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Can You Protect Your Child from a Mental Health Crisis?

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  Can you Protect your Child from a Mental Health Crisis by Removing Screens? Experts say ‘yes’. by Dwight Bain, LMHC, NCC, & Certified Leadership Coach Everywhere you look there are signs of a tsunami sized mental health crisis shattering our children and stealing their childhood. Teen boys are struggling, while girls appear to be drowning, especially middle-school age girls. Most young people are affected, and some to a life-threatening level. Consider the newest CDC study about the negative impact of social media on young females where they found: ·       54% of teen girls report being persistently sad ·       32% have thought of killing themselves ·       24% have planned on killing themselves ·       13% have tried It is not just young adolescent females experiencing a mental health crisis. The Centers for Disease Control and...