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Necessary Suffering? - Investigating Existential Suffering in Youth through Everyday Experiences of Bad Conscience
2021
Qualitative Studies
The purpose of this article is to develop an account of existential suffering in youth. According to recent studies, a growing amount of young Westerners has come to suffer from mental disorders, stress, and a general lack of well-being. It is suggested however that the massive concern for young people's mental health might risk contributing to an increased pathologization of all kinds of suffering in youth. In continuation hereof the article aims at disclosing a suffering that is not
doi:10.7146/qs.v6i1.124448
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