The Anxiety Doctor: Social Media Is Causing A Mental Health COLLAPSE (& It's Only Getting WORSE!)

I absolutely agree with everything this man says!
I believe social media is dangerous for adults' mental health. I can't even imagine how dangerous it is for children.
This is powerful information that we all need so much to hear.
Many thanks.

My experience with my American friends who are parents is they many times straddle the line between parent and partner. For example texting their kid a grocery or to do list or vacation selfies or for comfort during a difficult time ect. Not often have I heard of them texting about scores on tests or academics in general. The phone is an emotional support animal for many adults and the child is simply the one who has the biggest stake in their parents' stress and breakdowns. Getting the phones out of school should be the number one priority for Fall 2024. Perhaps by getting our priorities straight these kids will find they not only like not having that leash around their necks, they actually do not need it as much as the corporate conglomerates would have them believe.

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Yes. I totally agree. After listening the podcast, I got the mind-blowing idea.

I feel like asking children about how they are feeling helps,only if they are in a safe space. You can't ask children questions on sensitive topics in a classroom it will lead to more anxiety and depression

I am so glad that you brought up the latest research about social emotional education in the classroom. I am an elementary schoolteacher, and I have long thought that we’ve taken away so much playtime from children that now we need to compensate with social emotional education. This has been my gut feeling from what I’ve observed among students. I’ve also noticed that when we share about our feelings, it seems like students tend to want to express the negative feelings, and when asked why they’re feeling that way it is usually very superficial reasons that I don’t believe we need to take time to discuss. It makes total sense that they just need to get out and play more and face adversity.
Could you share where I can access some of this research you were talking about please?

This was a great convo

Very Insightful!

1. stop companies/ads/notifications from taking your attention. your attention is so valuable. give it to things that matter 2. don't take the easy route. re-humanise. more time with real people, communicate in real life instead on the phone. 3. time in nature. we are further away from nature. go back to nature. walk slowly. no headphones. notice the beautiful world

No one saw a giant gender bias in the psychologists? Also, "developing countries" are you ok?

In which country? CGTN The Point-Hub-Heat, RT International, Telasur, Middle East Eye, Aljazeera, TRT World, Shanghai Eye, CCTV...Reporterfy Media-Cyrus Janssen. Poverty alleviation completed in many countries how?

exactly stop blaming women for males issues blame technology‼️🧿

I’m 26. I grew up on social media. I recently deleted it (116 days to be exact). My brain has never been calmer. I’ve never been happier. I love my body more. I’m happier with my life. I’m getting closer to God. I try & tell other adults just delete it for two weeks if you’re not making any money in these apps & they think I’m crazy. Social media is literally driving lust and materialism

I am 22 years old and I very much agree to what it’s been said here, as I was given a very first version of ipad at very young age around 12, I wish I was at least told or been taught of the use of it, I did not know how to utilise so I played games instead.

Now that I reflected, I do not blame my parents as they tried as hard to make me happy, as well as to educate me, but I do think it was better to given restriction or make kids understand the best use of technology, not being controlled!

Nice contents.

This is so well put together

I’m certain social media doesn’t help.. but I think attachment problems within the family are the main problem… social media is filling in as the attachment figure just as a substance can… I would refer to Dr Gabor Mate or Dr Gordon Neufeld’s work

Seeing a genocide in Gaza unfold for almost a year now, probably has something to do with it.

The youth are angry at the silence and complicity of our media, and leaders

So girls do better in school cause patriarchy just teach us to stay quiet and sit still. Maybe take a think or two on that....

No ones gonna talk about the societal collapse of the nuclear family structure and lack of community in person we have anymore? The secularisation of society among other things leading to this… this is what started my anxiety as a child. Because one of my parents’ family structure was ruined, the trauma continued. How about look at that

To be clear, JH is saying _children- and their developing brains should not be exposed to these very adult things (i.e. hard-core porn, vivid video games, etc.).

What do we do with the seed? We burn the seed, a burning desire to be free must be lit inside. The fire inside must remain for as long as it takes to light your way, consuming any seed we missed. Scatter the soil to extinguish the flames. In time due time thoroughly till the soil. Let all that is dead fertilize and enrich the new crop. Generously plant and diligently water your carefully chosen seed. Take time to pull weeds insuring your delicate seedlings take firm root, providing a glorious harvest with plenty to share.

Wow lies about millennials already. My whole life my parents coddled my gen Z siblings. They always want the stage. It’s not up to gen z. Can’t wait for gen z to grow into 40 yr olds and get a dose of their own medicine.

