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Comment by AlexandrB

4 days ago

> 2) Fear of school shootings.

I would add:

3) Fear of fear of school shootings.

The active shooter drills and other security measures that American kids go through in some schools are positively dystopian. Even if the chances of a school shooting are statistically very low, the measures put in place to prevent them are probably not good for kids' psychological well being.

Honestly a school shooting drill was probably near the bottom of the causes of psychological problems when I was in school.