More Children Are Depressed and Anxious. Is Social Media Really Behind It?
America’s children and teens love social media. But concern is growing that using it is causing more harm than good, and ...
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Parents Claim They Purposely Sit Separate From Their 10-Year-Old Adopted Son On Planes To Help Him Overcome His Fear Of Strangers
To help their son overcome social anxiety, a set of parents took a controversial approach. Instead of sitting beside him on flights, they intentionally book his seat separately, encouraging him to ...
Everyone Pins Gen Z Anxiety On Parents — But We're Not The Ones To Blame
A friend recently called me in tears: Her son, a freshman in college, was having panic attacks. “It’s all my fault!” she ...
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How Perfectionism Contributes to Social Anxiety Disorder
Social anxiety disorder is sustained, in part, by distorted thoughts about oneself and the belief that one needs to be ...
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Limits on Children’s Independence Causing Depression, Anxiety
We no longer stunt our children’s bodies. Yet our new cultural norms stunt their curiosity and competence via excessive adult ...
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People with a history of child maltreatment prefer larger social distances towards friends and strangers
A new international study published in Translational Psychiatry has found that individuals who experienced childhood ...
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How Schools Can Help Roll Back the ‘Phone-Based Childhood’
School cellphone bans are key to combating skyrocketing rates of adolescent anxiety and depression, author Jonathan Haidt ...
Oklahoma lawmakers explore how to protect kids from social media dangers
Constant scrolling and feeling that their lives have been exposed to the world can make kids especially vulnerable to ...
INTERVIEW | Comparing life on social media makes teens feel isolated, inadequate, doubtful: Dr Sushma Gopalan
Prolonged exposure to social media can negatively impact mental health, especially among teenagers, and result in anxiety, ...
Excessive worry about your baby? Postpartum anxiety can be treated.
Some anxiety is normal, even beneficial, during pregnancy and after birth. But for some new mothers, anxiety begins to ...
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Kiwanis provides support for western NC children
Through the efforts of the membership of the Kiwanis Club of Robeson-Lumberton, 100 children in Burnsville impacted by ...