Wow... bombarding teen girls with limitless images of their peers (often highly curated and/or enhanced), when their sense of self-worth and confidence in their bodies is being developed, is causing widespread mental distress?
I have a buddy with a lovely daughter. She's in incredible shape as a dancer. She's good enough to have competed nationally. Half-asian, quick witted, and cute as a button. Needless to say, she has absolutely nothing to be insecure about.
Poor girl started trying to starve herself because she thought her thighs were too big. She wanted tiny little k-pop singer legs. Very fortunate to have a strong father figure to guide her out of that hole before it got too deep.
My niece, now a freshman in college, was a competitive dancer through high school. Her best friend, and co-captain on the dance squad, was a fantastic dancer, but chunky.
As hard as those gals work out, I'm not sure how she got chunky, but she managed to pull it off.
The one and only objective truth in diet and weight loss is “you cannot outrun a fork”
You may be able to exercise your way down for a limited duration but it will not last. “Diet and nutrition ‘experts’” have done a great job of muddying the waters and demonizing things like “skip breakfast”.
Long story short, if you want to be obese and unhealthy just follow the FDAs nutritional guidelines and “expert advice”. If you want to lose weight and have more energy, put down the fork. This is why things like intermittent fasting and OMAD work — they reorder your consumption routine into something more closely resembling what our bodies were evolved for.
She's got muscle, but there's more flesh around it than you'd expect. Obviously, it's both genetic and dietary, and I wouldn't be surprised if she slims down when she either matures or figures out the diet, but it could go the other way too.
Most likely just diet. I gained a lot of weight in my 20s and 30s and cut down to 1-2 full meals of whatever I wanted but no snacking or sugary drinks. Watched 90 lbs melt away effortlessly and it stayed off because I no longer have bad eating habits. It’s now harder to gain weight than it is to lose it, because my body isn’t expecting food every hour or two.
Coached my sister who doesn’t even have a thyroid gland through it and same outcome.
Oh well, as long as she's fit and healthy. It just goes to show that everybody is different though, which is why I hate the medical establishment when they give out blanket medical advice, like we're all the same and like our lifestyles are all the same too.
I know a guy whose 17-year-old granddaughter plans to have her breasts removed when she turns 18. Massively depressed. Thinks becoming a boy will make her feel better.
I’ve sent every article I can to stop it. I guess the blue state where they live has laws to limit the parents’ ability to stop some of the pre-transition things. I don’t have the exact details on that but they’re now mostly convinced that if they don’t affirm their daughter’s new gender she will kill herself. That’s, of course, gonna likely end up being the opposite once this young lady eventually realizes she’s made a horrible mistake. It’s all so sick.
It's the only self-help book I've read that's actually effective. It's worth noting that she could use it to try to justify the transition. But it could also clear up the depression long enough for her to realize that it's the cause of suffering, not her sex.
Just thought I'd throw it out there as one more thing the parents could try. They'll probably have to be gentle about suggesting it though. Maybe something like "hey, I know life's been difficult lately, and this book's really been helping me with the stuff I've been dealing with."
Outside of trying to convince the kid that it's not a body standard the aspire to, it's super helpful to point out that it's the type of food that really causes shitty weight gain. You can eat fatty meats and not get fat, or you can eat a fuck ton of sugar/carbs and get fat easy. Carbs even make you feel hungry sooner after eating.
There's some good videos about the lives of k-pop singers. They basic live in conditions comparable to cults: scheduled that deprive them of sleep, controlled communication with relatives, not allowed to date, etc.
There is no single cause, its a multi front assault. The assault on god means people are less afraid of hell for killing themselves. The gluttonous growth of big pharma wanting to get every hooked on life long meds like anti-depressants. The assault on 2 parent homes damaging kids. The sexually degenerate culture. yes parents being too soft and not wanting to properly raise their kids anymore, instead letting the nanny state do it. etc.
all true but those are possible because parents either smother or don't give a shit about their kids
i have two nephews that are the greatest kids ever
They excel at school, are self-confident, don't do drugs, aren't addicted to social media and they know that leftist bullshit is leftist bullshit
why?
Because their parents are together and involved in their lives
My sister was a stay at home mom but, now the kids are older, she works outside the home
But, when the boys get home from school, she is there
And the parents know when it is time to protect and nurture and when it is time to kick their asses
Thing is, parents don't want to make an effort
When the marriage gets a little rocky, they run out and file for divorce instead of putting forth the effort to fix things
The throw their kids into daycare and trust the education machine's assembly line to raise them instead being proactive and actually spending time with them
And gods forbid they not have a 97" TV and a new car every year, mom has to work!
Kids come home to an empty house and have plenty of unsupervised time to get online and be poisoned
That’s what I hear from homeschool and religious parents whose kids aren’t in the Public school commie trans circle, they think it’s just from screen time (not social media, just video games and video watching).
It's all of the above. It's wasting your time looking at screens. It's the bullshit propaganda you're bombarded with while looking at the screens. It's exposure to brutal truths about your world that you normally wouldn't have access to without the screens. It's the temptation to adopt a completely different persona while communicating through the screens.
Giving kids (and poorly educated adults, for that matter) unfettered access to the internet was a mistake.
I'm in my 50s and well educated and I feel it's had (some) detrimental effects on me. Bear in mind that I've got some pre-internet (and even some pre-computer) experience to compare against.
Giving kids (and poorly educated adults, for that matter) unfettered access to the internet was a mistake.
