News, Generation at risk: America’s youngest facing mental health crisis

[Johnboy60]

Alex Crotty was just 11 when things started feeling wrong.

It wasn't just a matter of being unhappy. She always felt empty and miserable — never content or connected to other children. For years, she suffered alone, filled with shame. She switched schools, but that didn't help.

What's happening to our kids? Depression, anxiety crisis deepening in U.S.

 

[Winken]

They don't graduate from the world of make-believe. They huddle in their bedrooms, typing away on their i-phones are whatever they are called, dreaming up all sorts of situations, especially ideals, embellishing their imagination, but when they attempt to put it in play in everyday life, outside of their room, at school, riding around in the car with daddy in control, sitting in the backseat with headsets on, still typing away on their........... you get the picture. Trying to make their hypothetical dreaming come true, they fail, friends fail, families fail. Sure enough, invention comes to the fore. They invent the scenarios they want so desperately to experience. The result is wild imagination, resorting to "tall tales" when around others of their age, to parents, grandparents, teachers.........living in the world of make-believe, with no way out.

 

[Babe Ruth]

They don't graduate from the world of make-believe. They huddle in their bedrooms, typing away on their i-phones are whatever they are called, dreaming up all sorts of situations, especially ideals, embellishing their imagination, but when they attempt to put it in play in everyday life, outside of their room, at school, riding around in the car with daddy in control, sitting in the backseat with headsets on, still typing away on their........... you get the picture. Trying to make their hypothetical dreaming come true, they fail, friends fail, families fail. Sure enough, invention comes to the fore. They invent the scenarios they want so desperately to experience. The result is wild imagination, resorting to "tall tales" when around others of their age, to parents, grandparents, teachers.........living in the world of make-believe, with no way out.

Winken, Interesting perspective.. I'm a parent; I also wonder if all the solitarily, indoor gaming is denying modern kids from physically exorcising their natural, nervous energy. Kids have so much energy, that used to be released playing pick-up, sandlot sports.. riding bikes etc. If it's not being released, it could be turning unnaturally inward & corroding their minds/spirit (?)
Parentally, I'm trying hard to balance indoor & outdoor activities..

 

[Winken]

Winken, Interesting perspective.. I'm a parent; I also wonder if all the solitarily, indoor gaming is denying modern kids from physically exorcising their natural, nervous energy. Kids have so much energy, that used to be released playing pick-up, sandlot sports.. riding bikes etc. If it's not being released, it could be turning unnaturally inward & corroding their minds/spirit (?)
Parentally, I'm trying hard to balance indoor & outdoor activities..

Warping mind-mental-emotional capabilities is a likely result. The Spirit, of course, us "unwarpable" . However, a mind stayed on the secular avoids the input of the Holy Spirit, leaving kids sitting in church playing games.