Hi, I would like to comment on, you're asking for comments on the teenagers that have depression.

You wonder if the apps are an issue.

I'm just when I say my daughter did have a depression, severe enough that she was suicidal

actually needed to be hospitalized a year ago. She was 15 years old.

This is Mary. It's not her real name because she wanted to share her story and

protect her daughter.

I think it was triggered by the isolation of COVID because right after COVID,

when she started going back to school, you could tell that she was very stressed and at intense

needs of connecting and connection.

And this boy came and she jumped into that relationship with an unusual intensity.

And he dropped her and I think that was too much and that triggered that depression on someone who's already anxious and stressed.

So I think that the fact that she was isolated and didn't have the didn't have to

connect with friends as much to negotiate what do you do when there's a crush or do you do with rejection?

What do you do with girls that look at you, that the competition with girls and

anything? All the negotiation, the social aspect of being with your peers.

They did not have during COVID and I could see in her behavior that it impacted her.

That's mom Mary.

Again, we're not using her real name

to protect her daughter.

Now this is Abby Raphael.

She lives in Port Angeles, Washington.

I think that very much so,

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