No it wasnt, the internet is why trump happened. Why the truth can now be spread and the MSM is losing its power. Imagine how many people wouldnt have know the shots were BS without the internet, and how much more big pharma and the governments could get away with. Shit not having the internet is why all of human history is questionable, who knows what really happened in previous wars for example.
Parents should regulate what their children see, simple as. If they grow up to be stupid anyways, then them using the internet as an adult only stands to maybe educate them.
Pretty sure it's the schools accusing them of racism & transphobia, plus forcing girls to shower with perverts & physically compete with boys in sports.
I don't think it's the screen time. I grew up playing on NES /super NES. Had an early apple computer with so many games on it. I also loved TV. I watched more wholesome 80s and 90s shows not the propaganda they have today.
I played outside alot too but I had a good amount of screen time. I won't say it never influenced me, of course it did. But I was still pretty happy. I didn't suffer from serious depression and anxiety as a young kid or teenager.
I don't know if I could comfortably say that If I grew up on Facebook and Snapchat.
Screens back then and their "applications" didn't have literal teams of psychological engineers designing them to be constantly rewarding and engaging.
I also feel like you probably weren't on them from dawn til dusk and they weren't what your life revolved around. With kids today everything revolves around screens and the internet, all their schooling, all their socialization, etc. The world is radically different
Nah my life revolved around video games and I got into IT because of it. I was also a brainwashed liberal and thought everything was terrible but videogames were a nice break.
I was also an internet troll so that was fun. Never did social media till college and haven't gotten any more since.
Yes they did. Any RPG game or game where you get upgrades or new weapons has a task/reward system. That applied to most video arcade games and almost all early console and computer games.
They implied that's a negative thing but that applies to everything. Even books have a task and reward. You continue reading and get the reward of finding out what happens next. You work hard and expect a reward in the form of a bonus or raise. You're a farmer and spend months cultivating crops and the reward is the harvest. Literally everything follows that format in life.
Hasn't tv been using similar psychological engineering for decades?
They talk about the moral decay in our country corresponding to taking God out of schools, which is very much true, but at the same time our kids started growing up with a lot more tv and radio time in their lives.
One would expect it to have ramped up with the onset of social media, but it's really not entirely new.
I think there is a bit of it, since TV teaches people fake things. You know the phrase "book knowledge"? Well people watching fake stuff like TV get a lot of fake expectations. Maybe it's just stupid stuff like naively thinking that cars explode when they crash because they do in movies when they have no real experience with this, but it also goes for a lot of social stuff that gets replaced with the fake version when people have no real experience to fall back on and instead just have memories from media exposure.
That said, media has only gotten more manipulative and less wholesome over time, so combined with things like the Great Awokening that started around 08-12 (thanks Obama) and social cancellation for people who don't toe the line, well... it's not a good way to grow up knowing you're one bad turn away from the world making you the target of their next 5 minute hate.
You have to consider, most of these kids spend much more time than anyone else ever did looking at screens. I think the mental health problem is due to the fact that we live in a very shitty nation now, even the kids see what’s happening and are depressed. With 24/7 access to negative news, anyone could be depressed.
That's true. I also played sports and spent alot of time outside. I played with BMX bikes and bb guns. My childhood was sweet. Also this is what was on the Disney channel back then ; https://youtube.com/shorts/gA3hfkNikRQ?feature=share
just look at the basis of all the liberal crap being thrown at kids
white people are evil, boys are evil, straight people are evil, people who don't think the above are evil are evil
yeah, that's a great self esteem boost
then they are being taught to be mindless, humorless NPCs who are not allowed to have an opinion of their own and told they are living in a world filled with hate where all of the "good people" are targets
and, of course, like you point out, there is all of the actual bullshit going on
Back then you couldn't "binge watch". As soon as your favorite show was over, you had to wait until next week for the new episode, so you would turn off the TV, go outside, and play Smear-The-Queer
There is an obvious difference. Your Apple, NES, Cable TV were not in your pocket 24/7 for you to whip out every second of the day to satisfy any and every possible desire for exactly what you want to see.
My stepson told us the other day that his 5 year old daughter was crying. When he asked her why, she said because the Earth is dying and she won't be able to grow up.
I used to love music. Particularly metal and it's variants. Been to dozens of shows. I'd struggle to name 3 bands that came out in the last decade. I don't even listen to anything anymore. Most of it is garbage.
People always ask me why I re-watch old shows and listen to older music. While they listen and watch the new stuff. New stuff too woke. Plus I'm getting older.
Age definitely has it's part to play...for those of us that have the wisdom to accompany that age! I don't have cable/satellite tv so I don't watch anything new myself. I do have box sets of Married With Children, Sanford and Son, etc. So I'm right there with you my man!
The I'm getting older line is only a small part of that. Sure, we refine our tastes and aren't going to be into teenage angst songs and such, but I continually find mainstream music from prior decades that I've never heard before and think it's great. Heck, I've even come around to a good amount of stuff that I hated when I was younger. Newer music is just pure trash.
I am the same and I sometimes think it's just due to my age. But ask any young kid who is learning to play guitar, drums, or bass what songs they are trying to learn. It almost certainly won't be anything released in the last 15yrs.
When I was a kid in the 80s I could name every movie currently in theaters (it was listed in the newspaper). I can't name a single feature film made in the last 5 years.
I think it's what's helped fuel the current methamphetamine epidemic is because these kids grew up hooked on amphetamines. It's something they're used to. Just like you can blame big pharma for the opioid crisis. They created the meth crisis too.
