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A rapidly growing smartphone usage in children and adolescents has led to a mental health pandemic. In this short video, Pulkit Sharma, clinical psychologist and author, reveals how and why the incidence and the prevalence of depression and anxiety in children and adolescents has increased manifold during the last decade.
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00:01Something very horrifying is happening and we as a society will regret this later.
00:09Our children and our teens are missing everything in real life while their digital hours continue to pile up.
00:18Did you know that prevalence of anxiety and depression in childhood and adolescence has increased by 150% during the
00:32last 10 years?
00:35150%! Isn't that alarming?
00:39You might be wondering why.
00:42The reason is simple.
00:44Children need deep, consistent and genuine real life connections to feel safe, happy and mentally stable.
00:57Having 50,000 followers but zero friends is a very common, very modern and a very tragic paradox.
01:08The truth is that our children and our teens are in a deep mess.
01:15And that's why we as parents, as teachers, as a society, as a nation and as a world need to
01:26ensure a normal childhood for our children and our teens.
01:32A childhood not so dependent on social media, smartphones and digital devices.
01:41Let us reselect a childhood that is very firmly grounded in the real world.
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