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That ambiguity spikes a lot of fear and concern,” said Miriam Stevenson, who is an executive director at \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.caresolace.org/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Care Solace\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, a company that helps schools connect families with mental health services. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Previously she worked as the director of student services for health and wellness in the Palo Alto Unified School District.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Stevenson said that while Care Solace receives fewer summertime referrals, it’s not because there is less need. It’s because students aren’t at school with extra adult eyes and ears to check in on them. “There’s one less node in our safety net,” she said. When schools succeed at creating \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/61775/how-important-was-your-favorite-teacher-to-your-success-researchers-have-done-the-math\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">a sense of belonging\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, they can be a comforting routine for students or a safe place where they feel socially connected. Stevenson offered advice for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/61186/what-parents-need-to-know-about-their-teens-mental-health\">parents looking to support their kids’ mental health\u003c/a> over the summer and equip them with the tools to embrace joy, conquer challenges and flourish.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>More free time doesn’t have to mean more screen time\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">With more free time on their hands, it’s easy for kids to get sucked into endless hours of \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/59094/does-my-kid-have-a-tech-addiction\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">screen usage\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, especially because kids are also using their devices to connect with friends that they’re no longer seeing at school everyday. An advisory from the U.S. Surgeon General \u003ca href=\"https://ojjdp.ojp.gov/news/juvjust/us-surgeon-general-issues-advisory-social-media-and-youth-mental-health\">recently warned\u003c/a> that “frequent social media use can contribute to poor mental health.” One study cited in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/sg-youth-mental-health-social-media-advisory.pdf\">advisory \u003c/a>\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">found that adolescents who spent over three hours per day on social media were twice as likely to have \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/60788/3-reasons-why-seattle-schools-are-suing-big-tech-over-a-youth-mental-health-crisis\">negative mental health outcomes\u003c/a>, such as depression and anxiety symptoms. “Not all young people are good at setting their own boundaries and they might need you to be the bad guy,” said Stevenson.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The first thing parents can do to limit screen time is to \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/60436/when-parents-practice-good-screen-habits-it-rubs-off-on-the-whole-family\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">lead by example with their own devices\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. “They’re going to do what we do, not what we tell them to do,” added Stevenson. By modeling moderation and offering alternatives that get kids moving and exploring, parents can make a well-rounded summer seem more attainable. Summer is an opportunity to be present with one another as a family, said Stevenson. “Have technology-free times together or meals together — moments where there isn’t a screen that’s interfering with your ability to connect,” she suggested. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Additionally, parents can give their children a screen time budget. “They get to decide how they want to use the amount of screen time that they have,” said Stevenson. “That gives them some autonomy and choice.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>The power of a summer schedule\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Maintaining a routine during the summer can be a powerful tool for supporting children’s mental health, and parents can play a crucial role in establishing and reinforcing this structure. Stevenson encouraged parents to proactively determine a schedule with kids, including \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/60543/what-parents-need-to-monitor-about-teens-sleep-beyond-the-hour-count\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">bedtimes and wake-up times\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. “There’s great freedom in the summer to allow us to go to our natural circadian rhythms. And unfortunately, as lovely as that might be, it’s going to make waking up early harder when they come back [to school],” said Stevenson. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/sleep/about_sleep/sleep_hygiene.html\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Consistent sleep patterns\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> can improve sleep health, which is closely \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://publications.aap.org/aapnews/news/13792?autologincheck=redirected\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">linked to children’s mental health and wellbeing\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. “If you don’t have morning routines or evening routines as a family, the summer is a good time to experiment,” Stevenson said. Creating a daily schedule that includes dedicated time for physical activity, reading, hobbies and socializing can provide a sense of stability and purpose.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Just because school’s out doesn’t mean learning stops. In fact, it’s the best time to learn because you have the sole choice over what you get to be curious, pursue or inquire about,” she added. Outside of the hustle and bustle of the school year, parents can encourage kids to think about how they’re contributing to their community, which can look like setting the table each night, visiting older relatives or volunteering locally. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>Open communication can help parents recognize warning signs\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It can be difficult to identify signs that a kid is struggling with mental health, especially if they are older. Although resources with lists of warning signs exist, they can often read like teenagers being teenagers, Stevenson said. “They’re emotional. They’re volatile. They’re withdrawn. They like to sleep all day.” Instead of scrutinizing every potential symptom, Stevenson suggested parents keep an eye on significant changes in behavior, mood, eating and sleep habits. “Trust that you know your kid,” she said. “You know what their baseline is.” Additionally, parents can establish a daily check-in with their child, such as a text asking how they’re doing or a designated time in the evening to share highs and lows from the day.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">If parents notice warning signs of poor mental health, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/61186/what-parents-need-to-know-about-their-teens-mental-health\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">open and honest communication\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> is vital. Engaging in supportive conversations with their child, expressing concern and actively listening without judgment can create a safe space for them to share their feelings. “Listen and stay in that moment and just let them express themselves. Show them that you can hold very difficult feelings,” said Stevenson. If parents feel out of their depth, they can seek professional help from a pediatrician, therapist or counselor. “Summer can present a lot of great opportunities for intensive mental health support or starting with a therapist,” she added.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>Knowledge is power when it comes to school-year fear\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">At the beginning of the summer, going back to school may be the farthest thing from kids’ minds. But as the school start date gets closer, parents might start to see anxiety levels rise, said Stevenson. “Anytime you’re going to have \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/58462/how-to-help-anxious-students-re-adjust-to-social-settings\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">a transition or there’s an unknown\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, there’s going to be an increase in worry. And if you’re already predisposed or struggling with anxiety, it’s going to exacerbate the challenges that you’re facing,” she said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Parents can work with kids to find out as much information about the next school year as possible in order to dispel any fear of the future. This is especially helpful when kids are starting at a new school either because of a grade change or a recent move. Parents may encourage students to visit school and see where their classes will be or talk to their friends to see if they will be in the same classes. “As much information as they can have about what their day is going to look like and who they’re going to be with is really helpful,” said Stevenson. Additionally, parents can identify any orientation programs that the school may provide.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kids’ mental health needs persist past the end of the school year and through the summer. Embracing this opportunity to reset and focus on mental well-being can set the stage for a fulfilling summer experience and confident start to the new school year.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"While many kids look forward to summer break, it can also be a time when signs of anxiety and depression go unnoticed. Screen time limits and open communication can help.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1687663688,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":15,"wordCount":1327},"headData":{"title":"4 parenting priorities to prevent mental health 'summer slide' | KQED","description":"While many kids look forward to summer break, it can also be a time when signs of emotional distress go unnoticed. Screen time limits and open communication can help.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","socialDescription":"While many kids look forward to summer break, it can also be a time when signs of emotional distress go unnoticed. Screen time limits and open communication can help."},"excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/mindshift/61888/4-parenting-priorities-to-prevent-mental-health-summer-slide","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">With school on break, along with all the homework, tests and \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/59625/three-reasons-teens-need-later-school-start-times\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">early start times\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> that come with it, parents often assume that young people’s stress and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/61186/what-parents-need-to-know-about-their-teens-mental-health\">anxiety\u003c/a> will take a pause as well. However, that’s not always the case, especially as the novelty of summer dwindles. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Without the daily structure of school and extracurricular activities, kids may struggle with boredom or restlessness. “Summer for many of us can feel like this nebulous thing because it is just this endless free time. Additionally, the pressure to make the most of the summer break and fear of missing out on experiences can contribute to feelings of anxiety. That ambiguity spikes a lot of fear and concern,” said Miriam Stevenson, who is an executive director at \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.caresolace.org/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Care Solace\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, a company that helps schools connect families with mental health services. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Previously she worked as the director of student services for health and wellness in the Palo Alto Unified School District.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Stevenson said that while Care Solace receives fewer summertime referrals, it’s not because there is less need. It’s because students aren’t at school with extra adult eyes and ears to check in on them. “There’s one less node in our safety net,” she said. When schools succeed at creating \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/61775/how-important-was-your-favorite-teacher-to-your-success-researchers-have-done-the-math\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">a sense of belonging\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, they can be a comforting routine for students or a safe place where they feel socially connected. Stevenson offered advice for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/61186/what-parents-need-to-know-about-their-teens-mental-health\">parents looking to support their kids’ mental health\u003c/a> over the summer and equip them with the tools to embrace joy, conquer challenges and flourish.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>More free time doesn’t have to mean more screen time\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">With more free time on their hands, it’s easy for kids to get sucked into endless hours of \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/59094/does-my-kid-have-a-tech-addiction\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">screen usage\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, especially because kids are also using their devices to connect with friends that they’re no longer seeing at school everyday. An advisory from the U.S. Surgeon General \u003ca href=\"https://ojjdp.ojp.gov/news/juvjust/us-surgeon-general-issues-advisory-social-media-and-youth-mental-health\">recently warned\u003c/a> that “frequent social media use can contribute to poor mental health.” One study cited in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/sg-youth-mental-health-social-media-advisory.pdf\">advisory \u003c/a>\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">found that adolescents who spent over three hours per day on social media were twice as likely to have \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/60788/3-reasons-why-seattle-schools-are-suing-big-tech-over-a-youth-mental-health-crisis\">negative mental health outcomes\u003c/a>, such as depression and anxiety symptoms. “Not all young people are good at setting their own boundaries and they might need you to be the bad guy,” said Stevenson.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The first thing parents can do to limit screen time is to \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/60436/when-parents-practice-good-screen-habits-it-rubs-off-on-the-whole-family\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">lead by example with their own devices\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. “They’re going to do what we do, not what we tell them to do,” added Stevenson. By modeling moderation and offering alternatives that get kids moving and exploring, parents can make a well-rounded summer seem more attainable. Summer is an opportunity to be present with one another as a family, said Stevenson. “Have technology-free times together or meals together — moments where there isn’t a screen that’s interfering with your ability to connect,” she suggested. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Additionally, parents can give their children a screen time budget. “They get to decide how they want to use the amount of screen time that they have,” said Stevenson. “That gives them some autonomy and choice.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>The power of a summer schedule\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Maintaining a routine during the summer can be a powerful tool for supporting children’s mental health, and parents can play a crucial role in establishing and reinforcing this structure. Stevenson encouraged parents to proactively determine a schedule with kids, including \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/60543/what-parents-need-to-monitor-about-teens-sleep-beyond-the-hour-count\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">bedtimes and wake-up times\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. “There’s great freedom in the summer to allow us to go to our natural circadian rhythms. And unfortunately, as lovely as that might be, it’s going to make waking up early harder when they come back [to school],” said Stevenson. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/sleep/about_sleep/sleep_hygiene.html\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Consistent sleep patterns\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> can improve sleep health, which is closely \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://publications.aap.org/aapnews/news/13792?autologincheck=redirected\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">linked to children’s mental health and wellbeing\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. “If you don’t have morning routines or evening routines as a family, the summer is a good time to experiment,” Stevenson said. Creating a daily schedule that includes dedicated time for physical activity, reading, hobbies and socializing can provide a sense of stability and purpose.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Just because school’s out doesn’t mean learning stops. In fact, it’s the best time to learn because you have the sole choice over what you get to be curious, pursue or inquire about,” she added. Outside of the hustle and bustle of the school year, parents can encourage kids to think about how they’re contributing to their community, which can look like setting the table each night, visiting older relatives or volunteering locally. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>Open communication can help parents recognize warning signs\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It can be difficult to identify signs that a kid is struggling with mental health, especially if they are older. Although resources with lists of warning signs exist, they can often read like teenagers being teenagers, Stevenson said. “They’re emotional. They’re volatile. They’re withdrawn. They like to sleep all day.” Instead of scrutinizing every potential symptom, Stevenson suggested parents keep an eye on significant changes in behavior, mood, eating and sleep habits. “Trust that you know your kid,” she said. “You know what their baseline is.” Additionally, parents can establish a daily check-in with their child, such as a text asking how they’re doing or a designated time in the evening to share highs and lows from the day.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">If parents notice warning signs of poor mental health, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/61186/what-parents-need-to-know-about-their-teens-mental-health\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">open and honest communication\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> is vital. Engaging in supportive conversations with their child, expressing concern and actively listening without judgment can create a safe space for them to share their feelings. “Listen and stay in that moment and just let them express themselves. Show them that you can hold very difficult feelings,” said Stevenson. If parents feel out of their depth, they can seek professional help from a pediatrician, therapist or counselor. “Summer can present a lot of great opportunities for intensive mental health support or starting with a therapist,” she added.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>Knowledge is power when it comes to school-year fear\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">At the beginning of the summer, going back to school may be the farthest thing from kids’ minds. But as the school start date gets closer, parents might start to see anxiety levels rise, said Stevenson. “Anytime you’re going to have \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/58462/how-to-help-anxious-students-re-adjust-to-social-settings\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">a transition or there’s an unknown\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, there’s going to be an increase in worry. And if you’re already predisposed or struggling with anxiety, it’s going to exacerbate the challenges that you’re facing,” she said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Parents can work with kids to find out as much information about the next school year as possible in order to dispel any fear of the future. This is especially helpful when kids are starting at a new school either because of a grade change or a recent move. Parents may encourage students to visit school and see where their classes will be or talk to their friends to see if they will be in the same classes. “As much information as they can have about what their day is going to look like and who they’re going to be with is really helpful,” said Stevenson. Additionally, parents can identify any orientation programs that the school may provide.