I remember dumbasses chopping up pills when I was at a party with some co workers. I was like now I've never done amphetamines. But I don't think it's like cocaine where the effects are felt better by nasal membrane ingestion over the stomach. I know drugs like Xanax are pointless to snort. They activate in your stomach very well that's what it was designed for. Lol oh well it's their funeral.
Yes. But that's because homo has become a counter culture.
Being "gay" is for Gen Z what being punk was to 80s kids, or being goth was to the 90s kids or being emo was to the early 2000s kids.
They're not really gay. It's just something disaffected youth say they are to get back at mommy and daddy.
The trans shit is what's really destructive, however. It's different from other youth counter cultures because:
a.) adults are encouraging it (grooming)
b.) piercings close up and hair goes back to its natural color, but once you cut your dick or tits off, they're not growing back. and once you pump your teenage body full of hormones, you're a half feminine/masculine looking sterilized freak for life.
I call it Nihlism, much more accurate. Nihlism is also inherently anti-Christian, rejection any form of salvation over the convenience of compliance with doomerisms.
Not false, atheism is just shifting your faith into the government because you believe there is no higher power. Its why communism is always atheist. You must worship the state and their science.
Because their parents just shove the rules in their faces and give them no spiritual foundation for them. Kids see no purpose and they drop them real quick.
That's when feminism started to take off on the internet. Feminism is poisonous sabotage for young women. Where could it be coming from does anyone know?....
Healthy kids come from healthy families. This trend follows that of the increased rate of divorce and out wedlock births. Add copious amounts of poisonous social media and sprinkle in a pinch of secularism to taste, and bon-appetite 👌
The water is making frogs gay.
The food, personal care products, plastics all around, and lack of outdoor time is making kids fucked in all kinds of ways. We are biological creatures dependent upon hormones for proper growth and functioning. Eat clean, get dirty, and get outside, day and night.
The jump comes in there 20s. This is a product of schooling, social media trash, body image and having no hope. Women in their 20s are at a cross road. Work or look for a husband. They have bashed and destroy the idea of a man supporting a woman and his family. Many, not all, become depressed and overwhelmed with the 2 paths they must choose. Men have 1 path.. make themselves valuable!! So for my final reason women are killing themselves..... FEMINISM!!! They see no end to the the circle of life.... bc they are looking down a man's path. We except work as just that work. Women want more and more and more. They buy 80 of all products in America. Men don't give 2 shits. This combination of all work and no family kills them. It's hard to except it 1 or the other. Bottom line. It takes 2 and all the #singlemoms is not a complement. It's abuse on a whole other level. Fortunately this number will come down with lockdowns ending but the truth is still there.
It's even more the result of constantly teaching kids victimhood.
Imagine walking around as a kid with all this heavy doomsday shit being thrown at you all the time. When I was a kid all I remember was laughter, camaraderie, and limitless possibilities.
Yep, US teens are on Tik Tok, which tracks their online activity to identify weak points that can be exploited for psychological attack. Most of the content that Tik Tok targets at US teens is blocked in China. The CCP also limits teens' gaming time to one hour per day, and limits teens' online gaming to weekends only.
No surprise. They're being told to fornicate, get high, get drunk, join sororities, and hate the role of a mother. When they find out that this barbaric life style is the exact opposite of paradise, they get depressed and angry.
The digital age made it easier to brainwash them but technology is just a tool and is no different than the printing press and the spread of immoral writings.
Parents need to realize that many shows, media, corporations, and schools are brainwashing your daughters to live a lifestyle no different than the wives of savages before the Europeans arrived. Women getting drunk, high, angry, and sleeping with many men were viewed as barbaric by Europeans and rightfully so.
SPECT brain scans and genetics prove ADD. Of course they're probably over-diagnosing etc. They're targeting children in many ways so obviously be careful folks.
The problem with ADHD is there's huge confirmation bias with the diagnosis.
Adderall/Ritalin will make anyone more focused. But when people who are prescribed the drugs for ADHD use them, and they work, they take this as evidence of a legitimate ADHD diagnosis.
Also, this was specifically about an increase in teenagers being diagnosed. Young kids aren't likely to abuse the drugs Because their parents control their dose taking, but teens are a different story.
This is so odd. You would think that abortion rights, anything goes sexual freedom and an over-all "do whatever feels good/you are your own god" heathen lifestyle would bring about peak happiness.
It doesn't, because humans become immune to societal influencers. Why have the mostly nude women shown up in the last 20 years? If you watch the Super Bowl half-time show tonight, you will see a massive dose of evil
Take every value and social norm that has proven to promote success over the past 5k years -- then censor, criminalize, and shame them out of existence. What do you expect to happen?
This is likely because we aren't keeping our insane problems from them. I've noticed this a lot with children of single mothers. The single mothers really really like to include their children in their insanity. They try to turn their boys into patriarchs to fill the void of a missing father. A father's job is likely mostly about reining in mother so when he isn't around she brings them into the fold which they aren't equipped to handle. With girls this just takes their neuroses to 11. Girls like their mother need to be reined in and stabilized by a father who needs to protect her from the craziness of the world and herself. Think of it like what would happen to a dog if every day a random explosion goes off that scares the shit out it. It makes it always on edge and a nervous wreak.
Its the pill. Always has been. Drugs to counteract the hormone and body chemistry altering sterilization pill. Then more drugs to coutneract the mind altering chemical effects. Then a lifetime of slutting it up and boozing to feel normal before realization they have nothing but a cat.
