It's Friday, and this is the Ramsey Call of the Day, part of the Ramsey Network.

Joining me today is Ramsey Personality, Dr. John Deloney.

John, there is a disturbing thing happening with teenagers and with COVID that you've been talking about on your show

and James, our producer, sent us an article on the loneliness issue and teen mental health

with this.

That is, it's scary.

Yeah, if you could construct a way to torture teenagers, it would be to isolate them, put them in a house with their family for a year or more, and force them to connect via social media, which are outlets that we know exacerbate anxiety, depression, these things,

make people feel less than,

make people just accelerate this disconnection, man.

And it's an absolute mess, Dave.

It's a mess.

So the kids not being back in the classroom is causing a,

well, I mean, we're seeing suicides increase.

We're seeing loneliness increase increase we're seeing loneliness

increase we're seeing just because the development human development requires

interaction with other humans and it's not and social media is not interaction no

and especially especially with kids especially with teenagers in middle school

we they are figuring out who they are in relationship with other people.

And when you take that off, it is just like cutting the string on a balloon and it's off, right?

There's just no way to ground when it's just you and a screen.

And then you just go through these curated images of what other people are supposedly doing,

what their lives are supposedly

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