| The Dramatic Rise of Anxiety and Depression in Children: Is It Connected to the Decline in Play and Rise in Schooling? |
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Asked 2 years ago
by WishingforSun  United States |
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http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/freedom-learn/201001/the-dramatic-rise-anxiety-and-depression-in-children-and-adolescents-is-it
No. It is connected with the loss of family security. Divorce and fathers being run off tend to cause most of the anxiety and depression.
I dont know...I think maybe it comes from being babied too much.
There are many factors in child depression of these times. First and foremost is lack of family or lack of a healthy family. The doctors/pharmaceutical company's/government have children so pumped with drugs we seem to no longer know how a child is REALLY supposed to act and ALL of those drugs have one bad side effect or another. Schools have taken out classes that encourage free and creative thinking and replaced it with unrealistic expectations of basic education. Unless a child is into sports most extra curricular activities have been getting less and less. It is not necessarily play, as it is being allowed to express ones self and be creative. The school system is helping the government turn our children into obedient little drones that will be easy to control ( now that IS depressing ). I do think that the high rise in divorce is part of the reason but the higher part of that is when we get stupid parents who can not stand each other and use the child against each other and the only one that suffers is the child. A child has a tantrum and they are whisked away and put on Ritalin or such. They sniffle and they are stuffed full of drugs to suppress the sniffle ( lets not find out WHY they sniffled ). A child is sad one day and they are put on antidepressants the next ( children have good and bad days like adult and do not need to have a fake upper ). There are many other drugs that children are having to take and all of those together and all of the side effects I understand why they have anxiety and depression.
There are a lot of reasons. Too much TV. Being warned repeatedly about how dangerous the world is--stranger danger, stranger danger, stranger danger, Will Robinson!. Too much TV. Too many drugs all the time. Now they are trying to treat two-year-olds with massively dangerous psychoactive drugs, to make them compliant little robots. Too much TV. Lack of daily interaction with an extended family to smooth out the bumps, whether from an overworked Mom or a divorced Dad. Too much TV. Lack of physical nurturing. Children are in constant physical contact with an adult for most of their first few years in hunter-gatherer societies. It is what we are evolved for, and lack in this society. TOO MUCH TV.
It is a real sign, like the huge surge in teen suicide and the astonishing rise in the prison population, that this society is badly broken.
I see you repeating TV and I agree. When I was a kid there were one or two programs that I watched and then it was outside playing or playing with toys inside ( with TV off ). The shows these days even for young children are violent, disrespectful, and no longer have valued lessons for life. The programs that I watched taught you to help and be nice to each other and taught how to solve problems. It is repulsive to see those programs for children who are in the four - six range and then disheartening to see them for kids in the six - twelve range and then from there it all goes to hell. If our children are being taught to be mean and disrespectful and that each person is the ONLY one that can take care of themselves or anything around them that is giving them the message that even though there are a lot of people in the world they are still alone. That is depressing and I see high anxiety coming from that.
I am constantly astonished by how otherwise intelligent and thoughtful people make excuses for television. It is insidious, and serves only the purposes of advertisers, which are not in our best interests. Yet people willingly hand their children over to it, and never even question whether that is how they want they child programmed. Or themselves, for that matter.