Boys need a good ass whooping and for MEN to teach them how to be MEN! Both my boys can work on cars, they were helping me fix/maintain them since they were young. Went fishing, camping, shot guns. Called them faggots when they acted like them. Ect. Today, both men who are strong, love the Lord, based, 1 in military, other is LEO. My oldest finally realized why I was hard on them while all their friends got it easy.
They both got in under Trump... now would you rather the cops and military be all left wing cucks? Heck no! There will always be conservatives in both fields. Only a fool would argue this and be pro antifa run cops like it seems you're suggesting
and...crappy food...and social media accounts communicating unworthiness constantly.. and lower vitamin D from lack of sunshine exposure due to indoor pursuits over outdoor pursuits.. and crappy vaccines with a variety of unnecessary, harmful substances included..
Now do 'smartphone sales' and 'growth of Social Media accounts'
Wow... bombarding teen girls with limitless images of their peers (often highly curated and/or enhanced), when their sense of self-worth and confidence in their bodies is being developed, is causing widespread mental distress?
Who could have possibly seen this coming?
Just the engineers at Meta who literally built it into Instagram on purpose… and yes, that’s public information.
I’m sure all those people bleeding from the eyes and suddenly dying at school has no effect on their mood.
I have a buddy with a lovely daughter. She's in incredible shape as a dancer. She's good enough to have competed nationally. Half-asian, quick witted, and cute as a button. Needless to say, she has absolutely nothing to be insecure about.
Poor girl started trying to starve herself because she thought her thighs were too big. She wanted tiny little k-pop singer legs. Very fortunate to have a strong father figure to guide her out of that hole before it got too deep.
I've never met a dancer that wasn't at least a little bit anorexic. It comes with the industry.
My niece, now a freshman in college, was a competitive dancer through high school. Her best friend, and co-captain on the dance squad, was a fantastic dancer, but chunky.
As hard as those gals work out, I'm not sure how she got chunky, but she managed to pull it off.
You can't outwork a bad diet. One Starcucks calorie bomb can obliterate days of effort.
Yeah you can. Caloric stasis for a 15-30 year old can reach up to 15000 calories if they are truly being worked
Bullshit, even top Olympic athletes in their prime don't burn that much.
https://olympics.com/en/news/michael-phelps-10000-calories-diet-what-the-american-swimmer-ate-while-training-
Neither do gigantic world-class strongman champions.
https://barbend.com/strongman-brian-shaw-9700-calorie-diet/
The one and only objective truth in diet and weight loss is “you cannot outrun a fork”
You may be able to exercise your way down for a limited duration but it will not last. “Diet and nutrition ‘experts’” have done a great job of muddying the waters and demonizing things like “skip breakfast”.
Long story short, if you want to be obese and unhealthy just follow the FDAs nutritional guidelines and “expert advice”. If you want to lose weight and have more energy, put down the fork. This is why things like intermittent fasting and OMAD work — they reorder your consumption routine into something more closely resembling what our bodies were evolved for.
They’re not a fuckin grizzly preparing for winter lmao
Maybe in racehorses.
She might have a body type which builds a lot of muscle mass, so she ended up with more bulk for the same amount of exercise.
She's got muscle, but there's more flesh around it than you'd expect. Obviously, it's both genetic and dietary, and I wouldn't be surprised if she slims down when she either matures or figures out the diet, but it could go the other way too.
Most likely just diet. I gained a lot of weight in my 20s and 30s and cut down to 1-2 full meals of whatever I wanted but no snacking or sugary drinks. Watched 90 lbs melt away effortlessly and it stayed off because I no longer have bad eating habits. It’s now harder to gain weight than it is to lose it, because my body isn’t expecting food every hour or two.
Coached my sister who doesn’t even have a thyroid gland through it and same outcome.
Oh well, as long as she's fit and healthy. It just goes to show that everybody is different though, which is why I hate the medical establishment when they give out blanket medical advice, like we're all the same and like our lifestyles are all the same too.
I know a guy whose 17-year-old granddaughter plans to have her breasts removed when she turns 18. Massively depressed. Thinks becoming a boy will make her feel better.
That's a damn tragedy. I've seen one just like that. Charming little blonde thought she wanted to be a boy.
I’ve sent every article I can to stop it. I guess the blue state where they live has laws to limit the parents’ ability to stop some of the pre-transition things. I don’t have the exact details on that but they’re now mostly convinced that if they don’t affirm their daughter’s new gender she will kill herself. That’s, of course, gonna likely end up being the opposite once this young lady eventually realizes she’s made a horrible mistake. It’s all so sick.
This helped me when I was going through some rough stuff:
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/54930681
It's the only self-help book I've read that's actually effective. It's worth noting that she could use it to try to justify the transition. But it could also clear up the depression long enough for her to realize that it's the cause of suffering, not her sex.
Just thought I'd throw it out there as one more thing the parents could try. They'll probably have to be gentle about suggesting it though. Maybe something like "hey, I know life's been difficult lately, and this book's really been helping me with the stuff I've been dealing with."
I'll be praying for the best.
Thank you. Will send them the link.
Outside of trying to convince the kid that it's not a body standard the aspire to, it's super helpful to point out that it's the type of food that really causes shitty weight gain. You can eat fatty meats and not get fat, or you can eat a fuck ton of sugar/carbs and get fat easy. Carbs even make you feel hungry sooner after eating.
There's some good videos about the lives of k-pop singers. They basic live in conditions comparable to cults: scheduled that deprive them of sleep, controlled communication with relatives, not allowed to date, etc.
Also the dozens and dozens of “vaccines” they were forced to take contributed hugely.
