Can you Protect your Child from a Mental Health Crisis by Removing Screens? Experts say ‘yes’.
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By Dwight Bain, LMHC, NCC & Certified 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 Prevention (CDC) conducts the Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBSS) study each year to track trends among those under the age of 18 in the United States and posted these shocking downward trends since 2010. Anxiety - ...