Friday, November 8, 2024

SwedishFinnish Yle claims that eating disorders are caused by social media. In reality, it's Complex childhood trauma

On their TikTok channel, Finnish state media Yle claims that Eating disorders are increasing and are worse than ever. Eating disorders requiring hospitalization increased by 48% during Sars Sars-Cov (2) lock down. They also claim that the cause is social media. Our species are at risk of “natural stupidity”. I have developed a model called Rational Entrepreneurial Thinking. Eating disorder is typically caused by Complex child trauma. Children who grow up with both parents or with the father have better emotional and social adjustment as well as cognitive development, including visuospatial perception, compared to children who grow up with a single mother. Finland has issues with women’s relational aggressiveness. 8 pages.

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On their TikTok channel ylex3mnyheter, Finnish state media Yle claims that Eating disorders are increasing and are worse than ever. Eating disorders requiring hospitalization increased by 48% during Sars Sars-Cov (2) lock down. They also claim that the cause is social media.


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Their reference is social psychologist Jonathan Haidt's book on the topic - The Anxious Generation.

Is that really true?

Our species are at risk of “natural stupidity” - the tendency to believe information that is prototypical (Kahneman och Tversky, 1972), often repeated (Tversky och Kahneman, 1973) or is just easy to access (Kahneman and Tversky, 1977), which is congruent with Dysrationalia - the inability to think and behave rationally despite adequate intelligence (this includes instrumental and epistemic rationality) (Stanovich, 1993).

In order to dodge the above, I have developed a model called Rational Entrepreneurial Thinking (Österberg, 2021, kap 3). it is based on three established theories:
  • Epistemic vigilance - to minimize the risk of being accidentally or intentionally being misinformed, be suspicious of statements and the purpose of Communication the statement, especially from legacy media (Sperber et al. 2010).

  • Disjunctive reasoning - take all sources into account (Stanovich, 2009).

  • Numeracy - ability to understand, reason with, and apply simple numerical concepts, the foundation for instrumental and epistemic rationality (Brooks och Pui, 2010).
Eating disorders are typically caused by Complex child trauma.


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Children who grow up with both parents or with the father have better emotional and social adjustment as well as cognitive development, including visuospatial perception, compared to children who grow up with a single mother (Baker et al. 2020; Farran och Formby, 2011; LaFlamme et al. 2012; Olsson, 2022; Rolle et al. 2019; Sethna, 2017; Vieno et al. 2009, 2014; Österberg, 2004).

Food matters. Kids need to eat meat, and animal fats for physical and mental development (Adesogan et al. 2020; Allen, 2003; Balehegn et al. 2019, 2023).

Dr. Haidt's book has also been met with some criticism.


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Then why has eating disorders become more prevalent in Finland?

  • In May 2020, media reported that after that acting prime minister Sanna Marin and her cabinet, Katri Kulmuni (Centre), Maria Ohisalo (Green), Li Andersson (Left Alliance), and Anna-Maja Henriksson (SFP) had imposed the Covid-19 lock-down, suicide rates in Finland increased by 15% (Yle News, 2020).

  • Soon after, depression and suicide increased (Yle News, 2020).

  • In September, 2022, the minister of education, Li Andersson, warned that Finnish boys are failing school. And speaking to another minister, Ville Skinnari, he said that the simple jobs (n~600 000) that in a historical perspective gave these boys a chance, are gone.

  • In October 2022, I mapped research on Alzheimer's. It showed that Finland has the most cases per capita in the world (Österberg, 2022).

  • In November 2022, at a conference about children's legal rights, Finland's Child Commissary, Elina Pekkarinen, said that 20 % of Finnish children and adolescents born 1997 or later, have mental issues (that's a staggering 265 000 young humans). Pekkarinen, who specializes in political studies, claimed that the cause was carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and neuro-psychiatry.

  • March 2023, Finland was still topping the suicide ranking in Fennoscandia and Denmark (the Nordic Countries except Iceland) (Österberg, 2023).

  • April 2023, during a residents discussion organized by the city of Helsingfors in collaboration with an organization called Arbis, which provides education in Swedish, one researcher made the claim that “Swedish speaking Finns are happier and live longer” [sic].

  • April, 2023, Finland' Institute for Health and Welfare (THL) and The Social Insurance Institution of Finland (Fpa) reported their annual review of Finnish people's physical and mental health. They claim that since 2010, Finnish people's ability to work and function has deteriorated. It is predicted to continue to deteriorate if the government doesn't start acting now. Finnish people's lack of work performance ability is attributed to issues with mental health.

  • In November 2023, Elina Pekkarinen said that psychological and lethal violence against small children has increased. Maj Estlander, an administrator for the Bensow foundation interjected, saying that 40% of the school children are affected by psychological violence. Note. Psychological violence equals relational aggressiveness which is typically a female phenomena.

  • In September 2024, another Swedish-speaking tabloid, Vasabladet, reported that mental health issues cost Finland one (1) billion euros a year, which corresponds to 26,000 people being on full-time sick leave.


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In parallel to that, the Brain Foundation predicts that:


“One in two women and one in three men over the age of 45 will develop a serious brain disease during the rest of their lives.

Indirectly, the disease affects even more people – family members, friends and colleagues”.
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And they claim that the cost is 10 times higher ~11 billion euros annually.

If Finn in general live to be 80, which is likely, more than 769 000 thousand (~481 000 Finnish women and more than ~288 000 Finnish men) will be affected (the calculation is based on the premise that ~55 000 Finns are born every year and that Finns live to be ~80; women: 55 000 *.5*0.5*35=481 250; men 55 000*.5*.33*35= 288 750).

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