Dont forget the masks and lockdowns!
how does that work when ham planets like Lizzo are major celebrities?
it's the fucking helicopter parents who protect their little snowflakes from everything inside an emotional glass bubble
thanks to them, kids are weak, they are hurt by words and they certainly don't fight back
so now you have 14 year olds offing themselves because someone on Insta said they were ugly
back in the day, if you whined about someone being mean to you, your dad would smack you and tell you to grow some balls
There is no single cause, its a multi front assault. The assault on god means people are less afraid of hell for killing themselves. The gluttonous growth of big pharma wanting to get every hooked on life long meds like anti-depressants. The assault on 2 parent homes damaging kids. The sexually degenerate culture. yes parents being too soft and not wanting to properly raise their kids anymore, instead letting the nanny state do it. etc.
all true but those are possible because parents either smother or don't give a shit about their kids
i have two nephews that are the greatest kids ever
They excel at school, are self-confident, don't do drugs, aren't addicted to social media and they know that leftist bullshit is leftist bullshit
why?
Because their parents are together and involved in their lives
My sister was a stay at home mom but, now the kids are older, she works outside the home
But, when the boys get home from school, she is there
And the parents know when it is time to protect and nurture and when it is time to kick their asses
Thing is, parents don't want to make an effort
When the marriage gets a little rocky, they run out and file for divorce instead of putting forth the effort to fix things
The throw their kids into daycare and trust the education machine's assembly line to raise them instead being proactive and actually spending time with them
And gods forbid they not have a 97" TV and a new car every year, mom has to work!
Kids come home to an empty house and have plenty of unsupervised time to get online and be poisoned
BOYS DEPRESSION UP HIGHER THAN GIRLS. ITS LIKE THE BOYS DONT MATTER. ONLY THE GIRLS MATTER.
GOD I AM GLAD I DONT HAVE SONS.
Raising boys here and I love them enough to tell them no when I have to. My boys are happy and healthy so be the antidote to society's poisons.
That’s what I hear from homeschool and religious parents whose kids aren’t in the Public school commie trans circle, they think it’s just from screen time (not social media, just video games and video watching).
So really, what is it?
It's all of the above. It's wasting your time looking at screens. It's the bullshit propaganda you're bombarded with while looking at the screens. It's exposure to brutal truths about your world that you normally wouldn't have access to without the screens. It's the temptation to adopt a completely different persona while communicating through the screens.
Giving kids (and poorly educated adults, for that matter) unfettered access to the internet was a mistake.
underrated
Ignorance is bliss. I never thought the bald dude from the matrix would become a sympathetic character.
Yeah but that also makes it easier for the government to take everything over.
Id rather be a little saddened by the state of the world but know the truth, than be a blissful little npc government drone.
Agreed, I'd rather know the truth, even when it's ugly. But it gets tiresome sometimes.
Kinda like brainwashing but for the eyes because of the constanant video images and constant messaging and likes. Bot brainwashing children.
I'm in my 50s and well educated and I feel it's had (some) detrimental effects on me. Bear in mind that I've got some pre-internet (and even some pre-computer) experience to compare against.
Internet is Satan!
No it wasnt, the internet is why trump happened. Why the truth can now be spread and the MSM is losing its power. Imagine how many people wouldnt have know the shots were BS without the internet, and how much more big pharma and the governments could get away with. Shit not having the internet is why all of human history is questionable, who knows what really happened in previous wars for example.
Parents should regulate what their children see, simple as. If they grow up to be stupid anyways, then them using the internet as an adult only stands to maybe educate them.
Pretty sure it's the schools accusing them of racism & transphobia, plus forcing girls to shower with perverts & physically compete with boys in sports.
A combination of all.
I don't think it's the screen time. I grew up playing on NES /super NES. Had an early apple computer with so many games on it. I also loved TV. I watched more wholesome 80s and 90s shows not the propaganda they have today.
I played outside alot too but I had a good amount of screen time. I won't say it never influenced me, of course it did. But I was still pretty happy. I didn't suffer from serious depression and anxiety as a young kid or teenager.
I don't know if I could comfortably say that If I grew up on Facebook and Snapchat.
Screens back then and their "applications" didn't have literal teams of psychological engineers designing them to be constantly rewarding and engaging.
I also feel like you probably weren't on them from dawn til dusk and they weren't what your life revolved around. With kids today everything revolves around screens and the internet, all their schooling, all their socialization, etc. The world is radically different
Nah my life revolved around video games and I got into IT because of it. I was also a brainwashed liberal and thought everything was terrible but videogames were a nice break.
I was also an internet troll so that was fun. Never did social media till college and haven't gotten any more since.
That's true. I lived most of my life back then in the physical world. Not the digital one. Kids today never go outside and play anymore.
And for a year, they weren't allowed to.
kids can't got to the park by themselves anymore, people will call DCFS on the parents
they call them "free range children"
of course that only applies to parents who will actually let their little snowflakes go out
In a cushy leftist white neighborhood sure. White people do have a nosy pathological altruism problem.
Yes they did. Any RPG game or game where you get upgrades or new weapons has a task/reward system. That applied to most video arcade games and almost all early console and computer games.
Is there a specific issue with task/reward systems?
"designing them to be constantly rewarding"
They implied that's a negative thing but that applies to everything. Even books have a task and reward. You continue reading and get the reward of finding out what happens next. You work hard and expect a reward in the form of a bonus or raise. You're a farmer and spend months cultivating crops and the reward is the harvest. Literally everything follows that format in life.
No, but the person I replied to implied there was.
Hasn't tv been using similar psychological engineering for decades?
