Generation Z's Collective Depression and 1950s "Housewives Disease"--a Parallel?

Young people's collective experience of anxiety and depression reminds me of the collective experience of "housewives disease" in the 1950s when a great deal of women were diagnosed with depression and prescribed tranquilizers. According to Columbia University professor Nicholas Bartlett, women in the 50's would go to the doctor and say that they felt lethargic and unhappy and they did not know why because all their needs were being met---they had a husband and children and a house and had all the new appliances. The doctors would prescribe Zanex saying that, yes, their apathy towards life was unexplained, when in reality, their basic psychological need of having a purpose in life was not being met because this wasn't accepted as a need for women at the time.

What basic psychological need is not being met in young people today that would lead them to collectively experience anxiety and depression at rates almost unheard of in history (a steep 15% rise)? They grew up dealing with the brunt of political unrest falling on them in form of school shootings, and then COVID19 and BLM, all while they were too young to vote. The depression and anxiety in today's youth could simply be a subconscious way to express dis-ease about the repression of their voices, considering the effects that the political climate has on their personal lives. Is an earlier voting age a basic need that we have not accepted yet? If the political decisions affect young people too, why aren't they allowed to have a say in the world they live in--they too have reproductive organs, pay taxes, have dealt with the effects of gun laws, breathe the air of the environmental crisis, and are losing loved ones due to the political handling of the coronavirus.