Name: Attention, Anxiety and Addiction: Are Smartphones and Social Media to Blame for Kids’ Mental Health?
Uploaded: 2025-08-19T12:14:00+00:00
Duration: 6 min 38 s
Description: Do smartphones and social media wreck kids’ lives? “Anxiety, depression, self-harm levels were pretty stable from the late 90s through 2010,” says Psychologist Jonathan Haidt, author of The Anxious Ge

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Do smartphones and social media wreck kids’ lives?

“Anxiety, depression, self-harm levels were pretty stable from the late 90s through 2010,” says Psychologist Jonathan Haidt, author of The Anxious Generation "All of a sudden, the rates go up. Way up.”

But are phones the cause?

I examine both sides in my newest video:

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