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kids’ mental health needs persist past the end of the school year and through the summer. Embracing this opportunity to reset and focus on mental well-being can set the stage for a fulfilling summer experience and confident start to the new school year.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/mindshift/61888/4-parenting-priorities-to-prevent-mental-health-summer-slide","authors":["11721"],"categories":["mindshift_21445","mindshift_20729","mindshift_21280","mindshift_21385","mindshift_20697"],"tags":["mindshift_21093","mindshift_20811","mindshift_20589","mindshift_21070","mindshift_21100","mindshift_20865","mindshift_20568","mindshift_290","mindshift_20816","mindshift_634","mindshift_21083","mindshift_514","mindshift_21159","mindshift_1038"],"featImg":"mindshift_61890","label":"mindshift"},"mindshift_61671":{"type":"posts","id":"mindshift_61671","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"mindshift","id":"61671","score":null,"sort":[1684636798000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"teens-say-social-media-is-stressing-them-out-heres-how-to-help-them","title":"Teens say social media is stressing them out. Here's how to help them","publishDate":1684636798,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Teens say social media is stressing them out. Here’s how to help them | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"mindshift"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cem>“What advice would you give to young people who are new to social media?” \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>“Have you ever felt like you need to change your social media use…?”\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teens and young adults from across the country answered these questions in a text survey in 2020. Their answers are eye-opening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“\u003cem>I would tell young people … the internet is far off from reality and the more time you spend on it, the more you forget what real life is actually like…,” \u003c/em>one person wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>“Don’t let social media control your life or your self-esteem,” \u003c/em>another texted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The study, \u003ca href=\"https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35691849/\">published\u003c/a> in September, reveals a striking awareness about the potential harms social media can have on teenagers’ mental health, but also their persistent attempts to counter these harms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some respondents explicitly said social media made them feel depressed. Many asked their parents to help them stop using it. Nearly two-thirds of respondents gave some version of this advice to future teens: Don’t use social media. It’s OK to abstain. Or delete your accounts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>“I have repeatedly deleted Instagram in an effort to improve my emotional state but then, I reinstall. Many times,” \u003c/em>a respondent wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 95% of U.S. teens today use some type of social media, and about a third say they use it “almost constantly,” the Pew Research Center \u003ca href=\"https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2022/08/10/teens-social-media-and-technology-2022/\">found in August\u003c/a>. At the same time, teens and tweens are facing a \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/03/01/1160478454/the-kids-arent-alright-the-post-pandemic-teen-mental-health-crisis\">mental health crisis\u003c/a>. And \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/04/25/1171773181/social-media-teens-mental-health\">research indicates\u003c/a> that these two trends are intertwined: that social media can cause depression and lower life satisfaction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While clinicians and psychologists try to come up with remedies to this crisis, some of them are realizing something paradoxical: Teens and young adults may be the best source of advice and solutions. \u003cem>They \u003c/em>are the experts of these apps — not their parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And they’ve been affected by social media more than any other generation, says Emma Lembke, who’s 20 and founded the \u003ca href=\"https://www.logoffmovement.org/\">Log Off Movement\u003c/a> to help teens have a healthy relationship with social media. “We, Gen Z, have felt so tangibly the impact of being left alone to big tech’s profit business model,” she explains. “And that relationship is completely asymmetric, and it is just harming young people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By listening to young people, Lembke believes, parents can work with teens to help them minimize the harms of these platforms while maximizing their benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I do believe social media has great aspects as well,” says \u003ca href=\"https://rijularora.com/\">Rijul Arora\u003c/a>, age 26, a digital wellness coach and consultant who leads a project called \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/lookupindia4youth/\">LookUp India\u003c/a>, aimed at helping teens unhook from social media. “I’ve been given a lot of opportunities because of social media. I can amplify positive content, and I’m connecting with a lot of people worldwide.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re a young adult struggling to keep up with school because you can’t put down your phone, Arora and Lembke don’t advise trying to cut off from social media altogether. Instead, they say find the sweet spot, “where you take the positive but leave the negative.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The goal is to give youth more agency over social media apps, Arora says. “So teens are using these apps instead of the apps using teens.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And parents, this all applies to you too: Here’s how to support and nudge your teen toward balanced screen use, while changing your own habits.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Step 1: Learn what you’re up against\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Here’s what teens and young adults say over and over again: Know what you are up against with social media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back when Lembke was in sixth grade, she really, really, \u003cem>really \u003c/em>wanted a phone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I remember as each one of my friends got a phone, each one of them was getting pulled away from conversations with me, from even playing on the playground,” Lembke explains. “So my initial response to this phenomenon was ‘OK, there must be something so magical and amazing within these social media apps.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then she got her own phone, she says, “And I remember for the first few months I was in love with Instagram.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One day, I think I commented, [to] Olive Garden, ‘I love you.’ And they responded, ‘We love you, too.'” Lembke says. “And I was screaming around the house. It felt like the best day ever.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But within a few months, her time on her phone had increased from one hour to five or six hours each day. And her relationship with her phone shifted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I realized that the magic I thought Instagram — and all these social media apps — had was really just an illusion,” she says. “As I began to scroll more, I felt my mental, and physical health really suffer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lembke wishes someone would have told her about this possibility before she began using social media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have an anxiety disorder, and I have OCD,” Lembke \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wrCUcfb7mc\">told\u003c/a> Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., in March 2022, during a roundtable hosted by the nonprofit \u003ca href=\"https://accountabletech.org/\">Accountable Tech\u003c/a>. “I was never warned that entering these online platforms would only amplify the things that I already struggle with.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meta’s global head of safety, Antigone Davis, said in a statement emailed to NPR that the company refers to research on social media and feedback from teens and families. The company has launched “more than 30 tools to support families,” she says, including some “that allow teens and parents to navigate social media safely together.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A representative from TikTok noted in an email that the company released a tool in March for users to monitor their screen time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So here’s what Lembke and other young people want you to know about how the apps work:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>1. These apps aren’t necessarily going to improve your life.\u003c/em> They aren’t necessarily going to help your fear of missing out. In fact, some teens say their feelings of FOMO actually worsened after starting social media. And for teenagers who are already struggling with mental health problems, studies \u003ca href=\"https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3919760\">suggest \u003c/a>that social media can exacerbate these issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>2. The goal is to keep you on the phone, even if you don’t want to stay.\u003c/em> Even if you feel like social media is hurting you. The apps are \u003ca href=\"https://www.ted.com/talks/nir_eyal_what_makes_technology_so_habit_forming\">designed to keep you using them\u003c/a> so you can see ads. That’s how social media companies make money, Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/books/edition/Zuckerberg_Senate_Transcript_2018/3Oh1EAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22What+we+allow+is+for+advertisers+to+tell+us+who+they+want+to+reach,+and+then+we+do+the+placement.+So,+if+an+advertiser+comes+to+us+and+says,+%27All+right,+I+am+a+ski+shop+and+I+want+to+sell+skis+to+women,%27+then+we+might+have+some+sense,+because+people+shared+skiing-related+content,+or+said+they+were+interested+in+that,+they+shared+whether+they%27re+a+woman,+and+then+we+can+show+the+ads+to+the+right+people+without+that+data+ever+changing+hands+and+going+to+the+advertiser.%22&pg=PT46&printsec=frontcover\">explained\u003c/a> to Congress in 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Social media apps tap into an ancient pathway in your brain that makes you crave using them and makes it extremely difficult to stop, says neuroscientist \u003ca href=\"https://en.samaha-lab.com/about/samaha/\">Anne-Noël Samaha\u003c/a> at the University of Montreal. “Social media apps know very well how to exploit human behavior to keep you coming back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many teens say they feel like social media apps control \u003cem>them \u003c/em>instead of vice versa. “I felt this addiction. I felt this pull, as if I had lost agency…,” Lembke said to Sen. Blumenthal. “As a young female, as a young person, that’s incredibly scary.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But here’s the third thing teens say, over and over again about social media overuse: You can break the habit. And it starts with one key step: a digital audit.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Step 2: Get your baseline\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Because of the way social media taps into our brain circuitry, most of the time we hardly realize we’re using the apps. It’s habitual or even subconscious. That’s why young people suggest doing a digital audit to help bring this usage into your consciousness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a project in high school English class, Sofie Keppler tracked the time she spent on each app on her phone each day for a week. The results triggered several big epiphanies for the 16-year-old: “First, that I was using my phone like a lot — I mean \u003cem>a lot\u003c/em> — more than I thought,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Second, “it made me think like, maybe I should limit myself … so I’m not always on social media, and I’m talking to everyone around me,” she says. “The more I was on the phone, the more I was ignoring people in social settings.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ironically, you can do a digital audit easily with an app, such as Apple \u003ca href=\"https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/view-your-screen-time-summary-iph24dcd4fb8/ios\">Screen Time\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://appadvice.com/app/moment-cut-screen-time/771541926\">Moment\u003c/a>, Toggl \u003ca href=\"https://toggl.com/track/\">Track\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.rescuetime.com/\">Rescue Time\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Facts don’t lie … [tracking my usage] really got my eyes to open up,” Lembke says on the Log Off podcast. “When I downloaded Moment and I saw I had like 200 pickups of my phone each day, I was horrified. People don’t understand those statistics … until they really, really see them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then once you understand your baseline, have self-compassion, says Rijul Arora, who has struggled with what he describes as an addiction to social media himself. Don’t feel ashamed or anxious about it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In workshops he gives on managing social media use, he tells teens: “Even if you have very high screen time … first acknowledge that you’re doing that, and it’s OK to be that way,” he says. Then when a teen seems ready to change, he adds: “It’s not OK to \u003cem>stay \u003c/em>that way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Which brings us to the next step.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Step 3: Add “friction” to make yourself pause\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Just as friction on the road slows down your car, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/09/30/1127249176/yael-eisenstat-why-we-need-more-friction-on-social-media\">friction\u003c/a> on social media slows your usage. Basically, it’s adding apps that throw up small obstacles when using social media. Friction makes you pause for a bit and think before you mindlessly log on, scroll or click.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some “friction” even makes you take breaths, fill out a wellness survey or meditate after some amount of time engaged with social media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adding friction is surprisingly easy. Again, there are a bunch of apps. Lembke recommends \u003ca href=\"https://habitlab.github.io/\">HabitLab\u003c/a> from Stanford University. The app uses more than 20 interventions to reduce your time on whatever apps you choose. For example, HabitLab runs a clock at the top of the screen showing how much time you’ve spent on the app. It also blocks your news feeds and even stops your scroll after a certain amount of time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For some apps, it uses an intervention called “Feed Diet,” which hides recommended content. Or it uses the “Mission Goal” intervention, which makes you type in why you’re entering this site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other friction apps include \u003ca href=\"https://apps.shopmoment.com/\">Moment\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://freedom.to/\">Freedom\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.forestapp.cc/\">Forest\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://screentime.stanford.edu/\">Screentime Genie\u003c/a>. Both \u003ca href=\"https://about.instagram.com/blog/announcements/tools-and-resources-for-parents-and-teens-in-vr-and-on-instagram\">Instagram \u003c/a>and \u003ca href=\"https://support.tiktok.com/en/account-and-privacy/account-information/screen-time\">TikTok\u003c/a> also have tools inside the apps to add friction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Do these friction apps work? “Oh, I think my screen time decreased by like 80%” while using HabitLab, Lembke says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re tired of apps, Lembke recommends something she created: the five-minute power scroll. While looking at your news feed, stop at each image for five minutes. Say to yourself, “OK, with this image and with this person, why am I following them? Does this image make me happy? Am I benefiting from their content?” And if not, “unfollow them and give yourself grace to do that,” Lembke says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This five-minute power scroll helps you reflect on why you’re using the app and what you want to prioritize during your time online, she says. “It’s how can I maximize its benefits for me, while mitigating its harms.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Step 4: Hack your apps’ default settings\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>On many apps, Arora says, the default settings tickle his brain circuitry in a way that amplifies his cravings and habitual overuse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Never go by the default settings that tech companies give you,” says Arora. “Kids love this tip! Because they hate to be manipulated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over and over again, teens say that turning off notifications is the first — perhaps the most critical — step here. You can do it for only certain times of day, if you need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But also explore all the setting options, Arora says, including those related to privacy, your feed, comments and likes. “For example, many people don’t realize that you can turn off ‘likes’ on Instagram,” he says. “This helps reduce the competitiveness of the app.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And if an app recommends videos or other content, or starts the next video on auto-play, don’t click. Go and find the video you \u003cem>want \u003c/em>to look at, Lembke says. Remember, she says, you’re in charge. Not the app.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both \u003ca href=\"https://about.instagram.com/blog/announcements/giving-young-people-a-safer-more-private-experience\">Instagram\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://newsroom.tiktok.com/en-us/new-features-for-teens-and-families-on-tiktok-us\">TikTok \u003c/a>have information for parents on how to set up teens’ accounts in a way that makes them safer but also can help with overuse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, TikTok has started setting all users under age 18 to a screen time limit of 60 minutes each day. When they reach that limit, the app prompts them to enter a passcode if they want to keep watching, “requiring them to make an active decision to extend that time,” the company explained in March.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in Instagram, teens can turn on notifications that urge them to “take a break” after a certain amount of scrolling. The app will also “suggest that they set reminders to take more breaks in the future,” Adam Mosseri, head of Instagram, \u003ca href=\"https://about.instagram.com/blog/announcements/raising-the-standard-for-protecting-teens-and-supporting-parents-online\">noted \u003c/a>in December 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Step 5: Enrich your 3D life\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>This one is huge. And it comes from Alassane Sow, 20, who’s studying environmental microbiology at Michigan State University. He and many other young people notice that they use social media when they’re bored (or stressed and need a distraction).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of people have a sort of shame when they see that they have 10 hours of screen time a day, and they don’t like that,” Sow explains. “But they don’t have anything else to do — or they feel like they don’t.