Digitale Diagnosen. Warum nehmen psychische Erkrankungen zu? Mit Thomas Fuchs und Laura Wiesböck

In the organizer's words:

Overstimulation leads to excessive demands and anxiety, the acceleration of everyday life to permanent exhaustion, constant self-observation and self-expression to depression. This is how the assumptions of today's digital skepticism can be summarized. In fact, mental illnesses and deviations from the norm appear to be on the rise, especially among young people (such as ADHD). But what factors are decisive for this? And does so-called digitalization have anything to do with it at all? Does the excessive use of social media really lead to mental illness? Or is the digital age characterized by a new determination to interpret life crises, emotional injuries and phases of inefficiency as pathological? A discussion with the philosopher and psychiatrist Thomas Fuchs(Embodied Emotions) and the sociologist Laura Wiesböck(Digital Diagnoses). Moderated by Wolfram Eilenberger