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

You wonder if the apps are in the show.

I'm just wondering if my daughter did have a depression.

Servere enough that she was suicidal actually.

Needed to be hospitalised 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 to connect with friends as much to negotiate.

What do you do when there's a crush or do you do it rejection?

What do you do with girls that look at you, 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 our behaviour 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 Instagram played Instagram, Facebook, MySpace, those all played them.

A decent sized role in that because I was constantly comparing myself to all the girls that we see, perfect lives, perfect body, airbrush to heaven.

And yeah, I was just sitting there feeling like I wasn't good enough and that I would never be worthy of being one of those perfect women in their presence.

I have not been on since COVID-19, I have not been on social media and I have never been happier.

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