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sow saw this in himself. “At some point, I realized that I couldn’t sit down for five minutes in my own space without looking at my phone for some sort of stimulus. That’s when I noticed, like, something was off,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So he went out and started to find \u003cem>other \u003c/em>hobbies that don’t use his phone. He even has a special name for this: long-format entertainment. These are activities that take time to complete, such as reading a book, or drawing a picture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These activities make sure my brain isn’t only entertained by short videos and stuff like that,” he explains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I consciously plan to do them — instead of being on my phone, I say to myself, ‘I’m going to read a chapter of this book today or I’m going to go see my friends — that’s my favorite thing to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Psychologists, psychiatrists and therapists agree wholeheartedly with Sow. Reinvigorating your life offline is critical to healthy social media usage. Then cutting down social media becomes much easier. You don’t have to accept boredom offline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m a big believer in passion in your life,” explains therapist Bob Keane at Walden Behavioral Care. “What do you really like to learn? What gets you really excited besides your phone? And that’s, I think, what we really have to encourage kids to develop.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not sure where to get started finding a passion? Lembke’s Log Off project has a whole series of projects and challenges to try, from dipping your toe into the 3D world to taking on big, long-term projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Step 6: Reach out to your parents for help — or if you’re a parent, get involved\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>This isn’t ironic or a joke. Teenagers say over and over again that they want their parents to help them regulate their social media use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They don’t want parents to rip the phone away or be controlling or bossy. And they definitely don’t want to feel judged or shamed for their social media use. But they want parents to listen empathetically, offer gentle advice and set up guard rails. Even some rules. They want help learning to manage their device themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In order to prevent addiction and manage digital wellbeing, it is important for parents to set boundaries for their children/teenagers,” writes recent high school graduate Keegan Lee in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.logoffmovement.org/post/a-message-from-gen-z-to-parents\">blog post\u003c/a> on Log Off, called “A Message from Gen Z to Parents.” Lee describes how to talk to teens about their usage and gives some ideas for how to set up rules, including “Try to keep tech out of the bedroom.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Children may not like this suggestion,” she continues, “however, explain to them the purpose of the bedroom is used to rest and recharge.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also, Lee suggests setting clear consequences and punishments when kids violate tech rules. And “revisit the rules frequently,” she writes. If parents don’t help kids manage their screen use, she explains, no one else will.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keane at Walden Behavioral Care says teenagers in his support group told him the same idea. “The kids were pretty clear to us that they need help,” he says. “They need help figuring out ways to be able to manage this because they told us, clearly, ‘We can’t do it by ourselves.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the rules need to apply to the whole family, including the parents themselves. “For example, if you have a family dinner, no one has a device at the table,” Keane suggests. “If a parent is driving your adolescent to a game or a practice … the parent can say, ‘If you’re going to want me to drive you, you’re not on your phone, you’re talking to me.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The goal is simple but critical: Get kids back in the habit of socializing face-to-face. Because unlike online interactions, talking to other humans in person “is the glue of genuine human connection,” says therapist Kameron Mendes, who works with Keane at Walden Behavioral Center. And it’s time to replenish that glue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Adolescence is when kids start to become their own people in the world,” Mendes adds. “They try on finding friends, connecting with other people and connecting with other types of values and ideas. For that process to take hold and flourish, we really need to restore some level of human connection.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2023 NPR. 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Their answers are eye-opening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“\u003cem>I would tell young people … the internet is far off from reality and the more time you spend on it, the more you forget what real life is actually like…,” \u003c/em>one person wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>“Don’t let social media control your life or your self-esteem,” \u003c/em>another texted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The study, \u003ca href=\"https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35691849/\">published\u003c/a> in September, reveals a striking awareness about the potential harms social media can have on teenagers’ mental health, but also their persistent attempts to counter these harms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some respondents explicitly said social media made them feel depressed. Many asked their parents to help them stop using it. Nearly two-thirds of respondents gave some version of this advice to future teens: Don’t use social media. It’s OK to abstain. Or delete your accounts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>“I have repeatedly deleted Instagram in an effort to improve my emotional state but then, I reinstall. Many times,” \u003c/em>a respondent wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 95% of U.S. teens today use some type of social media, and about a third say they use it “almost constantly,” the Pew Research Center \u003ca href=\"https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2022/08/10/teens-social-media-and-technology-2022/\">found in August\u003c/a>. At the same time, teens and tweens are facing a \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/03/01/1160478454/the-kids-arent-alright-the-post-pandemic-teen-mental-health-crisis\">mental health crisis\u003c/a>. And \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/04/25/1171773181/social-media-teens-mental-health\">research indicates\u003c/a> that these two trends are intertwined: that social media can cause depression and lower life satisfaction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While clinicians and psychologists try to come up with remedies to this crisis, some of them are realizing something paradoxical: Teens and young adults may be the best source of advice and solutions. \u003cem>They \u003c/em>are the experts of these apps — not their parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And they’ve been affected by social media more than any other generation, says Emma Lembke, who’s 20 and founded the \u003ca href=\"https://www.logoffmovement.org/\">Log Off Movement\u003c/a> to help teens have a healthy relationship with social media. “We, Gen Z, have felt so tangibly the impact of being left alone to big tech’s profit business model,” she explains. “And that relationship is completely asymmetric, and it is just harming young people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By listening to young people, Lembke believes, parents can work with teens to help them minimize the harms of these platforms while maximizing their benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I do believe social media has great aspects as well,” says \u003ca href=\"https://rijularora.com/\">Rijul Arora\u003c/a>, age 26, a digital wellness coach and consultant who leads a project called \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/lookupindia4youth/\">LookUp India\u003c/a>, aimed at helping teens unhook from social media. “I’ve been given a lot of opportunities because of social media. I can amplify positive content, and I’m connecting with a lot of people worldwide.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re a young adult struggling to keep up with school because you can’t put down your phone, Arora and Lembke don’t advise trying to cut off from social media altogether. Instead, they say find the sweet spot, “where you take the positive but leave the negative.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The goal is to give youth more agency over social media apps, Arora says. “So teens are using these apps instead of the apps using teens.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And parents, this all applies to you too: Here’s how to support and nudge your teen toward balanced screen use, while changing your own habits.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Step 1: Learn what you’re up against\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Here’s what teens and young adults say over and over again: Know what you are up against with social media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back when Lembke was in sixth grade, she really, really, \u003cem>really \u003c/em>wanted a phone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I remember as each one of my friends got a phone, each one of them was getting pulled away from conversations with me, from even playing on the playground,” Lembke explains. “So my initial response to this phenomenon was ‘OK, there must be something so magical and amazing within these social media apps.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then she got her own phone, she says, “And I remember for the first few months I was in love with Instagram.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One day, I think I commented, [to] Olive Garden, ‘I love you.’ And they responded, ‘We love you, too.'” Lembke says. “And I was screaming around the house. It felt like the best day ever.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But within a few months, her time on her phone had increased from one hour to five or six hours each day. And her relationship with her phone shifted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I realized that the magic I thought Instagram — and all these social media apps — had was really just an illusion,” she says. “As I began to scroll more, I felt my mental, and physical health really suffer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lembke wishes someone would have told her about this possibility before she began using social media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have an anxiety disorder, and I have OCD,” Lembke \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wrCUcfb7mc\">told\u003c/a> Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., in March 2022, during a roundtable hosted by the nonprofit \u003ca href=\"https://accountabletech.org/\">Accountable Tech\u003c/a>. “I was never warned that entering these online platforms would only amplify the things that I already struggle with.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meta’s global head of safety, Antigone Davis, said in a statement emailed to NPR that the company refers to research on social media and feedback from teens and families. The company has launched “more than 30 tools to support families,” she says, including some “that allow teens and parents to navigate social media safely together.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A representative from TikTok noted in an email that the company released a tool in March for users to monitor their screen time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So here’s what Lembke and other young people want you to know about how the apps work:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>1. These apps aren’t necessarily going to improve your life.\u003c/em> They aren’t necessarily going to help your fear of missing out. In fact, some teens say their feelings of FOMO actually worsened after starting social media. And for teenagers who are already struggling with mental health problems, studies \u003ca href=\"https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3919760\">suggest \u003c/a>that social media can exacerbate these issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>2. The goal is to keep you on the phone, even if you don’t want to stay.\u003c/em> Even if you feel like social media is hurting you. The apps are \u003ca href=\"https://www.ted.com/talks/nir_eyal_what_makes_technology_so_habit_forming\">designed to keep you using them\u003c/a> so you can see ads. That’s how social media companies make money, Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/books/edition/Zuckerberg_Senate_Transcript_2018/3Oh1EAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22What+we+allow+is+for+advertisers+to+tell+us+who+they+want+to+reach,+and+then+we+do+the+placement.+So,+if+an+advertiser+comes+to+us+and+says,+%27All+right,+I+am+a+ski+shop+and+I+want+to+sell+skis+to+women,%27+then+we+might+have+some+sense,+because+people+shared+skiing-related+content,+or+said+they+were+interested+in+that,+they+shared+whether+they%27re+a+woman,+and+then+we+can+show+the+ads+to+the+right+people+without+that+data+ever+changing+hands+and+going+to+the+advertiser.%22&pg=PT46&printsec=frontcover\">explained\u003c/a> to Congress in 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Social media apps tap into an ancient pathway in your brain that makes you crave using them and makes it extremely difficult to stop, says neuroscientist \u003ca href=\"https://en.samaha-lab.com/about/samaha/\">Anne-Noël Samaha\u003c/a> at the University of Montreal. “Social media apps know very well how to exploit human behavior to keep you coming back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many teens say they feel like social media apps control \u003cem>them \u003c/em>instead of vice versa. “I felt this addiction. I felt this pull, as if I had lost agency…,” Lembke said to Sen. Blumenthal. “As a young female, as a young person, that’s incredibly scary.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But here’s the third thing teens say, over and over again about social media overuse: You can break the habit. And it starts with one key step: a digital audit.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Step 2: Get your baseline\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Because of the way social media taps into our brain circuitry, most of the time we hardly realize we’re using the apps. It’s habitual or even subconscious. That’s why young people suggest doing a digital audit to help bring this usage into your consciousness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a project in high school English class, Sofie Keppler tracked the time she spent on each app on her phone each day for a week. The results triggered several big epiphanies for the 16-year-old: “First, that I was using my phone like a lot — I mean \u003cem>a lot\u003c/em> — more than I thought,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Second, “it made me think like, maybe I should limit myself … so I’m not always on social media, and I’m talking to everyone around me,” she says. “The more I was on the phone, the more I was ignoring people in social settings.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ironically, you can do a digital audit easily with an app, such as Apple \u003ca href=\"https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/view-your-screen-time-summary-iph24dcd4fb8/ios\">Screen Time\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://appadvice.com/app/moment-cut-screen-time/771541926\">Moment\u003c/a>, Toggl \u003ca href=\"https://toggl.com/track/\">Track\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.rescuetime.com/\">Rescue Time\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Facts don’t lie … [tracking my usage] really got my eyes to open up,” Lembke says on the Log Off podcast. “When I downloaded Moment and I saw I had like 200 pickups of my phone each day, I was horrified. People don’t understand those statistics … until they really, really see them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then once you understand your baseline, have self-compassion, says Rijul Arora, who has struggled with what he describes as an addiction to social media himself. Don’t feel ashamed or anxious about it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In workshops he gives on managing social media use, he tells teens: “Even if you have very high screen time … first acknowledge that you’re doing that, and it’s OK to be that way,” he says. Then when a teen seems ready to change, he adds: “It’s not OK to \u003cem>stay \u003c/em>that way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Which brings us to the next step.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Step 3: Add “friction” to make yourself pause\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Just as friction on the road slows down your car, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/09/30/1127249176/yael-eisenstat-why-we-need-more-friction-on-social-media\">friction\u003c/a> on social media slows your usage. Basically, it’s adding apps that throw up small obstacles when using social media. Friction makes you pause for a bit and think before you mindlessly log on, scroll or click.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some “friction” even makes you take breaths, fill out a wellness survey or meditate after some amount of time engaged with social media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adding friction is surprisingly easy. Again, there are a bunch of apps. Lembke recommends \u003ca href=\"https://habitlab.github.io/\">HabitLab\u003c/a> from Stanford University. The app uses more than 20 interventions to reduce your time on whatever apps you choose. For example, HabitLab runs a clock at the top of the screen showing how much time you’ve spent on the app. It also blocks your news feeds and even stops your scroll after a certain amount of time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For some apps, it uses an intervention called “Feed Diet,” which hides recommended content. Or it uses the “Mission Goal” intervention, which makes you type in why you’re entering this site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other friction apps include \u003ca href=\"https://apps.shopmoment.com/\">Moment\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://freedom.to/\">Freedom\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.forestapp.cc/\">Forest\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://screentime.stanford.edu/\">Screentime Genie\u003c/a>. Both \u003ca href=\"https://about.instagram.com/blog/announcements/tools-and-resources-for-parents-and-teens-in-vr-and-on-instagram\">Instagram \u003c/a>and \u003ca href=\"https://support.tiktok.com/en/account-and-privacy/account-information/screen-time\">TikTok\u003c/a> also have tools inside the apps to add friction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Do these friction apps work? “Oh, I think my screen time decreased by like 80%” while using HabitLab, Lembke says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re tired of apps, Lembke recommends something she created: the five-minute power scroll. While looking at your news feed, stop at each image for five minutes. Say to yourself, “OK, with this image and with this person, why am I following them? Does this image make me happy? Am I benefiting from their content?” And if not, “unfollow them and give yourself grace to do that,” Lembke says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This five-minute power scroll helps you reflect on why you’re using the app and what you want to prioritize during your time online, she says. “It’s how can I maximize its benefits for me, while mitigating its harms.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Step 4: Hack your apps’ default settings\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>On many apps, Arora says, the default settings tickle his brain circuitry in a way that amplifies his cravings and habitual overuse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Never go by the default settings that tech companies give you,” says Arora. “Kids love this tip! Because they hate to be manipulated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over and over again, teens say that turning off notifications is the first — perhaps the most critical — step here. You can do it for only certain times of day, if you need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But also explore all the setting options, Arora says, including those related to privacy, your feed, comments and likes. “For example, many people don’t realize that you can turn off ‘likes’ on Instagram,” he says. “This helps reduce the competitiveness of the app.