Generation Fear: Reconstructing the Crisis and Returning to Play

This article provides an in-depth analysis of the mental health crisis in young people, defined as the Anxiety Generation. The author moves away from individual diagnosis and points to a systemic deprivation of developmental needs: sleep, attention, and connection. A key destructive factor is the telephony of childhood, which has displaced free play—a natural laboratory of social skills and antifragility. The text exposes the paradox of the contemporary culture of safekeeping, which overprotects children physically, leaving them vulnerable in the digital world. Among the solutions, the author proposes restoring rational independence, introducing smartphone-free schools, and practicing a digital Sabbath, which will help rebuild mechanisms of self-regulation and focus.