Edelweiss MF CEO Radhika Gupta Reveals Why Young Generation Is Depressed

We all are aware of the darker side of scrolling on the screens for hours. Despite this, we are hooked to pictures and videos, deliberately manipulating our minds and making ourselves prone to depression in some way or another. Recently, Edelweiss Mutual Fund CEO Radhika Gupta, who often shares valuable opinions on social media, shed light on the reason behind the rise in depression among young people.

According to Gupta, the pressure to curate a social media friendly life is one of the significant factors that contribute to depression. Besides, the urge to become someone else instead of embracing your uniqueness has intensified feelings of self-doubt among young people, which further leads to depression.

Gupta, while answering a user asking the reason why young people are depressed, shared on X (formerly Twitter), “The pressure of being someone because their life looks cool on Instagram, rather than being your unique self.”

Radhika Gupta is a mother and an entrepreneur. Not long ago, she even shared some tips to make the right balance between personal as well as professional life. In a post on Instagram, she shared a clip of her two-year-old son trying to climb on to the stage to meet her during a Zerodha event and described it as a “beautiful chaos” in her caption.

Along with the video, she shared, “When you go to Bangalore for a working weekend and have to take the kiddo along. And just as you are ready to start speaking, Baby Shark looks upto the stage and makes his move. Because the person on stage is not CEO or Shark, but first Mama and always Mama. And so he makes his move. And finance and snuggles mix themselves just like that.”

Meanwhile, the depression and other mental health illnesses among young adults in India continues to increase. According to UNICEF, one out of seven Indian youths between the age of 15 and 24 are depressed, indicating the challenges around mental health, particularly among the younger generation.