I don't belittle their suffering.
Generation Z has suffered the consequences of closing mental institutions for preceding generations, leading to some very mentally ill people having children. No one is calling it out, much less addressing it.
Too many Generation Z children were raising themselves, often with only a television, because their parent or parents were unwilling or unable to raise them. An inordinate number of Generation Z were raised in broken homes. I cannot insist enough that Generation Z members study abnormal psychology, especially narcissism, to understand what one or both of their parents did to them.
Many parents of Generation Z smoked crack, meth, and took mind altering prescription drugs. No one has done studies to see what that's done to the brain development of Generation Z children.
Generation Z has grown up with completely failed institutions; schools, churches, government. Their "support" structure actively targets them for mind warping, molestation, and financial slavery. The government and propaganda media outlets have lied to them for every moment of their lives.
The mental health industry, instead of helping them, prescribes them more mind altering drugs. Children who may have had Gender Dysphoria were told they were born in the wrong body and need drugs and mutilation in order to "transform". Sick members of the "mental health" industry use their victims to further their own illness.
Is there any generation that did not have their challenges? I had to practice hiding under my desk to avoid being vaporized. None of us really thought that would work. My parents grew up during the depression and then dealt with WWII. The fact is that the world today is a more hospitable place than at any time in history.
I am not sure what role all these substances play. When I was a kid, paint and gas were both full of lead. Not only did dental fillings have mercury, I had a small vial of it that I used to play with. Once, I went to a summer camp where I was allowed to play with a Geiger counter and spent nuclear fuel. Every summer, my Dad had the house drenched with DDT. My Mom obliviously smoked and drank her way through my gestation. Bullying was a normal part of growing up. Somehow, we survived it all.
I agree that institutions are not just failing kids, in many cases, like the public schools, they are weaponizing them for political purposes, with no concern for how this affects them. This is made worse by the mental industry. Minor ticks and behavior problems used to be fixed by telling the kid to straighten up or else. Now, these problems have been given names and diagnoses, and instead of instructing kids to consciously modify their behavior, they are allowed to act out, or they are medicated, or both. And then we have the exploitation of normal adolescent anxiety, aka gender dysphoria. These are the things that are ruining kids today. We need to come down hard on the purple haired freaks who are doing this to our kids, especially the ones running the schools. I am hoping we get a start on this today.