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The ZDoggMD Show

AMA 12: What Is Social Media Doing To Our Daughters?

The ZDoggMD Show

ZDoggMD LLC

Spirituality, Medicine, Religion & Spirituality, Health & Fitness

4.83K Ratings

🗓️ 15 February 2019

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

iGen girls appear to be especially vulnerable to the deleterious effects of social media on their mental health. Here's why, and how we can better keep them safe. Watch the video and check out links at zdoggmd.com/incident-report-227 You can subscribe and support the show on Facebook for 4.99/month at facebook.com/becomesupporter/zdoggmd. Supporters will have access to CME credits for select shows (using a laptop or desktop to sign up is best!) You can also access CME for eligible shows by supporting us on Patreon at patreon.com/zdoggmd if you've killed your Facebook account. Hit me up with comments and feedback: zubin@turntablehealth.com Please leave a review and subscribe to the podcast, it helps us a lot! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Hey, what's up ZPack at your boys Z.com D. Okay, check it out. As a father of two daughters,

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this is a very important episode to me and if you have kids of any gender but girls in particular,

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I need you to listen to this. Increasing data is showing an alarming trend among young girls born after 1994,

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the so-called I-GEN, Generation Z. What we're seeing is increasing rates of depression,

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increasing rates of anxiety, and people are like, well, maybe we're just over-diagnosing it,

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maybe people are more of snowflakes and they're coming forth and saying, I'm depressed and so on and so forth.

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Yeah, sure, you could theorize that, except that the suicide rate among these girls is increasing significant.

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That means this is real and the question is why, and the second question is what can we do about it?

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So Jonathan Height and others in the Coddling of the American Mind have shown this trend to be caused by likely a couple of things.

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The first thing is we are creating a generation of very fragile children and the reason is we're over protecting them,

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we have this culture of safety, we don't let them go out and experience the world and take risks

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because children are by nature, antifragile, they get stronger from a degree of adversity, we've been protecting them.

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