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1400 Clinicians on What’s Driving Youth Mental Health Crisis

iPHONES OR TIKTOK – April 10, 2024 - Many clinicians who work with young patients with mental health issues agree they lack enough resources to treat kids and that patients are worse off now than before the pa... Read More...

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Residents Concerned Over 5G Towers

VIDEO – DANGER IN THE AIR – April 10, 2024 - She quickly learned that the concrete slab was a 5G tower. It has a health warning that reads it “can cause cancer and/or birth defects or other reproductive harm.”“I’m ... Read More...

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Social Media Expert Hears ‘wake-up call’ on Youth Screen Addiction

VIDEO – PLEASE KEEP SCROLLING – April 7, 2024 - “I started as a voice in the wilderness about eight, nine years ago, saying that digital media can be addicting. But that was just the price of admission. Digital med... Read More...

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Teens Mental Health – Anxiety and Smartphones

CHILDHOOD CANCELED – April 3, 2024 - Social psychologist Jonathan Haidt’s “The Anxious Generation,” published last week, argues that the smartphone-driven “great rewiring of childhood” is causing an “epidemic ... Read More...

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Psychological Paths From Loneliness to Smartphone Addiction

NEVER BE ALONE AGAIN – April 5, 2024 - The study was prompted by concerns over digital addiction, a problem recognized by the American Psychiatric Association and the World Health Organization as a public heal... Read More...

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Time to Fight Digital Addiction in Kids

OR IS IT TOO LATE? – March 30, 2024 - American kids are experiencing an unprecedented mental health crisis that is driven, in large part, by how much of their day is spent online. The numbers are horrifying: r... Read More...

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Smartphones Are Hurting Our Kids

SOUL DAMAGE – March 31, 2024 - “We’ve never seen anything like this. There’s massive evidence of harm,” Jonathan Haidt says. “It happened in many countries at the same time, at a specific point in time: the mo... Read More...

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Screen Time Addiction Needs to be Dealt with NOW

DISTRACTIONS FROM ONESELF – April 1, 2024 - Getting addicted is the most logical thing for the brain to do. Sure, accomplishing a goal such as finishing an economics chapter, or going to the gym, would release... Read More...

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Who Do You Blame When Kids Are Addicted to Their iPhones?

THEY LOOK SO HAPPY...AND INSANE – March 30, 2024 - What the author is implying is that we parents need to start acting differently. Our kids’ reliance on mobile devices to pass the time starts long before high... Read More...

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Psychiatrists Detail Harrowing Case of Internet-Induced Erotomania

YOU MEAN GLORIA FROM MODERN FAMILY ISN’T AVAILABLE? – March 28, 2024 - Erotomania manifests as a persistent, delusional belief that an individual, typically of higher social status, is in love with the person experie... Read More...

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Screens Poison Kids’ Minds

HIJACKED BRAINS – March 22, 2024 - Teenagers are inundated with notifications, with one study estimating they get 237 pings a day. “Smartphones and social media fundamentally changed the way teens spend their ... Read More...

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Kids’ Phone-Based Existence InHuman

CHILDHOOD CANCELED – March 21, 2024 - “Suppose that when your first child turned ten, a visionary billionaire whom you’ve never met chose her to join the first permanent human settlement on Mars … Would you let her g... Read More...

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Life Without TikTok

INDIA BLOCKS TikTok – March 15, 2024 - What happened when the world’s most populous nation turned off TikTok. In June 2020, after a violent clash on the India-China border that left at least 20 Indian soldiers dead, ... Read More...

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U.S. House Votes Next Week on TikTok Ban

BAN THIS! – March 7, 2024 - A powerful House committee advanced a bill on Thursday that could lead to a nationwide ban against TikTok on all electronic devices, renewing lawmakers’ challenge to one of the world... Read More...

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Mark Zuckerberg Made $28 Billion on Feb. 2

ON OTHER’S LABOR – Unless he sells or buys more shares of company stock, and assuming the quarterly dividend remains at the same level, Zuckerberg will also gain off of the company’s dividend payouts to the tu... Read More...

