What are we doing to young women?

From Antidepressant Dispensing to US Adolescents and Young Adults: 2016–2022 by Kao-Ping Chua, MD, PhD; Anna Volerman, MD; Jason Zhang, BS; Joanna Hua, BS; Rena M. Conti, PhD.  From the Results:

Between January 2016 and December 2022, the monthly antidepressant dispensing rate increased 66.3%, from 2575.9 to 4284.8. Before March 2020, this rate increased by 17.0 per month (95% confidence interval: 15.2 to 18.8). The COVID-19 outbreak was not associated with a level change but was associated with a slope increase of 10.8 per month (95% confidence interval: 4.9 to 16.7). The monthly antidepressant dispensing rate increased 63.5% faster from March 2020 onwards compared with beforehand. In subgroup analyses, this rate increased 129.6% and 56.5% faster from March 2020 onwards compared with beforehand among females aged 12 to 17 years and 18 to 25 years, respectively. In contrast, the outbreak was associated with a level decrease among males aged 12 to 17 years and was not associated with a level or slope change among males aged 18 to 25 years.

What are we doing to our young women?  Between dosing them up on anxiety medications and making them more anxious with social media, there is some disastrous combination of events occurring.  Add in that the gender dysmorphia furor seems to involve mostly young women, something seems profoundly wrong.