164 - Gen Z and the Agony of a Screen-based Life with Freya India

Gender: A Wider Lens

Sasha Ayad and Stella O'Malley

Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Society & Culture

4.6 • 961 Ratings

🗓️ 17 May 2024

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Stella and Sasha welcome writer and columnist Freya India to the show this week, offering deep insights about the impact of screens and technology on young people and practical advice for balanced living in the digital age. They explore Gen Z's relationship with Instagram and dating apps, the fixation on mental illness and identity, and the misleading notion that you can buy your authentic self.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Stella O'Malley, a psychotherapist in Ireland.
0:04.4	And I'm Sasha Ayyad, an adolescent therapist in the United States.
0:08.6	And this is Gender, a wider lens, a podcast dedicated to the shifting concepts around gender in our contemporary culture.
0:16.0	Through in-depth interviews, personal stories, and psychological exploration, we seek to open up the discourse around this hot button issue.
0:25.0	Join us as we look at gender from a wider lens.
0:30.0	Hey Stella.
0:32.0	How's it going Sasha? How are you? I'm doing well. How is life in Stella land?
0:38.0	It is good. I have the eternally too busy problem and I'm determined one day I'm going to knock this
0:46.8	into touch and I'm going to learn how to live a more balanced life but things are going
0:51.5	well otherwise though even though I am too even though it's great to hear well I can only
0:56.0	imagine you have a lot going on and you know talking about balance talking about life
1:00.4	today's conversation was incredible because you know you and I have
1:04.0	often said to each other kind of in private you know how have we not done an
1:08.6	episode all about technology and screens and you're a deep dive into that and without really meaning to the and into such a deep dive about screens and technology in a way that frankly I haven't heard many
1:26.2	other people talking about.
1:28.8	Yeah, what was lovely about it is it evolved into.
1:32.2	We didn't decide we were going to kind of nail screens and the impact of them.
1:36.0	It evolved into a very thoughtful reflective conversation about how living through screens
1:42.3	impacts our psyche and our way of being.
1:45.6	And like Freya is a voice of her generation.
1:49.6	Freya's voice is very important.
1:51.7	I really think if you're trying to understand where your kid is coming from.
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