They talk about the moral decay in our country corresponding to taking God out of schools, which is very much true, but at the same time our kids started growing up with a lot more tv and radio time in their lives.
One would expect it to have ramped up with the onset of social media, but it's really not entirely new.
I think there is a bit of it, since TV teaches people fake things. You know the phrase "book knowledge"? Well people watching fake stuff like TV get a lot of fake expectations. Maybe it's just stupid stuff like naively thinking that cars explode when they crash because they do in movies when they have no real experience with this, but it also goes for a lot of social stuff that gets replaced with the fake version when people have no real experience to fall back on and instead just have memories from media exposure.
That said, media has only gotten more manipulative and less wholesome over time, so combined with things like the Great Awokening that started around 08-12 (thanks Obama) and social cancellation for people who don't toe the line, well... it's not a good way to grow up knowing you're one bad turn away from the world making you the target of their next 5 minute hate.
whoever thought up the idea of friends, followers, upvotes, subscribers and other means of social scorekeeping was an evil motherfucker
life is now all about saying/doing things to up those numbers
they have become the whole basis of someone's ranking in society
And now they want to make it mandatory.
they already have a social credit system in Chynah
You have to consider, most of these kids spend much more time than anyone else ever did looking at screens. I think the mental health problem is due to the fact that we live in a very shitty nation now, even the kids see what’s happening and are depressed. With 24/7 access to negative news, anyone could be depressed.
That's true. I also played sports and spent alot of time outside. I played with BMX bikes and bb guns. My childhood was sweet. Also this is what was on the Disney channel back then ; https://youtube.com/shorts/gA3hfkNikRQ?feature=share
It's no wonder we were happier.
just look at the basis of all the liberal crap being thrown at kids
white people are evil, boys are evil, straight people are evil, people who don't think the above are evil are evil
yeah, that's a great self esteem boost
then they are being taught to be mindless, humorless NPCs who are not allowed to have an opinion of their own and told they are living in a world filled with hate where all of the "good people" are targets
and, of course, like you point out, there is all of the actual bullshit going on
Back then you couldn't "binge watch". As soon as your favorite show was over, you had to wait until next week for the new episode, so you would turn off the TV, go outside, and play Smear-The-Queer
we played Bag-The-Fag
There is an obvious difference. Your Apple, NES, Cable TV were not in your pocket 24/7 for you to whip out every second of the day to satisfy any and every possible desire for exactly what you want to see.
Yea the content I was exposed to was so much different.
Yeah it was a nice relaxing break from reality. Now with social media it's constantly following you.
Don't forget climate change.
My stepson told us the other day that his 5 year old daughter was crying. When he asked her why, she said because the Earth is dying and she won't be able to grow up.
He needs to stop being a faggot and make sure his daughter isn’t being indoctrinated anymore.
That faggot you speak of was an army ranger.
Hopefully you told your stepson to ensure her that wasnt real and that the earth has been changing temperature naturally since the atmosphere formed.
Anything that stops kids going out and interacting naturally with other kids.
36+ vaccines from birth to 18/social media/out of touch parents spending more time w their phones than their kids/dysfunctional woke teachers
This.
Now do pointless lockdowns, forced masking, and seeing your friends die suddenly and unexpectedly.
Don't forget...SSRIs for everyone!!
And poor quality food, air and water. Poor clothes fabric. Poor choice in music.
I used to love music. Particularly metal and it's variants. Been to dozens of shows. I'd struggle to name 3 bands that came out in the last decade. I don't even listen to anything anymore. Most of it is garbage.
People always ask me why I re-watch old shows and listen to older music. While they listen and watch the new stuff. New stuff too woke. Plus I'm getting older.
Age definitely has it's part to play...for those of us that have the wisdom to accompany that age! I don't have cable/satellite tv so I don't watch anything new myself. I do have box sets of Married With Children, Sanford and Son, etc. So I'm right there with you my man!
The I'm getting older line is only a small part of that. Sure, we refine our tastes and aren't going to be into teenage angst songs and such, but I continually find mainstream music from prior decades that I've never heard before and think it's great. Heck, I've even come around to a good amount of stuff that I hated when I was younger. Newer music is just pure trash.
I am the same and I sometimes think it's just due to my age. But ask any young kid who is learning to play guitar, drums, or bass what songs they are trying to learn. It almost certainly won't be anything released in the last 15yrs.
When I was a kid in the 80s I could name every movie currently in theaters (it was listed in the newspaper). I can't name a single feature film made in the last 5 years.
Also amphetamines for when they get bored sitting in classrooms too long
Those cause MAJOR problems. I got off the shit thanks to my dad trying to get me to where I didn't need them.
That's good on your dad to care about you enough.
I think it's what's helped fuel the current methamphetamine epidemic is because these kids grew up hooked on amphetamines. It's something they're used to. Just like you can blame big pharma for the opioid crisis. They created the meth crisis too.
I talk to people who still use it as a concentration drug and most of those people are lefttards. They NEED it to focus.
I remember dumbasses chopping up pills when I was at a party with some co workers. I was like now I've never done amphetamines. But I don't think it's like cocaine where the effects are felt better by nasal membrane ingestion over the stomach. I know drugs like Xanax are pointless to snort. They activate in your stomach very well that's what it was designed for. Lol oh well it's their funeral.
they only give amphetamine (one drug) to kids with ADD
it has the opposite effect on them- it slows them down
most kids outgrow ADD
the problem comes when they have done that and they keep being given amphetamine
the opioid crisis is different
it was specifically created by Big Pharma in an effort to sell drugs
if you want to see how evil an insidious that plot was, watch "Dopesick"
They should become boys, clearly better rates of depression.
