meh - I think that young people from affluent backgrounds are more aware that they can seek therapy if they want/need to - it's the less privileged kids who struggle on alone and unsupported that worry me more.
Though having said that I think the article raises a fair point. I was at an intensely academic, highly selective private girls' school where we were constantly driven to achieve and made to feel failures if we didn't, because both our parents and the school 'knew we had the potential'.
It worked brilliantly for some girls who throve on the pressure to be the best, but (leaving aside the drugs and the smoking) eating disorders, depression, self-harm, parasuicide and serious suicide attempts were rife. Of 75 girls in my upper fifth (ie GCSE year), three were sectioned.
Of course, the drive to get us all into equally high-pressure courses (medicine, law, vet med) at prestigious universities meant that for many girls the pressure didn't let up once they left school, and in some cases they're still urging themselves on to earn more, publish more, gain more prestige, to succeed.
I hope they're happier now than they were then but I seriously doubt it.
I wonder how many will become miserable, competitive Surrey-Mummys, pushing their kids through Baby French and ballet in the hope it will give them the edge over their peers that they worked so hard to gain for themselves.