Depressed girls use social media more, she says, but social media use doesn't seem to predict later depression. The real crisis, in Odgers' telling, is among adults: parental overdose deaths more than doubled between 2011 and 2021, and caregivers' mental health is among the strongest predictors of child outcomes.
The more exposed we are to an Internet of AI slop (AIS) and even the potential of career ladder disruption, the less happy young people are starting to be with regards to their trust and hope that AI will bring a better world.
A year into the pandemic, researchers found that the more time kids spent in online learning, the more depressed and anxious they got. During the second Covid wave, up to 70 per cent of teenagers in the province reported depression symptoms.
If you can acknowledge it and you can relax with it a little bit, very often it shortens its duration.
4mo ago
We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by drowning in our own thoughts.
4mo ago
We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by drowning in our thoughts. We cannot shut down our internal chatter, and it is driving us insane.
4mo ago
We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by drowning in our thoughts. We worry about things that may never happen, we get anxious about situations we cannot control, and we exhaust ourselves by living in a future that may never exist.
5mo ago
We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by drowning in our thoughts. We think too much and feel too little. Silence has become rather uncommon, and these days, even loneliness is a luxury we can't afford.
Our brains sometimes get stuck in a loop that replays the moment like a broken record. And because we want that simplicity, one moment can dominate our entire life — for the rest of our life.
Our brains sometimes get stuck in a loop that replays the moment like a broken record. In a recent New York Times feature, writer Taffy Brodesser-Akner says this about trauma: "Happy, well-adjusted people are all different. The traumatized are exactly alike."
5mo ago
We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by drowning in our thoughts. We cannot shut off our minds; our minds are words, words, words.
5mo ago
Underscored — save the words that stop you in your tracks.