Username checks out.
kek RIP
What do you expect when society tells its young your value as a person is directly defined by how much of a whore and/or victim you are.
Doesn't 1/3 of Gen Z identify as LGBT?
...🤔
Yes. But that's because homo has become a counter culture.
Being "gay" is for Gen Z what being punk was to 80s kids, or being goth was to the 90s kids or being emo was to the early 2000s kids.
They're not really gay. It's just something disaffected youth say they are to get back at mommy and daddy.
The trans shit is what's really destructive, however. It's different from other youth counter cultures because:
a.) adults are encouraging it (grooming)
b.) piercings close up and hair goes back to its natural color, but once you cut your dick or tits off, they're not growing back. and once you pump your teenage body full of hormones, you're a half feminine/masculine looking sterilized freak for life.
It's very trendy to be bisexual now. So many girls have figured out that you can claim LGBTQWERTY privilege points and still get to date guys.
the result of atheism
I call it Nihlism, much more accurate. Nihlism is also inherently anti-Christian, rejection any form of salvation over the convenience of compliance with doomerisms.
satanism
Not false, atheism is just shifting your faith into the government because you believe there is no higher power. Its why communism is always atheist. You must worship the state and their science.
looks like an atheist downvoted, have an upvote
bullshit
repressed xian kids are some most socially destroyed kids out there
Because their parents just shove the rules in their faces and give them no spiritual foundation for them. Kids see no purpose and they drop them real quick.
no, they do things like what happened to the girl in PA
they control their social lives to the point it suffocates them- no going online, no going out with friends, no dating
they do it for what they see as spiritual reasons
one of the wildest girls I knew in college was a preacher's kid making up for all the years they kept her under their thumb
Allegedly Katy Perry was too.
found the atheist
yes because everyone who disagrees with the jezoid hive mind is an atheist
That's when feminism started to take off on the internet. Feminism is poisonous sabotage for young women. Where could it be coming from does anyone know?....
Feminism taught the little rats to lie for extra privilege. The only true measure of depression is suicide rates, and men's are far higher.
You can also quantitatively analyze other ways such as anorexia
Some of that correlates to men being able to actually accomplish things they turn their minds to.
Females make more attempts, but they tend towards cutting and ODs, whereas men jump or eat a bullet.
For attention.
Feminism isn't a poison. It's female nature manifesting as a political movement.
the tranny bullshit has just about killed feminism
about the only vestige left are the pro baby killers
Healthy kids come from healthy families. This trend follows that of the increased rate of divorce and out wedlock births. Add copious amounts of poisonous social media and sprinkle in a pinch of secularism to taste, and bon-appetite 👌
Don’t forget SSRIs!
Every female I have any association with is on copious amounts. Same with many of the men.
True. And Pharma’s ticket out of accountability is: “We warned of side effects, and they were depressed to begin with”
Also, girls are put on hormonal birth control as soon as they're in middle school.
Well the solution to this is obviously more abortions and genital mutilations.
Only 2 genders.... REEEEEEEEE
The water is making frogs gay.
The food, personal care products, plastics all around, and lack of outdoor time is making kids fucked in all kinds of ways. We are biological creatures dependent upon hormones for proper growth and functioning. Eat clean, get dirty, and get outside, day and night.
and fight
if someone calls you a name, don't just dissolve into a ball of depression, smack them
the Dems are making kids nuts with their bullshit made up fantasy world telling kids to ignore logic and truth
This sums up the last decade nicely.
Oh gee, what a cool graph. Sources?
No! Never!
A similar one, from Feb 2019, is here:
https://freebeacon.com/issues/americas-teens-keep-getting-more-unhappy/
The jump comes in there 20s. This is a product of schooling, social media trash, body image and having no hope. Women in their 20s are at a cross road. Work or look for a husband. They have bashed and destroy the idea of a man supporting a woman and his family. Many, not all, become depressed and overwhelmed with the 2 paths they must choose. Men have 1 path.. make themselves valuable!! So for my final reason women are killing themselves..... FEMINISM!!! They see no end to the the circle of life.... bc they are looking down a man's path. We except work as just that work. Women want more and more and more. They buy 80 of all products in America. Men don't give 2 shits. This combination of all work and no family kills them. It's hard to except it 1 or the other. Bottom line. It takes 2 and all the #singlemoms is not a complement. It's abuse on a whole other level. Fortunately this number will come down with lockdowns ending but the truth is still there.
Women are making their own choices as free adults. Turns out they often make poor ones.
Feminism is a war against women
So glad I grew up in the 80s.
It's even more the result of constantly teaching kids victimhood.
Imagine walking around as a kid with all this heavy doomsday shit being thrown at you all the time. When I was a kid all I remember was laughter, camaraderie, and limitless possibilities.
Yep, US teens are on Tik Tok, which tracks their online activity to identify weak points that can be exploited for psychological attack. Most of the content that Tik Tok targets at US teens is blocked in China. The CCP also limits teens' gaming time to one hour per day, and limits teens' online gaming to weekends only.
Holy shit. Where is this information on government mandate gaming time in Chyna from?
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-58384457
I've heard it before. No sources though.
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-58384457
Chinese have their own problems, too. They have a drop out society and a declining birth rate.
hell TikTok encourages them to do "challenges" which involve eventually killing themselves
Chynah limits gaming because their population is dwindling
The rice dicks would rather game than fuck
No surprise. They're being told to fornicate, get high, get drunk, join sororities, and hate the role of a mother. When they find out that this barbaric life style is the exact opposite of paradise, they get depressed and angry.