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And if an app recommends videos or other content, or starts the next video on auto-play, don’t click. Go and find the video you \u003cem>want \u003c/em>to look at, Lembke says. Remember, she says, you’re in charge. Not the app.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both \u003ca href=\"https://about.instagram.com/blog/announcements/giving-young-people-a-safer-more-private-experience\">Instagram\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://newsroom.tiktok.com/en-us/new-features-for-teens-and-families-on-tiktok-us\">TikTok \u003c/a>have information for parents on how to set up teens’ accounts in a way that makes them safer but also can help with overuse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, TikTok has started setting all users under age 18 to a screen time limit of 60 minutes each day. When they reach that limit, the app prompts them to enter a passcode if they want to keep watching, “requiring them to make an active decision to extend that time,” the company explained in March.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in Instagram, teens can turn on notifications that urge them to “take a break” after a certain amount of scrolling. The app will also “suggest that they set reminders to take more breaks in the future,” Adam Mosseri, head of Instagram, \u003ca href=\"https://about.instagram.com/blog/announcements/raising-the-standard-for-protecting-teens-and-supporting-parents-online\">noted \u003c/a>in December 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Step 5: Enrich your 3D life\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>This one is huge. And it comes from Alassane Sow, 20, who’s studying environmental microbiology at Michigan State University. He and many other young people notice that they use social media when they’re bored (or stressed and need a distraction).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of people have a sort of shame when they see that they have 10 hours of screen time a day, and they don’t like that,” Sow explains. “But they don’t have anything else to do — or they feel like they don’t.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sow saw this in himself. “At some point, I realized that I couldn’t sit down for five minutes in my own space without looking at my phone for some sort of stimulus. That’s when I noticed, like, something was off,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So he went out and started to find \u003cem>other \u003c/em>hobbies that don’t use his phone. He even has a special name for this: long-format entertainment. These are activities that take time to complete, such as reading a book, or drawing a picture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These activities make sure my brain isn’t only entertained by short videos and stuff like that,” he explains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I consciously plan to do them — instead of being on my phone, I say to myself, ‘I’m going to read a chapter of this book today or I’m going to go see my friends — that’s my favorite thing to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Psychologists, psychiatrists and therapists agree wholeheartedly with Sow. Reinvigorating your life offline is critical to healthy social media usage. Then cutting down social media becomes much easier. You don’t have to accept boredom offline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m a big believer in passion in your life,” explains therapist Bob Keane at Walden Behavioral Care. “What do you really like to learn? What gets you really excited besides your phone? And that’s, I think, what we really have to encourage kids to develop.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not sure where to get started finding a passion? Lembke’s Log Off project has a whole series of projects and challenges to try, from dipping your toe into the 3D world to taking on big, long-term projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Step 6: Reach out to your parents for help — or if you’re a parent, get involved\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>This isn’t ironic or a joke. Teenagers say over and over again that they want their parents to help them regulate their social media use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They don’t want parents to rip the phone away or be controlling or bossy. And they definitely don’t want to feel judged or shamed for their social media use. But they want parents to listen empathetically, offer gentle advice and set up guard rails. Even some rules. They want help learning to manage their device themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In order to prevent addiction and manage digital wellbeing, it is important for parents to set boundaries for their children/teenagers,” writes recent high school graduate Keegan Lee in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.logoffmovement.org/post/a-message-from-gen-z-to-parents\">blog post\u003c/a> on Log Off, called “A Message from Gen Z to Parents.” Lee describes how to talk to teens about their usage and gives some ideas for how to set up rules, including “Try to keep tech out of the bedroom.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Children may not like this suggestion,” she continues, “however, explain to them the purpose of the bedroom is used to rest and recharge.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also, Lee suggests setting clear consequences and punishments when kids violate tech rules. And “revisit the rules frequently,” she writes. If parents don’t help kids manage their screen use, she explains, no one else will.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keane at Walden Behavioral Care says teenagers in his support group told him the same idea. “The kids were pretty clear to us that they need help,” he says. “They need help figuring out ways to be able to manage this because they told us, clearly, ‘We can’t do it by ourselves.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the rules need to apply to the whole family, including the parents themselves. “For example, if you have a family dinner, no one has a device at the table,” Keane suggests. “If a parent is driving your adolescent to a game or a practice … the parent can say, ‘If you’re going to want me to drive you, you’re not on your phone, you’re talking to me.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The goal is simple but critical: Get kids back in the habit of socializing face-to-face. Because unlike online interactions, talking to other humans in person “is the glue of genuine human connection,” says therapist Kameron Mendes, who works with Keane at Walden Behavioral Center. And it’s time to replenish that glue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Adolescence is when kids start to become their own people in the world,” Mendes adds. “They try on finding friends, connecting with other people and connecting with other types of values and ideas. For that process to take hold and flourish, we really need to restore some level of human connection.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2023 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Teens+say+social+media+is+stressing+them+out.+Here%27s+how+to+help+them&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/mindshift/61671/teens-say-social-media-is-stressing-them-out-heres-how-to-help-them","authors":["byline_mindshift_61671"],"categories":["mindshift_21445","mindshift_21280","mindshift_21385","mindshift_20874"],"tags":["mindshift_20865","mindshift_30","mindshift_20925","mindshift_20624","mindshift_1038"],"featImg":"mindshift_61672","label":"mindshift"},"mindshift_61186":{"type":"posts","id":"mindshift_61186","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"mindshift","id":"61186","score":null,"sort":[1678273222000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"what-parents-need-to-know-about-their-teens-mental-health","title":"What parents need to know about their teens’ mental health","publishDate":1678273222,"format":"standard","headTitle":"What parents need to know about their teens’ mental health | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"mindshift"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Years ago, when I was still coaching high school cross country, a teenage girl skipped up to me after practice with a warning: Don’t count on her to race all the time. If her nerves got too intense before races, she might have to bow out in advance. “I have anxiety!” she explained with a nervous grin.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright wp-image-61195 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/03/EMOTIONAL-LIVES-OF-TEENAGERS-Cover-flat-160x242.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"242\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/03/EMOTIONAL-LIVES-OF-TEENAGERS-Cover-flat-160x242.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/03/EMOTIONAL-LIVES-OF-TEENAGERS-Cover-flat.jpg 298w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">I recalled this episode while reading psychologist and author \u003ca href=\"https://drlisadamour.com/bio/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lisa Damour’s\u003c/a> refreshing new book, \u003ca href=\"https://drlisadamour.com/books/the-emotional-lives-of-teenagers/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">“The Emotional Lives of Teenagers: Raising Connected, Capable, and Compassionate Adolescents.”\u003c/a> Damour’s voice is forceful but comforting, and she uses it here to drive home her central point: Achieving mental health does not mean a life without unhappiness, anguish, anger, worry or self-doubt. Rather, these painful emotional states are an unavoidable feature of being human, especially for young people buzzing with hormones and adjusting to operatic moods prompted by recent rewiring of their brains. To best help their developing teenagers, parents should work to build their self-esteem and then guide them in learning how to express and manage these feelings. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_61194\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 160px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-61194 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/03/DAMOUR-Headshot-Small-File-by-Downie-Photo-scaled-e1678251227174-160x160.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"160\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/03/DAMOUR-Headshot-Small-File-by-Downie-Photo-scaled-e1678251227174-160x160.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/03/DAMOUR-Headshot-Small-File-by-Downie-Photo-scaled-e1678251227174-800x800.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/03/DAMOUR-Headshot-Small-File-by-Downie-Photo-scaled-e1678251227174-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/03/DAMOUR-Headshot-Small-File-by-Downie-Photo-scaled-e1678251227174-768x768.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/03/DAMOUR-Headshot-Small-File-by-Downie-Photo-scaled-e1678251227174-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/03/DAMOUR-Headshot-Small-File-by-Downie-Photo-scaled-e1678251227174.jpg 1708w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lisa Damour \u003ccite>(Downie Photo/Courtesy of Lisa Damour)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Damour explains how we got to the point of considering unhappiness an aberration from some imaginary blissful norm. To start, advances in antidepressant medications made them safer and more attractive to the masses; she earnestly acknowledges that psychotropic medications improve and sometimes save lives. But prescriptions for Prozac and its medicinal brethren are as ubiquitous today as those for hypertension and cholesterol, making ordinary disappointment seem like a problem in need of a chemical solution. The mental wellness industry, too, \u003ca href=\"https://globalwellnessinstitute.org/industry-research/the-global-wellness-economy-looking-beyond-covid/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">worth about $131 billion globally\u003c/a>, sells the idea that feeling rotten is avoidable (if you purchase just the right eucalyptus oil or bath bomb). Finally, because \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/61031/teen-girls-and-lgbtq-youth-plagued-by-violence-and-trauma-survey-says\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">adolescents are in fact gloomier today than they were just ten years ago\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, it’s harder for parents and kids to figure out what distinguishes a legitimate mental health crisis from everyday emotional discomfort.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">On this last point, Damour shares the findings of social psychologist Jonathan Haidt and psychology professor Jean Twenge who are \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/document/d/1diMvsMeRphUH7E6D1d_J7R6WbDdgnzFHDHPx9HXzR5o/edit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">sounding the alarm about youth mental health\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">: Just before the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, 44 percent of teenagers reported experiencing anxiety, up from 34 percent about ten years ago; 37 percent felt “persistently sad or hopeless”; 16 percent of teenagers said that they’d developed a suicide plan. Those self-reported findings were matched by increases in hospitalizations for self-harm and a surge in the number of completed suicides, mostly since 2012. New \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/healthyyouth/data/yrbs/yrbs_data_summary_and_trends.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">findings\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> released by the CDC in February revealed that \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/61031/teen-girls-and-lgbtq-youth-plagued-by-violence-and-trauma-survey-says\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">girls and LGBTQ+ youth especially are floundering\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Whether from what Haidt calls the rise in “\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/61026/10-things-to-know-about-how-social-media-affects-teens-brains\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">phone-based childhoods\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">,” creeping \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/60498/what-parents-should-know-about-eco-anxiety-and-its-impact-on-todays-teens\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">existential despair\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, or the effect of \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/60624/young-adults-are-struggling-with-their-mental-health-is-more-childhood-independence-the-answer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">too little free and unstructured time\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> — and likely some combination of all these and more — adolescents are struggling today in ways that they weren’t just a decade ago. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">What’s a conscientious parent to do? “One of the most important things we can do for teenagers is help them distinguish between emotions that are uncomfortable (and) emotions that are unmanageable,” Damour told me. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Mothers and fathers should help their young children build authentic self-esteem by celebrating kids’ actions and avoiding effusive praise. Encourage girls and boys to be of service to others, not only to interrupt their solipsistic mindset, but also to reinforce their ability to make a difference. Next, urge them to develop an interest that’s unrelated to school or college applications, like cooking or knitting. Indulging an intrinsic interest is protective of kids’ feelings of self-worth. Finally, get going on these pursuits before a child reaches middle school, when even the healthiest child might falter. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The best thing parents can do after this is help their children learn both to express and regulate their emotions. Articulating painful feelings robs the feelings of their power, and learning how to manage them restores kids’ self-control.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">To encourage open expression, \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">listen\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, Damour advises. Be curious about your child’s state of mind. Ask your child to be as verbally precise as possible. Then, repeat back what your child says in her moment of sorrow or fear to demonstrate that you genuinely understand. Once they’ve expressed their heartache, try capturing their hurt in a one-sentence summary — like the editor who creates a headline for a story — and show empathy in return. “Listening attentively and then offering empathy shows them that they are doing exactly the right thing when they seek relief by finding a loving listener (that would be us!) and sharing what’s on their mind,” Damour writes. Above all, defy the temptation to jump in with creative solutions, as irresistible as that may seem.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">For the teenager who resists face-to-face conversations, try other ways of inviting communication. Some children will respond to gentle text messages from parents. Others will be more talkative if they’re strapped into the back seat of the car, spared the awkwardness of direct eye contact. And if parents want their teenagers to talk, they might have to be around more often so that it can happen \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/parenting/2023/02/21/teen-talks-night-parents/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">when the kids are conversational\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Though they can be mercurial and ornery, teenagers typically like their parents and feel safer when they know where the grown-ups are. Another way to invite emotional expression: Own up to your own mistakes. For example, if you’ve gossiped to a friend about something personal your child has shared with you, and he learns of it, correct your blunder the right way: Apologize for violating his confidence, explain why you did, take responsibility, vow never to blab again, offer to make amends and ask for forgiveness. Because emotional expression is so essential to adolescents’ (and adults’) well-being, parents need to safeguard their kids’ trust. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">After they’ve exhausted their efforts to spur expression, parents can help children learn to self-regulate. Suggest a distraction to interrupt unpleasant rumination. Offer them small comforts tailored to their preferences. \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/60543/what-parents-need-to-monitor-about-teens-sleep-beyond-the-hour-count\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Check in on their sleep habits\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and help them reclaim the eight to ten hours they need. When offering advice, tread lightly: Ask if it’s wanted and approach solutions jointly. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Some children experiencing protracted and irrational sadness and worry need more than a parent or guardian can provide. “I have so much empathy for parents who are trying to figure out if a meltdown is a sign of typical and expectable stress or a sign of a mental health concern,” Damour said. Adults would be wise to seek professional help if their adolescent’s feelings “don’t add up,” or they can’t manage them constructively, or they resort to risky coping strategies. But remember that zig-zagging, capacious feelings are not something to be avoided or feared. “Distress is part of life, and it certainly comes with the territory for teenagers,” she said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"As teens face a worsening mental health crisis, psychologist Lisa Damour advises parents on how to help young people learn to express and regulate emotions.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1682274038,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":13,"wordCount":1199},"headData":{"title":"What parents need to know about their teens’ mental health | KQED","description":"As teens face a worsening mental health crisis, psychologist Lisa Damour advises parents on how to help young people learn to express and regulate emotions.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/mindshift/61186/what-parents-need-to-know-about-their-teens-mental-health","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Years ago, when I was still coaching high school cross country, a teenage girl skipped up to me after practice with a warning: Don’t count on her to race all the time. If her nerves got too intense before races, she might have to bow out in advance. “I have anxiety!” she explained with a nervous grin.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright wp-image-61195 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/03/EMOTIONAL-LIVES-OF-TEENAGERS-Cover-flat-160x242.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"242\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/03/EMOTIONAL-LIVES-OF-TEENAGERS-Cover-flat-160x242.