There needs to be a phone that is just a phone with programmable buttons that can only call the number programmed a a no other number can call in

Yes. I actually thought it technically started with the younger Millennials, but I guess I was wrong. It's probably just because I was a severely panicked child with no apparent reason for it. Any other Millennials?

My hubby is not a Gen Z but. Millennial and the level of addiction he has on social media is overwhelming. He can be on tv and his phone the same time😭😭😭 Every year he has to go to mental hospital to be assessed and sometimes he gets hospitalized for 2 weeks or so this year they put him on a 2month doze and these medications bringing strain in my marriage. Especially coz he can't function sexually when taking them. The medication are equally not helping since he's still on weed and alcohol addiction.
It's draining me. Everyday😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢

I am part of Gen-Z and last year I recognized that spending so much time on social media and watching TV everyday was having a negative impact on my mental health. When I was spending time on my phone, I began to notice that after say an hour had passed, whichever problems I was facing at that time in my life suddenly felt so much worse than they had felt before the screen time. My confidence to resolve issues was effected, my emotions were heightened after prolonged exposer to screen time. Primarily because screen time numbs and distracts us. Preventing us from regulating our emotions. I've now cut out off social media amd addictive games from my phone and my mental health has improved drastically

Loved this!! ❤

I’m a licensed therapist and feel so grateful for this conversation. It informs my work and inspires me to address the no phone policy in schools and access to smart phones 16+

I am a genzee and I approve

I can control social media use if I want to I am a genz , but growing up I am OK

I think trigger warnings in a lot of cases are kinda silly because exposure is good for healing, but I feel the need to warn people about this one. Around 56 minutes (not sure exactly because I can’t go back and listen again) he mentions, with specifics, a video containing extreme animal abuse. I had trouble getting through the rest of the day, had to take a benzo to sleep, and woke up this morning from intense nightmares related to what he mentioned. So if you’re sensitive to these things, I recommend not watching past that time. Just a heads up.

Anxiety is a real though, I am an adult now but still get anxious of social situations a lot

I remember when I was un primary school and we used to go and play in the patio with the kids those were one of the beat memories

This really helped me in so many ways. So many things need to be done to help our kids. I am going to check out the sites and see what I can do to help this mission. Thank you

Its so easy to go onto tiktok and scroll your day away. I try to avoid it. My partner and her dad are addicted to their phones and social media. We can be on vacation and they are so disconnected from having a conversation or enjoying th3 moment because they are consumed by their phones. We are talking about a 40yr old and 75yrs old. Its not just kids. Social media is a drug. How do you point out to adults to stop or point out they have a problem.

Jai shree raM 🚩🚩

I'd argue that age verification for access to porn is currently absurd. You can just press a button. I would have liked for the interview to dig deeper into the mental health effects of early exposure to hardcore porn for boys, and its link to addictive behavior and depersonalization. I once tried to block all porn from my phone and couldn't be done. Even google blockers are just ridiculous. We should be protecting boys from this as well. Reliable and unavoidable age verification should be the norm online.

30 year old, feel like old Gen Z/young Millenial. It was nice having my flip phone in middle school because I could ask my mom to bring me things that I forgot or tell me who would pick me up. But using my phone in class was enforced, like if the teacher saw it, they took it

I want to say a couple things, when I was young in the late 90s, early 2000s, my mom was very vocal about stranger danger Online, I would never use my real name or age, I would always use a Male name (see username lol), and I was never allowed to use social sites, like club penguin. I feel like this moral panic around the internet has waited way too much! And this was before smart phones! This was only when we had a family computer in the living room.

Thank you

THANK YOU SO MUCH for this episode! I sent it to our school, to teachers to look at. Love from Prague! And please, more of this kind. thank you

Not sure he knows but smoking norm went from smoking cigarettes to smoking weed norm 😭

How true this is

that he is talking about how social media as horrible influence of young people, which is no news, but then doesn't even realise himself how he, now a very mature in age individual cannot even see through the mainstream lies of his country´s media and state, is a joke. Yes there was no social media when he was growing up, but boy he was groomed and has no questioning thoughts about that obviously since he says " there would be many fewer threats to democracy if we did that, Russian agents and Chinese agents couldn't , like, just drop crazy rumours and make us hate each other in America the way they do" An absolute ignorant brainwashed man.

I think ppl are just realizing how shit the world is

BRILLIANT! Thank you for starting this conversation, Jay