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Mark Zuckerberg – “It’s Not My Fault.”

IT NEVER IS – Feb. 23, 2024 - FACEBOOK, INSTAGRAM CEO is arguing he can’t be held personally liable for accusations that his platforms have led to kids being addicted to social media. A ruling in the bill... Read More...

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Do You Have a Phone Addiction?

WHO DOESN’T? – Feb. 12, 2034 - During a recent executive program, we conducted a micro-experiment. Participants opted to surrender their mobile phones for one evening and get them back the next morning. During... Read More...

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We Document Our Whole Lives Online – but Should We?

YOUR 15 MINUTES IS OVER – Feb. 8, 2024 - ‘You Don’t Need To Document Everything’ questioned it all. The essay was promoted by a video taken on New Year’s Eve in Paris, which showed hundreds of people recording the f... Read More...

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Nearly Half of All UK Teens Feel Addicted to Social Media

SO AM I – Feb. 2, 2024 - In recent years, there has been growing concern about the addictive qualities of social media. Last year, the US surgeon general issued a public health advisory on the risks that social media... Read More...

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NYC Mayor Classifies Facebook as ‘public health hazard’

IT’S ABOUT TIME – Jan. 24, 2024 - “Companies like TikTok, YouTube, and Facebook are fueling a mental health crisis by designing their platforms with addictive and dangerous features,” he said. “We cannot stand by and... Read More...

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I Switched to a Flip Phone for a Month

AND FLIPPED OUT – Jan. 6, 2024 - Was it inconvenient? Yes. Did T9 texting drive me crazy? Definitely. Was it worth doing? Absolutely. My biggest regret of 2023 was my relationship to my smartphone, or my “tech append... Read More...

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6 Ways To Cure Your Crippling Phone Addiction

YOU KNOW YOU NEED TO READ THIS – Jan. 4, 2024 - Are you resolving to cut down your screen time in 2024? Here are a cyberpsychologist’s best tips for using smartphones mindfully … And while social media can be ... Read More...

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What Science Says about Social Media Addiction

“Just like a slot machine!” – Oct. 25, 2023 - Experts who study internet use say that the magnetic allure of social media arises from the way the content plays to our neurological impulses and wiring, such that consu... Read More...

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Snapchat on Trial For Murder

HORRIBLE – Oct. 18, 2023 - Soon, the sheriff arrived and immediately administered Naloxone, a nasal spray that reverses the effects of an opioid overdose. But Badger, a pharmacist, was confused. Brooke was a t... Read More...

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Screen Time Linked to Psychological Distress

LOOKING WITHIN IS EVEN SCARIER – Oct. 28, 2023 - "The growing interest and use of screen-based technologies throughout the world made me think about its pros and cons,” study author Adeena Ahmed, a clinical ps... Read More...

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Why the Internet Isn’t Fun Anymore

DID IT STOP WORKING? – Oct. 9, 2023 - If you tried to talk about anything else, the platform’s algorithmic feed seemed to sweep you into irrelevance. Users who pay for Elon Musk’s blue-check verification syste... Read More...

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Officials Link Mental Health Issues to Teens Social Media’s Lure

SELFIE STICKS TOO – Oct. 11, 2023 - Convinced social media platforms are fueling a mental health crisis among the nation’s youth, public officials in New York announced new legislation Wednesday that would res... Read More...

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School sues Facebook, TikTok, other Social Media Owners for Addictive Products

AUDIO – TECK NECK FOREVER – Aug. 25, 2023 - The social media “addiction” has led to the district to provide more mental health resources to its student body, amid rising rates of depression, anxiety, and suicidal tho... Read More...

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The EU Wants to Cure Your Teen’s Smartphone Addiction

BUT YOU BOUGHT IT FOR THEM – Aug. 16, 2023 - China wants to limit screen time to 40 minutes for children aged under eight, while the U.S. state of Utah has imposed a digital curfew for minors and parental consent to ... Read More...

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