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/03/EMOTIONAL-LIVES-OF-TEENAGERS-Cover-flat.jpg 298w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">I recalled this episode while reading psychologist and author \u003ca href=\"https://drlisadamour.com/bio/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lisa Damour’s\u003c/a> refreshing new book, \u003ca href=\"https://drlisadamour.com/books/the-emotional-lives-of-teenagers/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">“The Emotional Lives of Teenagers: Raising Connected, Capable, and Compassionate Adolescents.”\u003c/a> Damour’s voice is forceful but comforting, and she uses it here to drive home her central point: Achieving mental health does not mean a life without unhappiness, anguish, anger, worry or self-doubt. Rather, these painful emotional states are an unavoidable feature of being human, especially for young people buzzing with hormones and adjusting to operatic moods prompted by recent rewiring of their brains. To best help their developing teenagers, parents should work to build their self-esteem and then guide them in learning how to express and manage these feelings. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_61194\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 160px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-61194 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/03/DAMOUR-Headshot-Small-File-by-Downie-Photo-scaled-e1678251227174-160x160.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"160\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/03/DAMOUR-Headshot-Small-File-by-Downie-Photo-scaled-e1678251227174-160x160.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/03/DAMOUR-Headshot-Small-File-by-Downie-Photo-scaled-e1678251227174-800x800.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/03/DAMOUR-Headshot-Small-File-by-Downie-Photo-scaled-e1678251227174-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/03/DAMOUR-Headshot-Small-File-by-Downie-Photo-scaled-e1678251227174-768x768.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/03/DAMOUR-Headshot-Small-File-by-Downie-Photo-scaled-e1678251227174-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/03/DAMOUR-Headshot-Small-File-by-Downie-Photo-scaled-e1678251227174.jpg 1708w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lisa Damour \u003ccite>(Downie Photo/Courtesy of Lisa Damour)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Damour explains how we got to the point of considering unhappiness an aberration from some imaginary blissful norm. To start, advances in antidepressant medications made them safer and more attractive to the masses; she earnestly acknowledges that psychotropic medications improve and sometimes save lives. But prescriptions for Prozac and its medicinal brethren are as ubiquitous today as those for hypertension and cholesterol, making ordinary disappointment seem like a problem in need of a chemical solution. The mental wellness industry, too, \u003ca href=\"https://globalwellnessinstitute.org/industry-research/the-global-wellness-economy-looking-beyond-covid/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">worth about $131 billion globally\u003c/a>, sells the idea that feeling rotten is avoidable (if you purchase just the right eucalyptus oil or bath bomb). Finally, because \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/61031/teen-girls-and-lgbtq-youth-plagued-by-violence-and-trauma-survey-says\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">adolescents are in fact gloomier today than they were just ten years ago\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, it’s harder for parents and kids to figure out what distinguishes a legitimate mental health crisis from everyday emotional discomfort.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">On this last point, Damour shares the findings of social psychologist Jonathan Haidt and psychology professor Jean Twenge who are \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/document/d/1diMvsMeRphUH7E6D1d_J7R6WbDdgnzFHDHPx9HXzR5o/edit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">sounding the alarm about youth mental health\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">: Just before the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, 44 percent of teenagers reported experiencing anxiety, up from 34 percent about ten years ago; 37 percent felt “persistently sad or hopeless”; 16 percent of teenagers said that they’d developed a suicide plan. Those self-reported findings were matched by increases in hospitalizations for self-harm and a surge in the number of completed suicides, mostly since 2012. New \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/healthyyouth/data/yrbs/yrbs_data_summary_and_trends.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">findings\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> released by the CDC in February revealed that \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/61031/teen-girls-and-lgbtq-youth-plagued-by-violence-and-trauma-survey-says\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">girls and LGBTQ+ youth especially are floundering\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Whether from what Haidt calls the rise in “\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/61026/10-things-to-know-about-how-social-media-affects-teens-brains\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">phone-based childhoods\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">,” creeping \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/60498/what-parents-should-know-about-eco-anxiety-and-its-impact-on-todays-teens\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">existential despair\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, or the effect of \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/60624/young-adults-are-struggling-with-their-mental-health-is-more-childhood-independence-the-answer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">too little free and unstructured time\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> — and likely some combination of all these and more — adolescents are struggling today in ways that they weren’t just a decade ago. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">What’s a conscientious parent to do? “One of the most important things we can do for teenagers is help them distinguish between emotions that are uncomfortable (and) emotions that are unmanageable,” Damour told me. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Mothers and fathers should help their young children build authentic self-esteem by celebrating kids’ actions and avoiding effusive praise. Encourage girls and boys to be of service to others, not only to interrupt their solipsistic mindset, but also to reinforce their ability to make a difference. Next, urge them to develop an interest that’s unrelated to school or college applications, like cooking or knitting. Indulging an intrinsic interest is protective of kids’ feelings of self-worth. Finally, get going on these pursuits before a child reaches middle school, when even the healthiest child might falter. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The best thing parents can do after this is help their children learn both to express and regulate their emotions. Articulating painful feelings robs the feelings of their power, and learning how to manage them restores kids’ self-control.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">To encourage open expression, \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">listen\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, Damour advises. Be curious about your child’s state of mind. Ask your child to be as verbally precise as possible. Then, repeat back what your child says in her moment of sorrow or fear to demonstrate that you genuinely understand. Once they’ve expressed their heartache, try capturing their hurt in a one-sentence summary — like the editor who creates a headline for a story — and show empathy in return. “Listening attentively and then offering empathy shows them that they are doing exactly the right thing when they seek relief by finding a loving listener (that would be us!) and sharing what’s on their mind,” Damour writes. Above all, defy the temptation to jump in with creative solutions, as irresistible as that may seem.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">For the teenager who resists face-to-face conversations, try other ways of inviting communication. Some children will respond to gentle text messages from parents. Others will be more talkative if they’re strapped into the back seat of the car, spared the awkwardness of direct eye contact. And if parents want their teenagers to talk, they might have to be around more often so that it can happen \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/parenting/2023/02/21/teen-talks-night-parents/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">when the kids are conversational\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Though they can be mercurial and ornery, teenagers typically like their parents and feel safer when they know where the grown-ups are. Another way to invite emotional expression: Own up to your own mistakes. For example, if you’ve gossiped to a friend about something personal your child has shared with you, and he learns of it, correct your blunder the right way: Apologize for violating his confidence, explain why you did, take responsibility, vow never to blab again, offer to make amends and ask for forgiveness. Because emotional expression is so essential to adolescents’ (and adults’) well-being, parents need to safeguard their kids’ trust. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">After they’ve exhausted their efforts to spur expression, parents can help children learn to self-regulate. Suggest a distraction to interrupt unpleasant rumination. Offer them small comforts tailored to their preferences. \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/60543/what-parents-need-to-monitor-about-teens-sleep-beyond-the-hour-count\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Check in on their sleep habits\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and help them reclaim the eight to ten hours they need. When offering advice, tread lightly: Ask if it’s wanted and approach solutions jointly. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Some children experiencing protracted and irrational sadness and worry need more than a parent or guardian can provide. “I have so much empathy for parents who are trying to figure out if a meltdown is a sign of typical and expectable stress or a sign of a mental health concern,” Damour said. Adults would be wise to seek professional help if their adolescent’s feelings “don’t add up,” or they can’t manage them constructively, or they resort to risky coping strategies. But remember that zig-zagging, capacious feelings are not something to be avoided or feared. “Distress is part of life, and it certainly comes with the territory for teenagers,” she said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/mindshift/61186/what-parents-need-to-know-about-their-teens-mental-health","authors":["4613"],"categories":["mindshift_21445","mindshift_21345","mindshift_21280"],"tags":["mindshift_21093","mindshift_20589","mindshift_21070","mindshift_21157","mindshift_20865","mindshift_20696","mindshift_20884","mindshift_1038"],"featImg":"mindshift_61188","label":"mindshift"},"mindshift_61126":{"type":"posts","id":"mindshift_61126","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"mindshift","id":"61126","score":null,"sort":[1677437594000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"how-to-help-young-people-limit-screen-time-and-improve-their-body-image","title":"How to help young people limit screen time — and improve their body image","publishDate":1677437594,"format":"standard","headTitle":"MindShift | KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"mindshift"},"content":"\u003cp>U.S. teens spend more than \u003ca href=\"https://www.commonsensemedia.org/sites/default/files/research/report/8-18-census-integrated-report-final-web_0.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">eight hours a day\u003c/a> on screens, and there's \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/02/16/1157180971/10-things-to-know-about-how-social-media-affects-teens-brains\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">growing concern\u003c/a> over how social media may affect their mental health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, \u003ca href=\"https://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/releases/ppm-ppm0000460.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a new study, published Thursday\u003c/a> by the American Psychological Association, validates what some parents have experienced when their teenagers cut back: They seem to feel better about themselves. I've seen this in my own kids when they return from summer camp, where phones are not allowed. They seem more at ease and less moody.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Social media can feel like a comparison trap, says study author \u003ca href=\"https://mccallmacbainscholars.org/bio/helen-thai/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Helen Thai\u003c/a>, a doctoral student in psychology at McGill University. Her research found that limiting screen time to about one hour a day helped anxious teens and young adults feel better about their body image and their appearance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her research arose from her own personal experiences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What I noticed when I was engaging in social media was that I couldn't help but compare myself,\" Thai says. Scrolling through posts from celebrities and influencers, as well as peers and people in her own social network, led to feelings of inferiority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They looked prettier, healthier, more fit,\" Thai says. She was well aware that social media posts often feature polished, airbrushed or filtered images that can alter appearances in an unrealistic way, but it still affected her negatively.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, Thai and a team of researchers decided to test whether slashing time on social media platforms including Instagram, TikTok and Snapchat would improve body image. They recruited a few hundred volunteers, aged 17-25, all of whom had experienced symptoms of anxiety or depression — which could make them vulnerable to the effects of social media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Half of the participants were asked to reduce their social media to 60 minutes a day for three weeks, Thai says. The other half continued to use social media with no restrictions, which averaged about three hours per day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The researchers gave the participants surveys at the beginning and end of the study, that included statements such as \"I'm pretty happy about the way I look,\" and \"I am satisfied with my weight.\" Among the group that cut social media use, the overall score on appearance improved from 2.95 to 3.15 on a 5-point scale. This may seem like a small change, but any shift in such a short period of time is striking, the authors say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This randomized controlled trial showed promising results that weight and appearance esteem can improve when people cut back on social media use,\" wrote psychologist \u003ca href=\"https://www.feinberg.northwestern.edu/faculty-profiles/az/profile.html?xid=41225\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Andrea Graham\u003c/a>, co-director of the\u003ca href=\"https://cbits.northwestern.edu/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Center for Behavioral Intervention at Northwestern University\u003c/a>, who reviewed the results for NPR.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Graham says it's encouraging that college students were willing to cut back screen time, even for three weeks. \"This provides some evidence that it may be feasible to engage this age group in reducing social media use,\" she says. Though this study included people who had symptoms of anxiety or depression, Graham says it's worth evaluating this approach with other groups, such as people with or at risk of eating disorders. It's also possible the benefits of cutting back could extend more broadly to anyone in this age group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Social media platforms are always evolving and \u003ca href=\"https://www.commonsensemedia.org/sites/default/files/research/report/8-18-census-integrated-report-final-web_0.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">attracting young users\u003c/a>. \"The digital world is here to stay,\" says Thai. So, she says, the question becomes, \"how do we adapt to this new world in a way where it wouldn't negatively impact us or control us?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are some ideas to try:\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>1. Curate your social media feed to limit content that makes you feel bad\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Instagram and TikTok are filled with idealized images of bodies. Filters can help people appear slimmer, more tan or wrinkle-free. \"The algorithm is pushing body-centric content to you because that's what sells,\" says Lexie Kite, co-author with her twin sister of \u003ca href=\"https://www.morethanabody.org/\">\u003cem>More Than a Body: Your Body is an Instrument, Not an Ornament\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. She says social media platforms can amplify harmful cultural messages — especially for girls and women — that they are most valued for their beauty and sex appeal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, it's up to the user to push back. \"Be incredibly mindful, as you scroll, of how each creator, each image, each account makes you feel,\" Kite says. If a post or story makes you feel uncomfortable or \u003cem>less-than\u003c/em>, make a choice to mute or unfollow. \"That's what I do,\" Kite says. \"You are the only one who can curate your feed.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>2. Schedule a one-day break from devices each week\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Artist and film-maker Tiffany Shlain says there's a power to unplugging one day a week. She turns off her devices every Friday evening, and takes a 24-hour break, that she now refers to as \"Tech Shabbat.\" She and her family started this tradition 13 years ago when her children were young.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's something about that full day off each week that really resets me and each member of my family in a deep way,\" she says. And the irony of disconnecting from social media: \"It's the day I feel most connected to my family.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She's the author of \u003ca href=\"https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.tiffanyshlain.com/24-6book__;!!Iwwt!WABsxQ05HTG7-7eHxrEVMQ3SUt0rlovbn8SkdmW6hMmkKVDY7hzMMjxwsxIblHnhLqcMMei3F40%24\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cem>24/6: Giving up Screens One Day a Week to Get More Time, Creativity, and Connection\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, and is currently working on a film about the adolescent brain. For teens, the weekend can result in fear of missing out – or FOMO. On social media, everyone can appear happy and popular, so it's hard not to compare. \"Comparison is the thief of joy,\" says Shlain — a quote she recently saw displayed by an artist friend. So Friday night can be a good time to turn it off.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>3. Turn off notifications and set limits on use of social media apps\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>If your intention is to limit social media to an hour a day, start by tracking your time on each app. The iPhone has a \u003ca href=\"https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/view-your-screen-time-summary-iph24dcd4fb8/ios\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">screen time tracker\u003c/a> that lets you know how much time you spend on apps and websites, as well as how often you pick up your device.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Smartphones allow you to set limits for individual apps to help with managing use,\" Thai says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also, you can turn off your social media notifications so they don't show up on your home screen. And set a daily downtime in your device settings. Thai says it comes down to goal setting, and then tracking your behavior to help keep yourself accountable.