The digital age made it easier to brainwash them but technology is just a tool and is no different than the printing press and the spread of immoral writings.
Parents need to realize that many shows, media, corporations, and schools are brainwashing your daughters to live a lifestyle no different than the wives of savages before the Europeans arrived. Women getting drunk, high, angry, and sleeping with many men were viewed as barbaric by Europeans and rightfully so.
that's been around since there has been college
Fewer people used to attend college. And way fewer women.
but it was still a party
Slow down there. College used to be exclusively men, studying extreme technical paths. Effectively a monastery for celibate monks and married men.
yeah like back in the 40's
I bet if you did "ADHD", the graph would look the same only the genders reversed.
It's a push to sell drugs. Nothing more.
They tricked people into thinking sadness is depression.
Everyone feels depressed sometimes. That's life. Not clinical depression
agree 1000 percent
no, ADHD is real and the drugs used to treat it work
and the kids don't get addicted to them
the problem is misdiagnosis and/or calling normal behavior "hyperactivity" and 'treating" it with drugs
SPECT brain scans and genetics prove ADD. Of course they're probably over-diagnosing etc. They're targeting children in many ways so obviously be careful folks.
The problem with ADHD is there's huge confirmation bias with the diagnosis.
Adderall/Ritalin will make anyone more focused. But when people who are prescribed the drugs for ADHD use them, and they work, they take this as evidence of a legitimate ADHD diagnosis.
Also, this was specifically about an increase in teenagers being diagnosed. Young kids aren't likely to abuse the drugs Because their parents control their dose taking, but teens are a different story.
You also have teachers making the diagnosis
The teacher tells the parent that Billy has ADHD because Billy won't just sit there like a zombie, he moves around
The parent takes the kid to the doctor and tells the doctor what the teacher said
Then the doctor is like "Well, if he is having trouble in school he must be ADHD"
And that's the diagnostic procedure
This is so odd. You would think that abortion rights, anything goes sexual freedom and an over-all "do whatever feels good/you are your own god" heathen lifestyle would bring about peak happiness.
It doesn't, because humans become immune to societal influencers. Why have the mostly nude women shown up in the last 20 years? If you watch the Super Bowl half-time show tonight, you will see a massive dose of evil
Take every value and social norm that has proven to promote success over the past 5k years -- then censor, criminalize, and shame them out of existence. What do you expect to happen?
This is likely because we aren't keeping our insane problems from them. I've noticed this a lot with children of single mothers. The single mothers really really like to include their children in their insanity. They try to turn their boys into patriarchs to fill the void of a missing father. A father's job is likely mostly about reining in mother so when he isn't around she brings them into the fold which they aren't equipped to handle. With girls this just takes their neuroses to 11. Girls like their mother need to be reined in and stabilized by a father who needs to protect her from the craziness of the world and herself. Think of it like what would happen to a dog if every day a random explosion goes off that scares the shit out it. It makes it always on edge and a nervous wreak.
Similarly you see a lot of women walking badly behaved dogs because they refuse to train them for whatever reason.
Why is it so hard to not cut out the source on graphics or put a link to source.
because the point of the post isn't to inform it's to persuade
Its the pill. Always has been. Drugs to counteract the hormone and body chemistry altering sterilization pill. Then more drugs to coutneract the mind altering chemical effects. Then a lifetime of slutting it up and boozing to feel normal before realization they have nothing but a cat.
This is exactly it.
This 100%. The wisdom of Christ's holy church was poo pooed for years on this.
I’m old enough to remember that the levels of teenage depression were considered abhorrently high in 2010 too.
Boys need a good ass whooping and for MEN to teach them how to be MEN! Both my boys can work on cars, they were helping me fix/maintain them since they were young. Went fishing, camping, shot guns. Called them faggots when they acted like them. Ect. Today, both men who are strong, love the Lord, based, 1 in military, other is LEO. My oldest finally realized why I was hard on them while all their friends got it easy.
doing the bidding of elderly pedophile politicians is based now I had no idea
They both got in under Trump... now would you rather the cops and military be all left wing cucks? Heck no! There will always be conservatives in both fields. Only a fool would argue this and be pro antifa run cops like it seems you're suggesting
I am an "oops"/late in life child
my dad grew up on a Missouri dirt farm back in the days when men acted like men
when I was a little kid, the neighborhood bully beat me up
I went crying to my dad about it and he said, "Either you go back out and take care of him or I'm going to beat your ass."
Hmmm, 6'3" 220lb fireman v mean fat kid
i'll just say the bully didn't bother me anymore
So you turned them into ZOG? Congrats?
The world as we knew it is dead. Of course everyone's depressed.
It'll be okay, big pharma's got this.
and...crappy food...and social media accounts communicating unworthiness constantly.. and lower vitamin D from lack of sunshine exposure due to indoor pursuits over outdoor pursuits.. and crappy vaccines with a variety of unnecessary, harmful substances included..
break the home so they can be vampires on these young people and no dad is gonna come kill them after
A major factor is the food.
36+ childhood “vaccines” from birth to 18 can fuck you up mentally! Wonder if this is why boys think they are girls and visa versa 🤔
Na, it is cause adults and their peers make a big deal of congratulating them about it and telling them they are special.
It is the same tactic used to potty train a kid...(except potty training is actually useful)
Well they just need to cut of their genitalia, problem solved
Need more exercise.
What’s the source on this?