Teens are not okay.
Young people are more upset than ever before – and social media, applications intended for fun and commitment, is one of the culprits.
Santiago Gonzalez-Winthrop, 16, told Yahoo News that he was “excited” to go home after school and do homework. Now, he is chronically upset, “looking at the class calculation” in the classroom or scaring his family’s “detox days” in which he wants his cellphone.
The screen time, he said, is his boredom crutch, moving on Instagram, Tiktok or other social media applications to see what his friends have to do.
But it leads to late night doomscrolling that affects his sleep.
“I don’t even remember what I’m seeing, honestly,” he admitted.
“As soon as I’m out of my phone, I feel terrible, like, ashamed.”
Mentioning the survey data from the future monitoring organization, Yahoo News reported that the boredom is growing between tweens and adolescents.
According to statistics, 45% of high school seniors responded that they “agreed” or “mainly agreed” with the statement “I am often upset” in 2021, while 21% of eighth and 10th grade agreed. From the 2014 data, those figures have increased 37% for the 12th grade and more than 13% for eighth grade and high school sophomore.
While those numbers were reported in the middle of the Covid-19 pandemia, they suffered again in 2023, according to Yahoo News.
Kent Toussain, a family marriage and therapist and founder of the Adolescent Therapy Center and the Clinical Director, told Yahoo News that the reported “boredom” is only her “intolerance”.
“Much of this is due to the constant use of the screen and having that ability to avoid boredom with the screen,” he explained.
“Boredom is the seed of creativity, but when people are avoiding boredom all the time, they never need to create, learn a skill, make art or come out and make friends.”
That is why experts recommend that children get bored.
Dr Carl Marci, a psychiatrist and author, told Huffpost that, after being upset for a while, his children will “begin to create their problems creatively or distract themselves with social interaction or game”, which u It allows them to be curious and imaginary.
Continuous access to personal equipment and screens – which present “contents mainly designed to attract the attention of a child and engage them as long as possible” – “teach children that” they should not be bored Sometimes, ”he added.
Intelligent phones seem to have killed curiosity – a phenomenon that expands beyond high school classes.
Business Professor Nyu Stern Jonathan Haidt, author of “Concerned Generation”, recently told Business Insider that General Z Movement Habits have influenced their ability to work
They “never have a moment to reflect, they do not have time to deceive things, they do not have time to be creative,” he said, adding that the younger generation has also changed their attention spaces.
“Deciding human attention all over the world can even be a greater cost to humanity than mental health and the epidemic of mental illness,” he said.
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