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>4. Use the time you were giving to social media to invest in real-life activities instead\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>This may sound obvious, but seeing your friends on social media is not the same as spending time with them. So, make some plans to connect with friends in real life. The same goes for self-care. Thai says she's been taking a break from social media, which began as a New Year's resolution. \"I noticed less screen time meant more time for me to fit in other aspects of my life that I wanted to keep more consistent, like physical activity, reading, [and] listening to podcasts,\" says Thai.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Northwestern University's Graham has the same advice. Doing something fun can help improve your mental health, \"so cutting back on social media use \u003cem>and\u003c/em> doing something enjoyable may lead to a bonus benefit,\" Graham says.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>5. Connect with people who share your interests and values\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The world is filled with interesting people doing remarkable things. Social media can be a more positive place for teens or adults when you connect with people who share your interests and post inspiring ideas or stories. Kite says she unfollows people who make her feel uncomfortable, \"and I replace them with activists.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She's curated her feed to be a blend of humor and advocacy – connecting with like-minded people \"who are making fun of the sexist, objectifying media landscape we all live in,\" she says. \"It makes social media fun to use.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kite likes content creators who are willing to show up on screen without a filter \"I love seeing that in my social media feed,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2023 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=How+to+help+young+people+limit+screen+time+%E2%80%94+and+feel+better+about+how+they+look&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"New research found teens and young adults who even briefly cut time on social media gained self-esteem. Try these 5 tips to help them — and yourself — improve screen-life balance.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1677510164,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":28,"wordCount":1367},"headData":{"title":"How to help young people limit screen time — and improve their body image | KQED","description":"New research found teens and young adults who even briefly cut time on social media gained self-esteem.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"nprImageCredit":"LA Johnson","nprByline":"Allison Aubrey","nprImageAgency":"NPR","nprStoryId":"1159099629","nprApiLink":"http://api.npr.org/query?id=1159099629&apiKey=MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004","nprHtmlLink":"https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/02/26/1159099629/teens-social-media-body-image?ft=nprml&f=1159099629","nprRetrievedStory":"1","nprPubDate":"Mon, 27 Feb 2023 08:12:00 -0500","nprStoryDate":"Sun, 26 Feb 2023 05:01:10 -0500","nprLastModifiedDate":"Mon, 27 Feb 2023 05:42:42 -0500","nprAudio":"https://ondemand.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/me/2023/02/20230227_me_how_to_help_young_people_limit_screen_time_and_feel_better_about_how_they_look.mp3?orgId=1&topicId=1128&d=265&p=3&story=1159099629&ft=nprml&f=1159099629","nprAudioM3u":"http://api.npr.org/m3u/11159630299-46266f.m3u?orgId=1&topicId=1128&d=265&p=3&story=1159099629&ft=nprml&f=1159099629","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","articleAge":"0","path":"/mindshift/61126/how-to-help-young-people-limit-screen-time-and-improve-their-body-image","audioUrl":"https://ondemand.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/me/2023/02/20230227_me_how_to_help_young_people_limit_screen_time_and_feel_better_about_how_they_look.mp3?orgId=1&topicId=1128&d=265&p=3&story=1159099629&ft=nprml&f=1159099629","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>U.S. teens spend more than \u003ca href=\"https://www.commonsensemedia.org/sites/default/files/research/report/8-18-census-integrated-report-final-web_0.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">eight hours a day\u003c/a> on screens, and there's \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/02/16/1157180971/10-things-to-know-about-how-social-media-affects-teens-brains\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">growing concern\u003c/a> over how social media may affect their mental health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, \u003ca href=\"https://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/releases/ppm-ppm0000460.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a new study, published Thursday\u003c/a> by the American Psychological Association, validates what some parents have experienced when their teenagers cut back: They seem to feel better about themselves. I've seen this in my own kids when they return from summer camp, where phones are not allowed. They seem more at ease and less moody.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Social media can feel like a comparison trap, says study author \u003ca href=\"https://mccallmacbainscholars.org/bio/helen-thai/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Helen Thai\u003c/a>, a doctoral student in psychology at McGill University. Her research found that limiting screen time to about one hour a day helped anxious teens and young adults feel better about their body image and their appearance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her research arose from her own personal experiences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What I noticed when I was engaging in social media was that I couldn't help but compare myself,\" Thai says. Scrolling through posts from celebrities and influencers, as well as peers and people in her own social network, led to feelings of inferiority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They looked prettier, healthier, more fit,\" Thai says. She was well aware that social media posts often feature polished, airbrushed or filtered images that can alter appearances in an unrealistic way, but it still affected her negatively.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, Thai and a team of researchers decided to test whether slashing time on social media platforms including Instagram, TikTok and Snapchat would improve body image. They recruited a few hundred volunteers, aged 17-25, all of whom had experienced symptoms of anxiety or depression — which could make them vulnerable to the effects of social media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Half of the participants were asked to reduce their social media to 60 minutes a day for three weeks, Thai says. The other half continued to use social media with no restrictions, which averaged about three hours per day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The researchers gave the participants surveys at the beginning and end of the study, that included statements such as \"I'm pretty happy about the way I look,\" and \"I am satisfied with my weight.\" Among the group that cut social media use, the overall score on appearance improved from 2.95 to 3.15 on a 5-point scale. This may seem like a small change, but any shift in such a short period of time is striking, the authors say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This randomized controlled trial showed promising results that weight and appearance esteem can improve when people cut back on social media use,\" wrote psychologist \u003ca href=\"https://www.feinberg.northwestern.edu/faculty-profiles/az/profile.html?xid=41225\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Andrea Graham\u003c/a>, co-director of the\u003ca href=\"https://cbits.northwestern.edu/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Center for Behavioral Intervention at Northwestern University\u003c/a>, who reviewed the results for NPR.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Graham says it's encouraging that college students were willing to cut back screen time, even for three weeks. \"This provides some evidence that it may be feasible to engage this age group in reducing social media use,\" she says. Though this study included people who had symptoms of anxiety or depression, Graham says it's worth evaluating this approach with other groups, such as people with or at risk of eating disorders. It's also possible the benefits of cutting back could extend more broadly to anyone in this age group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Social media platforms are always evolving and \u003ca href=\"https://www.commonsensemedia.org/sites/default/files/research/report/8-18-census-integrated-report-final-web_0.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">attracting young users\u003c/a>. \"The digital world is here to stay,\" says Thai. So, she says, the question becomes, \"how do we adapt to this new world in a way where it wouldn't negatively impact us or control us?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are some ideas to try:\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>1. Curate your social media feed to limit content that makes you feel bad\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Instagram and TikTok are filled with idealized images of bodies. Filters can help people appear slimmer, more tan or wrinkle-free. \"The algorithm is pushing body-centric content to you because that's what sells,\" says Lexie Kite, co-author with her twin sister of \u003ca href=\"https://www.morethanabody.org/\">\u003cem>More Than a Body: Your Body is an Instrument, Not an Ornament\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. She says social media platforms can amplify harmful cultural messages — especially for girls and women — that they are most valued for their beauty and sex appeal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, it's up to the user to push back. \"Be incredibly mindful, as you scroll, of how each creator, each image, each account makes you feel,\" Kite says. If a post or story makes you feel uncomfortable or \u003cem>less-than\u003c/em>, make a choice to mute or unfollow. \"That's what I do,\" Kite says. \"You are the only one who can curate your feed.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>2. Schedule a one-day break from devices each week\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Artist and film-maker Tiffany Shlain says there's a power to unplugging one day a week. She turns off her devices every Friday evening, and takes a 24-hour break, that she now refers to as \"Tech Shabbat.\" She and her family started this tradition 13 years ago when her children were young.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's something about that full day off each week that really resets me and each member of my family in a deep way,\" she says. And the irony of disconnecting from social media: \"It's the day I feel most connected to my family.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She's the author of \u003ca href=\"https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.tiffanyshlain.com/24-6book__;!!Iwwt!WABsxQ05HTG7-7eHxrEVMQ3SUt0rlovbn8SkdmW6hMmkKVDY7hzMMjxwsxIblHnhLqcMMei3F40%24\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cem>24/6: Giving up Screens One Day a Week to Get More Time, Creativity, and Connection\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, and is currently working on a film about the adolescent brain. For teens, the weekend can result in fear of missing out – or FOMO. On social media, everyone can appear happy and popular, so it's hard not to compare. \"Comparison is the thief of joy,\" says Shlain — a quote she recently saw displayed by an artist friend. So Friday night can be a good time to turn it off.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>3. Turn off notifications and set limits on use of social media apps\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>If your intention is to limit social media to an hour a day, start by tracking your time on each app. The iPhone has a \u003ca href=\"https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/view-your-screen-time-summary-iph24dcd4fb8/ios\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">screen time tracker\u003c/a> that lets you know how much time you spend on apps and websites, as well as how often you pick up your device.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Smartphones allow you to set limits for individual apps to help with managing use,\" Thai says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also, you can turn off your social media notifications so they don't show up on your home screen. And set a daily downtime in your device settings. Thai says it comes down to goal setting, and then tracking your behavior to help keep yourself accountable.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>4. Use the time you were giving to social media to invest in real-life activities instead\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>This may sound obvious, but seeing your friends on social media is not the same as spending time with them. So, make some plans to connect with friends in real life. The same goes for self-care. Thai says she's been taking a break from social media, which began as a New Year's resolution. \"I noticed less screen time meant more time for me to fit in other aspects of my life that I wanted to keep more consistent, like physical activity, reading, [and] listening to podcasts,\" says Thai.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Northwestern University's Graham has the same advice. Doing something fun can help improve your mental health, \"so cutting back on social media use \u003cem>and\u003c/em> doing something enjoyable may lead to a bonus benefit,\" Graham says.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>5. Connect with people who share your interests and values\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The world is filled with interesting people doing remarkable things. Social media can be a more positive place for teens or adults when you connect with people who share your interests and post inspiring ideas or stories. Kite says she unfollows people who make her feel uncomfortable, \"and I replace them with activists.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She's curated her feed to be a blend of humor and advocacy – connecting with like-minded people \"who are making fun of the sexist, objectifying media landscape we all live in,\" she says. \"It makes social media fun to use.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kite likes content creators who are willing to show up on screen without a filter \"I love seeing that in my social media feed,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2023 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=How+to+help+young+people+limit+screen+time+%E2%80%94+and+feel+better+about+how+they+look&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/mindshift/61126/how-to-help-young-people-limit-screen-time-and-improve-their-body-image","authors":["byline_mindshift_61126"],"categories":["mindshift_21445","mindshift_21280"],"tags":["mindshift_21093","mindshift_20811","mindshift_21561","mindshift_21473","mindshift_20865","mindshift_20816","mindshift_21562","mindshift_30","mindshift_21159","mindshift_1038"],"featImg":"mindshift_61127","label":"mindshift"},"mindshift_60498":{"type":"posts","id":"mindshift_60498","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"mindshift","id":"60498","score":null,"sort":[1677063618000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"what-parents-should-know-about-eco-anxiety-and-its-impact-on-todays-teens","title":"What parents should know about eco-anxiety and its impact on today’s teens","publishDate":1677063618,"format":"standard","headTitle":"What parents should know about eco-anxiety and its impact on today’s teens | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"mindshift"},"content":"\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cem>Taken from \u003ca href=\"https://www.onegreenthing.org/book\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">“One Green Thing”\u003c/a> by Heather White. Copyright © 2022 by Heather White. Used by permission of \u003ca href=\"http://www.harpercollinsfocus.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Harper Horizon\u003c/a>, a division of HarperCollins Focus, \u003cspan class=\"s1\">LLC. \u003c/span>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Mom and Dad, we are running out of time. I can’t vote. You can’t wait for us to clean up your mess and fix it. We need you to act now,” my then fourteen-year-old daughter Cady pleaded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was September 2019. We were talking to the girls about the upcoming climate strike and student walkout inspired by young Swedish activist Greta Thunberg. The weather report called for heavy rain, so I offered to pick up Cady and drive her to the protest site after she left the high school. This parental gesture made perfect sense to me since she had to carry her trumpet and her freshman backpack, which weighed a ton. Besides, the protest starting point was a mile away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https://harpercollins-christian.imgix.net/covers/9780785291305.jpg?auto=format&w=260\" alt=\"One Green Thing\" width=\"260\" height=\"385\">Cady rolled her eyes and patiently explained to me, her environmental lawyer mother, that having a parent drive her to a climate walkout defeated its purpose. She said she was sick of all the praise for Gen Z, that the planet was burning, and what were the Gen Xers and Boomers going to do about it? And then came her quiet tears. This response was the result of eco-anxiety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ten years earlier, I’d heard about eco-anxiety from my colleagues Kevin Coyle and Dr. Lise Van Susteren of the National Wildlife Federation. They wrote a paper about the mental health impacts of climate change, but as the mom of two young kids, dealing with the issue seemed far off. After my conversation with Cady, when I asked other Gen X moms about eco-anxiety, they immediately understood. Although we grew up on John Hughes films, were “latchkey” kids, and stressed about Cold War nuclear annihilation, Gen Z is different. One parent told me that her twenty-year-old son asked what the wildfires were like in Northern California when he was little; he had no idea that “fire season” is a recent phenomenon there. One friend’s ten-year-old loves to draw Godzilla. He explained that the mythic creature symbolizes our relationship to nature, then matter-of-factly told her it’s too late to save the planet. Teen climate leader Jamie Margolin, who suffers from clinical anxiety, told the New York Times in 2020 that climate change is like Beyoncé. She says there wasn’t a time in her life that she didn’t know about either. And to be clear, eco-anxiety isn’t something that only rich, privileged white folks experience. In poll after poll, BIPOC communities are more alarmed by climate change than other demographics and understand that communities of color are typically most impacted by climate disruption.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cady’s tears at the dinner table marked the moment this issue of eco-anxiety and intergenerational action hit home for me. I could pick up her backpack and trumpet, but how would I encourage more people to address the overwhelming problem of the climate crisis?\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>“Eco-Anxiety” Defined: It’s Global Warming and More\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The term eco-anxiety, also called “climate anxiety,” is a relatively new trend that many doctors and psychologists are witnessing. In 2017, the American Psychological Association recognized eco-anxiety as a “chronic fear of environmental doom.” The Climate Psychology Alliance formed to train mental health professionals to identify and treat eco-anxiety. A recent survey of child psychiatrists in the United Kingdom discovered that 50 percent had clients who suffered from it. In a September 2021 international survey, one in four young people (ages sixteen to twenty-five) said that they likely won’t have children because of their worry about the climate crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>From FOMO to FODO\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Late one night during the pandemic, I told Cady to put down her phone and added that she wouldn’t miss out on anything. It was an (online) school night. My anxious teen handed over her phone then remarked, “Mom, I’m not on social media because of FOMO [the fear of missing out]. My fear is the impermanence of human existence.” I gulped. She’d seen in the news that her birthplace, Medford, Oregon, and an estimated 500,000 people in the state were on evacuation notice because of raging forest fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My daughter and I joked (or not) about a new acronym for Gen Z’s constant screen use during the crises of 2020: it’s FODO, the “fear of [humans] dying out.” This is reality for Generation Z. They feel the sands through the hourglass, and not in a good way.