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Why Is Gen-Z Suffering from So Many Mental Health Issues? Sissy Goff and David Thomas

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🗓️ 12 March 2026

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Join us at Exiles Minneapolis!

Sissy Goff (LPC-MHSP) and David Thomas (LMSW) are children and family therapists and co-executive directors at Daystar Counseling Ministries, where they’ve served for over three decades. They’ve written several books together including their most recent book: Capable: How to Teach Your Kids the Strengths, Skills, and Strategies to Build Resilience, which is an awesome book. If you are a parent in 2026, then you need to check out this book—it’s immensely helpful

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anxiety with girls is just through the roof. The average age of onset used to be eight,

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now we're seeing it drop to six and seven. I mean, it's just so young. Girls are twice as likely

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as boys to deal with it. And then we're seeing more depression than I've probably seen in 33 years

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of counseling girls and more suicidality.

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Hey friends, welcome back to another episode of Theology and DeRah.

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The Exiles of Babylon Conference is right around the corner, April 30th and May 2nd in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

0:32.3

All the information is at or on TheologyDurah.com. Check it it out we're going to be talking about so many important

0:39.3

topics space is filling up so if you want to attend live then you got to sign up really soon

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if you want to attend virtually you can sign up the last second doesn't really matter so

0:48.7

there we go theologian draw dot com okay my guest today my two guests are sissy Goff and David Thomas. Sissy and David are

0:57.3

children and family therapists and co-executive directors at Daystar counseling ministries where they've

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served for over three decades. They've written several books together, including their most

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recent book, Capable, How to Teach Your Kids kids the strengths, skills, and strategies to build resilience,

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which is an awesome book.

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If you're a parent in 2026 and you need to check out this book, it's immensely helpful.

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This episode was recorded in person at Daystar Council Ministries in National Tennessee.

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So thanks to Sissy and David for letting me use their office to film this fascinating conversation.

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So please welcome to the show for the first time, the one and only, Sissy Gough and David Thomas.

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All right, Sissy and Dave, David.

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He just said you've heard said you for a turn.

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I'll answer to both anytime.

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Dave, David, David.

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