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Well, today's show has kind of a double-edgedged sword question, and that is, how do we enjoy the real world apart from phones and computer monitors and screens?

How do you do that as a mom or a dad?

And then how do you help your child who is probably as reliant or more so than you are on that technology?

I'm John Fuller with Dr. Danny Werta, who heads up our parenting team and Danny.

From what I can tell, all the science, all the research, all the stats are pointing to kids

are really becoming a little bit unhinged here because of over-the-top phone usage and reliance.

Yeah, certainly anxiety and depression have increased.

It probably is not new information for people listening that since 2012 on social media

and the smartphones combined together, there has been a tremendous ongoing increase of anxiety,

depression, even self-harm, death by suicide,

loneliness, meaninglessness, big, big markers of mental health that are not going in the right

direction. When I first started providing therapy for families in the early 2000s, late 1990s as an intern at that point

in the mental health center.

There were no phones really.

Back then, it was, we had pagers.

And the anxiety among kids, the generalized anxiety was there, but it has heightened tremendously, especially in the social

anxiety side and the body image issues side. Those have skyrocketed just in the past decade.

And if you're like most parents, you'll say, well, it won't happen in our home.

It's not us.

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