Welcome to the Eric Erickson Show podcast, Hour 2.

Hello America, welcome.

It is Eric Erickson here across the nation.

The phone number 877979373425, should you wish to be on the program.

We're going to deal with a difficult subject.

And it's actually a subject I talked about in 2022.

When the story came out, it was in April of 2022.

There's some new data though.

The rise of mental health distress among teens, particularly teen girls, has skyrocketed since

2007. And 2007 is a very important date. It was actually a date where the data had been largely

steady and level until 2007 and it started to go up and then in 2009 began to skyrocket.

The number of child suicides increased. The number of child suicides increased. and then in 2009 began to skyrocket.

The number of child suicides increased, the number of childhood levels of depression increased.

2007 is the important date because that's when the pivot began.

2009, it picked up steam, and it's no coincidence.

It's 2007 and 2009.

2007 was the introduction of the iPhone.

2009 began to be the release of apps on the iPhone and an updated user experience and Android kicking in.

The data on depression despair typically among teens is tied to technology.

When your kid can go on Snapchat or Instagram or variety of other services and see that all the people in their school who they follow on social media are out at parties that they didn't know about and weren't invited to.

They tend to get depressed.

The level of bullying increases as well, including some nasty kids who go out of their way to bully by creating fake accounts to target your kids,

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