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>The Eco-Anxiety Trifecta: Anxiety, \u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>Loneliness, and Environmental Stress\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For Gen Z, “eco-anxiety” has three aspects. First, children are suffering from generalized anxiety in greater numbers. Each child experiences anxiety differently, but the statistics are alarming. The National Institutes of Health indicates that 30 percent of American teens suffer from anxiety. Rates of teen anxiety, depression, and suicide have dramatically increased since 2011.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Second, Gen Z is the loneliest generation. More screen time and less in-person interaction mean a sense of isolation for them, even before the pandemic. In the 2018 Cigna Loneliness Index, Gen Z expressed “feeling like people around them are not really with them (69 percent), feeling shy (69 percent), and feeling like no one really knows them well (68 percent).” Our kids are lonelier than the elderly. In one survey, eight in ten Gen Zers experienced loneliness compared to five in ten Baby Boomers. Chronic loneliness can be as damaging to a person’s health as smoking fifteen cigarettes a day, which prompted the United Kingdom to appoint a loneliness minister in 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Third is what Cady and I termed FODO, the hyperawareness of the climate crisis. Gen Z is asking what the future will look like, where they will live, and what their experience will be like on this planet. In a 2020 survey by the US Conference on Mayors, 80 percent of Gen Z agrees that “climate change is a major threat to life on earth”; one in four have taken direct action on climate change, and by three to one, Gen Z believes “the climate crisis warrants bold action.” They know that we must act fast. The coronavirus pandemic cracked open the truth of the intersectionality of public health, systemic racism, the economy, and the environment. Now the concept of eco-anxiety encompasses a generalized anxiety about the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In today’s culture we go to extraordinary lengths to help children avoid discomfort (like offering to pick them up in the rain and drive them to a climate protest) to ease our own anxiety about our children’s pain. Yet recent research shows that kids with clinical anxiety have to be part of the solution in dealing with their stress. Fixing it for them doesn’t help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like my daughters, the majority of Gen Zers are worried about climate change. A friend told me that of course my kids have eco-anxiety— it’s because they are my kids. I talk, write, and think about the climate crisis, so my kids would naturally be more aware of the issues. I encouraged her to ask her sons about it at dinner that night, and they said, “We think about climate change all the time, Mom.” They just hadn’t talked about it as a family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This generational stress forces us all to think hard about what we’re leaving our children, but this situation isn’t new. Consider the anxiety of young people during World War I, World War II, Vietnam, and the nuclear arms race of the Cold War. That said, it’s time for some serious self-reflection on how we can implement cathedral thinking and build a healthier, more sustainable world as we protect the planet and future generations. Older generations need to share their experiences so Generation Z can see examples of hope and progress. And we need to take action to light the path forward. Yes, action can abate anxiety. Despite the enormity of the issue, we start small and then build momentum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-60501 alignleft\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2022/12/gaSIpOe8-800x1120.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"184\" height=\"258\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2022/12/gaSIpOe8-800x1120.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2022/12/gaSIpOe8-1020x1428.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2022/12/gaSIpOe8-160x224.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2022/12/gaSIpOe8-768x1075.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2022/12/gaSIpOe8-1097x1536.jpg 1097w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2022/12/gaSIpOe8.jpg 1463w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 184px) 100vw, 184px\">\u003ca href=\"https://mobile.twitter.com/heatherwhiteofc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Heather White\u003c/a> is the Founder of One Green Thing and a nationally recognized conservation and environmental policy expert with more than 20 years of experience leading and advising non-profit organizations, including increasing organizational performance and directing innovative advocacy campaigns.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Heather’s expertise has been featured in CBS This Morning, PBS News Hour, MSNBC, The Atlantic, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and many more internationally recognized media outlets. She is on the board of the Plastic Pollution Coalition, the Bozeman Symphony, Catawba College Center for the Environment, the MADE SAFE Advisory Council, and the Women in Sustainability Leadership Awards Alumnae Group. In 2015, Heather was named one of the “Top 20 Women Leaders in Sustainability” by Green Building & Design magazine and “100 Women to Watch in Wellness” by MindBodyGreen.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Parents can’t fix their teens' eco-anxiety, but there are ways they can understand and help. Heather White’s book “One Green Thing” offers advice on how to listen and talk to young people about their climate anxiety. 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Heather White’s book “One Green Thing” about the impact of climate change and environmental stress on Gen Z shares how parents can help."},"excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/mindshift/60498/what-parents-should-know-about-eco-anxiety-and-its-impact-on-todays-teens","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cem>Taken from \u003ca href=\"https://www.onegreenthing.org/book\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">“One Green Thing”\u003c/a> by Heather White. Copyright © 2022 by Heather White. Used by permission of \u003ca href=\"http://www.harpercollinsfocus.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Harper Horizon\u003c/a>, a division of HarperCollins Focus, \u003cspan class=\"s1\">LLC. \u003c/span>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Mom and Dad, we are running out of time. I can’t vote. You can’t wait for us to clean up your mess and fix it. We need you to act now,” my then fourteen-year-old daughter Cady pleaded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was September 2019. We were talking to the girls about the upcoming climate strike and student walkout inspired by young Swedish activist Greta Thunberg. The weather report called for heavy rain, so I offered to pick up Cady and drive her to the protest site after she left the high school. This parental gesture made perfect sense to me since she had to carry her trumpet and her freshman backpack, which weighed a ton. Besides, the protest starting point was a mile away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https://harpercollins-christian.imgix.net/covers/9780785291305.jpg?auto=format&w=260\" alt=\"One Green Thing\" width=\"260\" height=\"385\">Cady rolled her eyes and patiently explained to me, her environmental lawyer mother, that having a parent drive her to a climate walkout defeated its purpose. She said she was sick of all the praise for Gen Z, that the planet was burning, and what were the Gen Xers and Boomers going to do about it? And then came her quiet tears. This response was the result of eco-anxiety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ten years earlier, I’d heard about eco-anxiety from my colleagues Kevin Coyle and Dr. Lise Van Susteren of the National Wildlife Federation. They wrote a paper about the mental health impacts of climate change, but as the mom of two young kids, dealing with the issue seemed far off. After my conversation with Cady, when I asked other Gen X moms about eco-anxiety, they immediately understood. Although we grew up on John Hughes films, were “latchkey” kids, and stressed about Cold War nuclear annihilation, Gen Z is different. One parent told me that her twenty-year-old son asked what the wildfires were like in Northern California when he was little; he had no idea that “fire season” is a recent phenomenon there. One friend’s ten-year-old loves to draw Godzilla. He explained that the mythic creature symbolizes our relationship to nature, then matter-of-factly told her it’s too late to save the planet. Teen climate leader Jamie Margolin, who suffers from clinical anxiety, told the New York Times in 2020 that climate change is like Beyoncé. She says there wasn’t a time in her life that she didn’t know about either. And to be clear, eco-anxiety isn’t something that only rich, privileged white folks experience. In poll after poll, BIPOC communities are more alarmed by climate change than other demographics and understand that communities of color are typically most impacted by climate disruption.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cady’s tears at the dinner table marked the moment this issue of eco-anxiety and intergenerational action hit home for me. I could pick up her backpack and trumpet, but how would I encourage more people to address the overwhelming problem of the climate crisis?\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>“Eco-Anxiety” Defined: It’s Global Warming and More\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The term eco-anxiety, also called “climate anxiety,” is a relatively new trend that many doctors and psychologists are witnessing. In 2017, the American Psychological Association recognized eco-anxiety as a “chronic fear of environmental doom.” The Climate Psychology Alliance formed to train mental health professionals to identify and treat eco-anxiety. A recent survey of child psychiatrists in the United Kingdom discovered that 50 percent had clients who suffered from it. In a September 2021 international survey, one in four young people (ages sixteen to twenty-five) said that they likely won’t have children because of their worry about the climate crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>From FOMO to FODO\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Late one night during the pandemic, I told Cady to put down her phone and added that she wouldn’t miss out on anything. It was an (online) school night. My anxious teen handed over her phone then remarked, “Mom, I’m not on social media because of FOMO [the fear of missing out]. My fear is the impermanence of human existence.” I gulped. She’d seen in the news that her birthplace, Medford, Oregon, and an estimated 500,000 people in the state were on evacuation notice because of raging forest fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My daughter and I joked (or not) about a new acronym for Gen Z’s constant screen use during the crises of 2020: it’s FODO, the “fear of [humans] dying out.” This is reality for Generation Z. They feel the sands through the hourglass, and not in a good way.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>The Eco-Anxiety Trifecta: Anxiety, \u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>Loneliness, and Environmental Stress\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For Gen Z, “eco-anxiety” has three aspects. First, children are suffering from generalized anxiety in greater numbers. Each child experiences anxiety differently, but the statistics are alarming. The National Institutes of Health indicates that 30 percent of American teens suffer from anxiety. Rates of teen anxiety, depression, and suicide have dramatically increased since 2011.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Second, Gen Z is the loneliest generation. More screen time and less in-person interaction mean a sense of isolation for them, even before the pandemic. In the 2018 Cigna Loneliness Index, Gen Z expressed “feeling like people around them are not really with them (69 percent), feeling shy (69 percent), and feeling like no one really knows them well (68 percent).” Our kids are lonelier than the elderly. In one survey, eight in ten Gen Zers experienced loneliness compared to five in ten Baby Boomers. Chronic loneliness can be as damaging to a person’s health as smoking fifteen cigarettes a day, which prompted the United Kingdom to appoint a loneliness minister in 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Third is what Cady and I termed FODO, the hyperawareness of the climate crisis. Gen Z is asking what the future will look like, where they will live, and what their experience will be like on this planet. In a 2020 survey by the US Conference on Mayors, 80 percent of Gen Z agrees that “climate change is a major threat to life on earth”; one in four have taken direct action on climate change, and by three to one, Gen Z believes “the climate crisis warrants bold action.” They know that we must act fast. The coronavirus pandemic cracked open the truth of the intersectionality of public health, systemic racism, the economy, and the environment. Now the concept of eco-anxiety encompasses a generalized anxiety about the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In today’s culture we go to extraordinary lengths to help children avoid discomfort (like offering to pick them up in the rain and drive them to a climate protest) to ease our own anxiety about our children’s pain. Yet recent research shows that kids with clinical anxiety have to be part of the solution in dealing with their stress. Fixing it for them doesn’t help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like my daughters, the majority of Gen Zers are worried about climate change. A friend told me that of course my kids have eco-anxiety— it’s because they are my kids. I talk, write, and think about the climate crisis, so my kids would naturally be more aware of the issues. I encouraged her to ask her sons about it at dinner that night, and they said, “We think about climate change all the time, Mom.” They just hadn’t talked about it as a family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This generational stress forces us all to think hard about what we’re leaving our children, but this situation isn’t new. Consider the anxiety of young people during World War I, World War II, Vietnam, and the nuclear arms race of the Cold War. That said, it’s time for some serious self-reflection on how we can implement cathedral thinking and build a healthier, more sustainable world as we protect the planet and future generations. Older generations need to share their experiences so Generation Z can see examples of hope and progress. And we need to take action to light the path forward. Yes, action can abate anxiety. Despite the enormity of the issue, we start small and then build momentum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-60501 alignleft\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2022/12/gaSIpOe8-800x1120.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"184\" height=\"258\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2022/12/gaSIpOe8-800x1120.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2022/12/gaSIpOe8-1020x1428.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2022/12/gaSIpOe8-160x224.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2022/12/gaSIpOe8-768x1075.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2022/12/gaSIpOe8-1097x1536.jpg 1097w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2022/12/gaSIpOe8.jpg 1463w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 184px) 100vw, 184px\">\u003ca href=\"https://mobile.twitter.com/heatherwhiteofc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Heather White\u003c/a> is the Founder of One Green Thing and a nationally recognized conservation and environmental policy expert with more than 20 years of experience leading and advising non-profit organizations, including increasing organizational performance and directing innovative advocacy campaigns.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Heather’s expertise has been featured in CBS This Morning, PBS News Hour, MSNBC, The Atlantic, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and many more internationally recognized media outlets. She is on the board of the Plastic Pollution Coalition, the Bozeman Symphony, Catawba College Center for the Environment, the MADE SAFE Advisory Council, and the Women in Sustainability Leadership Awards Alumnae Group. In 2015, Heather was named one of the “Top 20 Women Leaders in Sustainability” by Green Building & Design magazine and “100 Women to Watch in Wellness” by MindBodyGreen.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/mindshift/60498/what-parents-should-know-about-eco-anxiety-and-its-impact-on-todays-teens","authors":["4354"],"categories":["mindshift_21445","mindshift_21491","mindshift_21508","mindshift_21280","mindshift_21385"],"tags":["mindshift_21093","mindshift_20589","mindshift_21124","mindshift_21463","mindshift_21059","mindshift_20865","mindshift_20568","mindshift_290","mindshift_20925","mindshift_21355","mindshift_1038"],"featImg":"mindshift_60500","label":"mindshift"},"mindshift_61031":{"type":"posts","id":"mindshift_61031","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"mindshift","id":"61031","score":null,"sort":[1676388927000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"teen-girls-and-lgbtq-youth-plagued-by-violence-and-trauma-survey-says","title":"Teen girls and LGBTQ+ youth plagued by violence and trauma, survey says","publishDate":1676388927,"format":"standard","headTitle":"MindShift | KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"mindshift"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cem>If you or someone you know may be considering suicide, contact the \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://988lifeline.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cem>988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> by dialing 9-8-8, or the \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"http://www.crisistextline.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cem>Crisis Text Line\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> by texting HOME to 741741.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>Adolescent girls across the country are facing record levels of violence, sadness and despair, according to new survey data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. And teens who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, questioning and other non-heterosexual identities also experience high levels of violence and distress, the survey found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There is no question from this data [that] young people are telling us that they are in crisis,\" says \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/ethierka\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kathleen Ethier\u003c/a>, director of the CDC's Division of Adolescent and School Health. \"And there is this growing wave of violence and trauma that's affecting young people, especially teen girls and LGBTQ+ youth.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every two years, the CDC \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/healthyyouth/data/yrbs/yrbs_data_summary_and_trends.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">surveys 9th through 12th graders across the country\u003c/a> about a range of health behaviors and experiences for a report titled, the Youth Risk Behavior Survey. On Monday, it released the results from the most recent survey conducted in 2021, along with the trends over the past decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While 11% of all teens reported facing sexual violence in the past year, 18% of girls and 22% of LGBTQ+ youth reported the same. Among racial and ethnic groups, American Indian or Alaska Native teens were the most likely to have faced sexual violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And more than one in ten girls had been forced to have sex in their lifetime, says Ethier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That is just an overwhelming finding,\" she says. \"So, not surprisingly, we're also seeing that almost 60% of teen girls had depressive symptoms in the past year, which is the highest level in a decade.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly one in three girls also reported seriously considering suicide in the past year – a 60% rise from a decade ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report also found that 52% of teens identifying as LGBTQ+ experienced poor mental health in the past year, with 1 in 5 saying they had attempted suicide during that period of time. Among racial and ethnic groups Native American teens were the most likely to have attempted suicide in the year before, followed by Black youth, at 14%.