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 bored, “seeing the clock calculation from” in the classroom or dreaming of his family’s “Detox Days” digital, 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 see, 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 respond that “agreed” or “mostly agreed” with the state “I am often upset” in 2021, while 21% of the eighth grade and 10th were OK. 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 Clinical Director, told Yahoo News that the reported “boredom” is only his “intolerance”.
“A large part of this is the second for 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, so art or go out and make friends.”
That is why experts recommend that children get bored.
Tarcian property Carl Marci, a psychiatrist and author, told Huffpost that, after being bored for a while, his children will “begin to create their own problems or distract them with social interaction or game”, which It allows them to be curious and imaginary.
Continuous access to personal equipment and screens – which contain “content mainly designed to catch a child” “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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