“In the 1990s, I would have had one or two attempted suicides a year – mainly teen aged girls taking overdoses, the things that don’t get reported. Now, I could have as many as four a month.... “f 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. Something is clearly happening,” she says, “because I am seeing the evidence in the numbers of depressive, anorexic, cutting children who come to see me. And it always has something to do with the computer, the Internet and the smartphone.”She's basically saying that kids are exposed to too much stuff, to too much information. They get too much access to wisdom too fast, and making more and more of them increasingly depressed. I understand that kids today have fast access to knowledge we had to go out of our way to find at a library or bookstore when we were kids.
However, rather than jump to conclusions, lets consider some other things that are going on in the world today that might cause kids to become increasingly depressed.
- Kids being taught that God, the harbinger of hope and faith, does not exist
- Kids being taught that man made global warming is destroying the planet
- Kids learning hearing doomsday predictions in schools
- High rate of divorce that has kids separated from their families and friends
- High rate of single parent households
- High rate of kids growing up in poverty
- Kids being taught that they are bad if they respect traditional marriage
- Kids being taught to be afraid of eating foods they love based on theories
- Kids, many of whom are overweight, taught that being overweight is bad
- Government programs taking away the incentive to work, thus leading to families trapped in poverty
- Kids not being able to eat the feel good foods they want to eat while in school
- Fear that Muslims will try to kill them
- Not being able to speak the truth about Muslims
- Christian children not being able to pray in school, or being ridiculed for talking about their beliefs
- Conservative children being mocked and ridiculed for talking about their beliefs
- Children hearing their parents called Nazis, homophobes, idiots, gramma haters, due to their beliefs
- Christians being persecuted all over the world, and no one doing anything about it
- The country being "fundamentally transformed" from capitalism to socialism.
- A rise in laws that tell people what they can and cannot do; laws that take away liberties
- Kids not being told the truth about the founding of this country, and being ridiculed when they do
- Kids being told they are idiots for believing in a "fictional, mythological Bible."
- An endless parade of hate, fear, and vitriol being taught in schools.
- Kids being told they cannot grow up to be better than their parents.
- Parents having to go bankrupt because of the poor economy
- Parents losing their jobs because of the poor economy
- Parents being forced to work two or three part time jobs because of Obamacare
- Fear that they will have less freedom than their parents
- Fear of terrorism
- Fear that they will be forced to go to war
- Fear of a Muslim Caliph
- Fear of Russia taking over Europe
- Fear of WWIII
I mean, I could go on. What do you think. Is too much access to wisdom making kids depressed? Or is it all the exposure to hate, fear and vitriol?
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