Sunday, March 22, 2015

Are Smartphones Making Our Children Sick ???

Julie Lynn Evans has been a child psychotherapist for 25 years, working in hospitals, schools and with families, and she says she has never been so busy.

“In the 1990s, I would have had one or two attempted suicides a year – mainly teenaged girls taking overdoses, the things that don’t get reported. Now, I could have as many as four a month.”


And it’s not, she notes, simply a question of her reputation as both a practitioner and a writer drawing so many people to the door of her cosy consulting rooms in west London where we meet. “If I try to refer people on, everyone else is choc-a-bloc too. We are all saying the same thing. There has been an explosion in numbers in mental health problems amongst youngsters.”


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/health/children/11486167/Are-smartphones-making-our-children-mentally-ill.html


It's not merely smartphones per se. It's also:

  • Dysfunctional families,
  • Gender confusion,
  • Access to drugs,
  • Early exposure to situations they cannot handle, and/or
  • The general chaos that is modern society.

We have created a living hell, and our children are some of its casualties.

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