Besides all the reasons other commenters have said, it's because mental health is a pseudo-social phenomenon among teens.

Having a mental illness gets them attention, online and in person. I have two teens, and even though both have diagnosed mental illness due to trauma from their other parent, they still seek, discuss, and revel in self-diagnoses.

If a friend claims to have something, they rush to the internet to do "research," and begin exhibiting "symptoms." Same thing is true with other labels.

We have a dearth of parenting, due to needing two incomes to make a household run. Adult attention is scarce, so teens make up for it with wild claims and garnering attention from other teens. The internet makes it easy to model behaviors. So yes, there is an increase in mental illness, but not the kinds, nor for the reasons the internet would have us believe.

A grumpy old person because I'm too exhausted to plan a costume, and I don't know how to have fun.

My brother and I used to play a game called Splatterhouse on Turbografx-16. It was humorously horrifying, given the highly pixellated gore on screen.

Pandora is supposed to be paid ad-free, but you can't pick specific songs, I think.

You probably actually wouldn't when it's 5 times more expensive.

Probably because those of us in the more flexible areas of the Kinsey scale are leaning away from men in light of everything.

It HAS enabled it. I've watched my kids be abused for 15 years, powerless to stop it, because CPS told me to stop "causing trouble" with my ex after my second report, or I'd lose custody.

Two thoughts: this is mind-blowing AND there's no possible way this could go wrong, right? Right?!?

I was going to respond, but you said it so much better than I could have.

The tension between liability and control is real.