% had already needed psychiatric treatment before their first clinic visit, against 15.3% among controls.

The authors’ read: for some adolescents, gender distress may be secondary to other mental health challenges.

The evidence keeps mounting. The silencing continues anyway.

How many more adolescents will be told this is “care”?

This was all obvious to any sentient being not caught up in a foul political movement. When you interfere with young people’s hormones and cut off essential body parts, bad things happen to their brains and emotions.

The bottom line is that Western kids are not all right, and that our culture, with its drugs, hysteria, self-obsession, and dangerous fads, is behind the madness. I’m not sure we can turn back the clock to raise young people as if it were the pre-1960s era, but that would certainly be a good start to save these poor children.

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