“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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