Why young people are more likely to suffer mental health issues than any other generation

We might be known as 'snowflakes' to the generations before us - insinuating we're 'less resilient' and 'more emotionally vulnerable' than our elders - but new research indicates that the millennial generation (as well as Generation Z) are actually more prone to mental health issues than any other.

A recent study, published in the Psychological Medicine journal, analysed same-sex twins born in 1994 and 1995 in England and Wales, assessing their experiences of loneliness and mental health among other things. What the study found was that the young people who reported feeling lonely were more than twice as likely to suffer from mental illness than those who weren't lonely.