Is Social Media to Blame for Teens' Depression?
Change Your Brain Every Day
Dr Daniel Amen
4.7 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 11 April 2018
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
A recent study revealed that children who begin social media at age 10 are more likely to suffer from depression by the time they turn 15. So what exactly is it about social media that causes this depression? In this episode of The Brain Warrior's Way Podcast, Dr. Daniel Amen and Tana Amen describe what the effects social media has on a child's psyche.
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| 1:01.0 | Welcome back. |
| 1:02.0 | Today we're going to talk about a topic that is just making parents |
| 1:06.9 | crazy and that is social media and children and there's a new study that links increased time spent on social media |
| 1:17.2 | by 10-year-old girls to a decline in their well-being by the age of 15. |
| 1:24.0 | So I'm just curious, what social media are 10-year-old girls spending a lot of time on? |
| 1:30.8 | You know, I think parents more and more are giving kids cell phones and iPads and |
| 1:40.4 | they're not doing a good job of putting parental controls on them. I just talked to |
| 1:49.6 | parents of a 14 year old boy and all he and all of his friends are talking about porn. |
| 1:55.5 | Oh no no no that that's no question within by the time Chloe was in junior high |
| 2:01.8 | seventh grade all the boys had porn on their phones |
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