A lifestyle to Doom

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    https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/nov/14/teen-suicides-rise-with-smartphone-social-media-us/


    By Laura Kelly - The Washington Times - Tuesday, November 14, 2017

    A study shows that suicide rates among teenagers have risen along with their ownership
    of smartphones and use of social media, suggesting a disturbing link between technology and teen self-harm.
    Citing federal data and two nationally representative surveys of more than 500,000 adolescents, researchers
    found a strong correlation between the time teens began using smartphones a decade ago and a sharp rise in reports
    of serious mental health issues.
    From 2010 to 2015, a record number of teenagers were reporting depressive symptoms and overloading mental
    health clinics, while suicide rates climbed for the first time in decades, said psychologist Jean Twenge, lead author
    of the study, which was published Tuesday in the journal Clinical Psychological Science.
    “I’ve never seen such sudden, large changes,”
    Ms. Twenge said in an interview with The Washington Times, noting that the biggest increase occurred within a single year.
    “In this case, we tried to just go systematically through possible explanations and rule them in or out and, at the end of the day,
    the pronounced increase in smartphone ownership seems like the most logical explanation,” she said. “It was by far the largest
    change in teens lives between 2012 and 2015.”
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    Australian figures of the same would probably be equal of US.
    Our politically correct beaurocrats will shield/massage
    the Truth for as long as they can.
    Teens are teens and the phone-mania is so interconnected
    via borderless acceptance that no amount of wrist slashing will
    change this pattern.
    I have an urge to implicate Donald Trump in increasing popularity of social media.,
    However and grudgingly, he is using it without getting depressed about it.
    Contrary to 'depression', he used it in this example to get some manners
    out of naughty boys on China escapade:
    https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/nov/15/donald-trump-asks-if-ucla-players-will-thank-him-a/
    Will they ever learn?

    Cheers,
    Last edited by simgrund: 16/11/17
 
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