Hantavirus Headlines and the Teen Anxiety Crisis
The Heidi St. John Podcast
Heidi St. John
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🗓️ 13 May 2026
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
The fear machine is spinning up again—this time over Hantavirus—and I think we need to stop and ask what years of panic have done to our kids. Today, I’m talking about the teen anxiety crisis, the lingering trauma from COVID-era fear, social media, overmedication, and the spiritual confusion shaping this generation. I want to challenge parents to stop surrendering to fear and start leading their families with truth, wisdom, and discernment. Our kids need more than prescriptions and panic—they need hope anchored in truth.
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| 0:00.0 | Youth anxiety is back in the headlines again. The Kaiser Foundation is reporting that 19% of |
| 0:07.7 | adolescents are experiencing moderate to severe anxiety and 2 million adolescents reported a substance |
| 0:14.7 | use disorder in the past year. You guys, I talked to you about this a little bit last week |
| 0:19.1 | and my struggle with anxiety and what the Lord has shown me over the last 30 years. |
| 0:24.4 | Also, I want to talk today a little bit about fear. |
| 0:27.5 | Pontivirus is coming to get you. |
| 0:29.8 | It's going to get you. |
| 0:30.9 | And the panic pushers and the porn panic that took this nation captive and indeed the world captive in the middle |
| 0:38.9 | of COVID is threatening to do it again. We're going to talk about this, you guys, and I want |
| 0:43.2 | you to remember as we head in today's podcast, fear is not an emotion. Fear is a spirit, and it |
| 0:49.1 | isn't from the Lord. This is the Heidi St. John podcast. I'm glad you're here. Stick around. |
| 0:53.2 | I think you're going to be encouraged. Before we go any further, I want to say thank you to today's sponsor. |
| 1:14.2 | We're being sponsored in part by My FreedomCart.com. |
| 1:18.0 | If you guys are tired of feeling anxious and foggy-headed and exhausted, or if your body is |
| 1:23.4 | constantly fighting against you, this was something that I talked about when I shared my struggle |
| 1:28.8 | with anxiety and the anti-anxiety medications I spent so many years on. Well, more and more research |
| 1:36.0 | is showing us that the products that we use every single day, from household cleaners to plastics, |
| 1:42.6 | to personal care items, these can have a very serious impact on |
| 1:47.1 | our mental health and our emotional health. A lot of these chemicals act as endocrine disruptors |
| 1:52.5 | and neurotoxins. They affect our hormones. They affect our mood. They affect our focus. |
| 1:58.3 | And even our long-term brain health. And I want to invite you guys, |
| 2:02.8 | I'm going to be doing something very special on Tuesday, May 19th, at 9 a.m. Pacific time, |
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