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Getting help is essential. (lemmy.world)
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[–] kbotc@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Teens are dating less, playing fewer youth sports, spending less time with their friends, and making fewer friends to begin with. In the late 1970s, more than half of 12th graders got together with their buddies almost every day. By 2017, only 28 percent did.

Teen loneliness has surged in the past decade, alongside teen hopelessness, depression, and suicidal thinking. According to the CDC’s Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System, the share of teenage girls who say they experience “persistent feelings of sadness or hopelessness” increased from 36 to 57 percent, and the share of girls who said they’ve contemplated suicide increased 50 percent in the same decade. Neither the decline in socializing nor the surge in mental distress has any precedent on record.

https://apple.news/A5opMGGCuQsi4F_3WhjsEKQ

We’re obsessed with therapy because we are breaking our brains with loneliness and it’s crashing our brain’s ability to cope with life.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

You know something odd? My daughter was in public school and practically never left her room. She was seriously bullied, which didn't help, to the point that we had to take her out of school and put her in online school. Now she wants to go out and do things constantly and has an actual friend group.

She still spends half her time on TikTok or whatever, but she's actually got a social life now and it required us taking her out of the environment where you would think it would be best for her socially.

[–] escaped_cruzader@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

She still spends half her time on TikTok or whatever

You might need therapy if you let her spend that much time on TikTok...