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Trauma plays a role\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>There's often a history of trauma among teens experiencing a mental health crisis, says\u003ca href=\"https://faculty.medicine.hofstra.edu/7557-vera-feuer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Dr. Vera Feuer\u003c/a>, a child and adolescent psychiatrist at Northwell Health in Long Island, NY, who did not participate in the study.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Most of the kids presenting to psychiatric emergency rooms and a lot of the kids presenting with suicidal thoughts do have a background that includes trauma,\" she says, and that trauma often stems from, \"some sort of victimization, sexual victimization, as well as bullying, cyber bullying.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, there are a whole host of social and environmental factors driving the behaviors and mental health problems among teens, especially teen girls, says \u003ca href=\"https://rogersbh.org/staff/stephanie-eken\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dr. Stephanie Eken\u003c/a>, a pediatrician and child and adolescent psychiatrist at \u003ca href=\"https://rogersbh.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rogers Behavioral Health\u003c/a> in Wisconsin, which also has a program for adolescent girls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of those factors, she says, is early puberty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Girls \"are starting puberty early, and we know that hormones certainly start to differentiate issues for females versus males,\" says Eken. \"When we look at research studies, girls, when they start to hit puberty, start to have increasing rates of depression and anxiety. So there are the hormonal factors that we think could play a role.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Social media also plays a major role, she adds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We see that for girls and their social networks, even when they're socializing, they are not socializing in person,\" she says. \"They are socializing through their phone or through some type of device rather than in-person.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, she adds, adolescents in general, and girls in particular need in-person social contact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lack of it, she adds, has created higher levels of loneliness among teens, even before the pandemic. And loneliness is a well known risk factor for suicide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Social media also exposes girls to all kinds of negative social pressures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Body type expectations and the images that they're shown with the flood of information that we have available to us has detrimental effects,\" says Eken. \"And they're being exposed to them earlier and earlier in their lives when their brains are not prepared to deal with this information and know what to do with it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's also why there's been a dramatic rise in teen girls with eating disorders in recent years, say Eken and Feuer.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Schools can be part of the solution\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Schools are key, the report suggests, to help teens facing these behavioral and mental health challenges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Schools are on the front lines of dealing with the mental health crisis that we're experiencing in this country,\" says the CDC's Ethier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She points to a number of things that schools can do to prevent these issues and also to support vulnerable students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Things like making sure teachers are well trained in dealing with the mental health issues that are arising in their classrooms, making sure that there are programs in place to get young people out into their communities to provide service and bringing important community members into schools to meet, to provide mentorship,\" Ethier says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report also points to the need to have school environments where students feel socially connected, not just to their peers, but also to caring adults.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The role of other trusted adults at school is a big part of that,\" says Feuer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A proven way to protect vulnerable students against despair and suicide is to help them feel like they belong – at school, at home, in their communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We know from suicide research that the sense of belongingness and feeling connected is a really, really important factor to consider,\" adds Feuer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2023 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Teen+girls+and+LGBTQ%2B+youth+plagued+by+violence+and+trauma%2C+survey+says&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Nearly one in three girls reported seriously considering suicide in the past year – a 60% rise from a decade ago, according to the CDC survey data.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1676663168,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":31,"wordCount":980},"headData":{"title":"Teen girls and LGBTQ+ youth plagued by violence and trauma, survey says | KQED","description":"Nearly 1 in 3 girls reported seriously considering suicide in the past year – a 60% rise from a decade ago, according to the CDC survey data.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"nprImageCredit":"Radu Bighian","nprByline":"Rhitu Chatterjee","nprImageAgency":"EyeEm via Getty Images","nprStoryId":"1156663966","nprApiLink":"http://api.npr.org/query?id=1156663966&apiKey=MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004","nprHtmlLink":"https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/02/13/1156663966/teen-girls-and-lgbtq-youth-plagued-by-violence-and-trauma-survey-says?ft=nprml&f=1156663966","nprRetrievedStory":"1","nprPubDate":"Mon, 13 Feb 2023 19:43:00 -0500","nprStoryDate":"Mon, 13 Feb 2023 19:36:56 -0500","nprLastModifiedDate":"Mon, 13 Feb 2023 19:43:45 -0500","nprAudio":"https://ondemand.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/atc/2023/02/20230213_atc_teen_girls_in_growing_crisis.mp3?orgId=1&topicId=1128&d=238&story=1156663966&ft=nprml&f=1156663966","nprAudioM3u":"http://api.npr.org/m3u/11156690774-af7ff1.m3u?orgId=1&topicId=1128&d=238&story=1156663966&ft=nprml&f=1156663966","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","articleAge":"0","path":"/mindshift/61031/teen-girls-and-lgbtq-youth-plagued-by-violence-and-trauma-survey-says","audioUrl":"https://ondemand.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/atc/2023/02/20230213_atc_teen_girls_in_growing_crisis.mp3?orgId=1&topicId=1128&d=238&story=1156663966&ft=nprml&f=1156663966","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>If you or someone you know may be considering suicide, contact the \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://988lifeline.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cem>988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> by dialing 9-8-8, or the \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"http://www.crisistextline.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cem>Crisis Text Line\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> by texting HOME to 741741.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>Adolescent girls across the country are facing record levels of violence, sadness and despair, according to new survey data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. And teens who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, questioning and other non-heterosexual identities also experience high levels of violence and distress, the survey found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There is no question from this data [that] young people are telling us that they are in crisis,\" says \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/ethierka\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kathleen Ethier\u003c/a>, director of the CDC's Division of Adolescent and School Health. \"And there is this growing wave of violence and trauma that's affecting young people, especially teen girls and LGBTQ+ youth.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every two years, the CDC \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/healthyyouth/data/yrbs/yrbs_data_summary_and_trends.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">surveys 9th through 12th graders across the country\u003c/a> about a range of health behaviors and experiences for a report titled, the Youth Risk Behavior Survey. On Monday, it released the results from the most recent survey conducted in 2021, along with the trends over the past decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While 11% of all teens reported facing sexual violence in the past year, 18% of girls and 22% of LGBTQ+ youth reported the same. Among racial and ethnic groups, American Indian or Alaska Native teens were the most likely to have faced sexual violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And more than one in ten girls had been forced to have sex in their lifetime, says Ethier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That is just an overwhelming finding,\" she says. \"So, not surprisingly, we're also seeing that almost 60% of teen girls had depressive symptoms in the past year, which is the highest level in a decade.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly one in three girls also reported seriously considering suicide in the past year – a 60% rise from a decade ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report also found that 52% of teens identifying as LGBTQ+ experienced poor mental health in the past year, with 1 in 5 saying they had attempted suicide during that period of time. Among racial and ethnic groups Native American teens were the most likely to have attempted suicide in the year before, followed by Black youth, at 14%.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Trauma plays a role\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>There's often a history of trauma among teens experiencing a mental health crisis, says\u003ca href=\"https://faculty.medicine.hofstra.edu/7557-vera-feuer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Dr. Vera Feuer\u003c/a>, a child and adolescent psychiatrist at Northwell Health in Long Island, NY, who did not participate in the study.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Most of the kids presenting to psychiatric emergency rooms and a lot of the kids presenting with suicidal thoughts do have a background that includes trauma,\" she says, and that trauma often stems from, \"some sort of victimization, sexual victimization, as well as bullying, cyber bullying.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, there are a whole host of social and environmental factors driving the behaviors and mental health problems among teens, especially teen girls, says \u003ca href=\"https://rogersbh.org/staff/stephanie-eken\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dr. Stephanie Eken\u003c/a>, a pediatrician and child and adolescent psychiatrist at \u003ca href=\"https://rogersbh.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rogers Behavioral Health\u003c/a> in Wisconsin, which also has a program for adolescent girls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of those factors, she says, is early puberty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Girls \"are starting puberty early, and we know that hormones certainly start to differentiate issues for females versus males,\" says Eken. \"When we look at research studies, girls, when they start to hit puberty, start to have increasing rates of depression and anxiety. So there are the hormonal factors that we think could play a role.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Social media also plays a major role, she adds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We see that for girls and their social networks, even when they're socializing, they are not socializing in person,\" she says. \"They are socializing through their phone or through some type of device rather than in-person.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, she adds, adolescents in general, and girls in particular need in-person social contact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lack of it, she adds, has created higher levels of loneliness among teens, even before the pandemic. And loneliness is a well known risk factor for suicide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Social media also exposes girls to all kinds of negative social pressures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Body type expectations and the images that they're shown with the flood of information that we have available to us has detrimental effects,\" says Eken. \"And they're being exposed to them earlier and earlier in their lives when their brains are not prepared to deal with this information and know what to do with it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's also why there's been a dramatic rise in teen girls with eating disorders in recent years, say Eken and Feuer.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Schools can be part of the solution\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Schools are key, the report suggests, to help teens facing these behavioral and mental health challenges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Schools are on the front lines of dealing with the mental health crisis that we're experiencing in this country,\" says the CDC's Ethier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She points to a number of things that schools can do to prevent these issues and also to support vulnerable students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Things like making sure teachers are well trained in dealing with the mental health issues that are arising in their classrooms, making sure that there are programs in place to get young people out into their communities to provide service and bringing important community members into schools to meet, to provide mentorship,\" Ethier says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report also points to the need to have school environments where students feel socially connected, not just to their peers, but also to caring adults.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The role of other trusted adults at school is a big part of that,\" says Feuer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A proven way to protect vulnerable students against despair and suicide is to help them feel like they belong – at school, at home, in their communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We know from suicide research that the sense of belongingness and feeling connected is a really, really important factor to consider,\" adds Feuer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2023 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Teen+girls+and+LGBTQ%2B+youth+plagued+by+violence+and+trauma%2C+survey+says&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/mindshift/61031/teen-girls-and-lgbtq-youth-plagued-by-violence-and-trauma-survey-says","authors":["byline_mindshift_61031"],"categories":["mindshift_21445","mindshift_21280","mindshift_20874"],"tags":["mindshift_20589","mindshift_21556","mindshift_21070","mindshift_20825","mindshift_21339","mindshift_20865","mindshift_20884","mindshift_21159","mindshift_1038","mindshift_21557"],"featImg":"mindshift_61032","label":"mindshift"},"mindshift_60721":{"type":"posts","id":"mindshift_60721","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"mindshift","id":"60721","score":null,"sort":[1671651327000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"banned-books-author-susan-kuklin-on-allowing-teens-to-control-their-own-narratives","title":"Banned Books: Author Susan Kuklin on allowing teens to control their own narratives","publishDate":1671651327,"format":"standard","headTitle":"MindShift | KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"mindshift"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cem>This discussion with Susan Kuklin is part of a series of interviews with — and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/12/21/1144627475/author-susan-kuklin-beyond-magenta-book-ban\">essays\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003cem> by — authors who are finding their books being challenged and banned in the U.S.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Writer and photographer Susan Kuklin is the author of the award-winning nonfiction book, \u003cem>Beyond Magenta: Transgender Teens Speak Out.\u003c/em> The book is banned from school library shelves in 11 school districts in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The book compiles Kuklin's photos of — and interviews with — transgender and nonbinary teens and young adults. The stories these teens tell are raw and heartfelt. They describe their experiences transitioning and reflect on their identities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kuklin's work often focuses on human rights issues; she has written about topics ranging from immigration to the AIDS epidemic. \u003cem>Beyond Magenta, \u003c/em>published in 2014, has been on the American Library Association's (ALA) \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/04/04/1090067026/efforts-to-ban-books-jumped-an-unprecedented-four-fold-in-2021-ala-report-says\">list of most books most often challenged\u003c/a> a number of times since 2015, cited for \"for LGBTQIA+ content and because it was considered to be sexually explicit.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The interview below has been edited for length and clarity.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Interview highlights\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On how everyone is human\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignright wp-image-60725 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2022/12/beyond-magenta-2-160x192.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"192\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2022/12/beyond-magenta-2-160x192.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2022/12/beyond-magenta-2.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">When I was talking to various people about whether or not I should be doing the book and what are some of the issues that needed to be addressed. I was uncomfortable, when I didn't know what the sex of the person was. It just felt strange to me and I thought, why should it feel strange to me? Would I be speaking differently to a man than to a woman? It just didn't sit right. And I thought, are we hard wired to believe this? And so I went on a quest to find out if indeed we were hard wired. And I found that we're not. Because very quickly, once I got to know people, it became totally irrelevant... people are people. And that's the point of all my books that people are people and they do some crazy things, some negative things, some positive things, and that's who we are.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On \u003cem>Beyond Magenta\u003c/em> being challenged\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's kind of awful, frankly. When I think about it. I think... here are these kids whose main reason was to... control their own narrative. And they're really good kids. They're nice kids. And my whole for doing this point was to start a conversation to bring humanity to the page, to show some empathy, to just be able to broaden ourselves. And instead the book is being vilified. Vilified because of who these people are.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On what it means to have a book banned vs. challenged\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Well, banned and challenged are two different points. When you're challenged, a person, a parent, whoever goes to the school and fills out a form saying this book should not be in your library. That's the challenge. Banned is the actual removal of the book.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On what some people are objecting to in her book\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oddly, people are mostly complaining about things that have little to do with being transgender. So what they do is they'll pick a paragraph from the story, whether it's bad language — because kids curse — or whether it's a story of someone's life. They take it out of context, and then they turn — they complain about that, that the whole book should be banned and everything that's in it because of a paragraph here or a word there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>...people took [one] chapter and that story and turned it around into something very negative and very ugly. Whereas I saw it as an example of how someone can survive. I saw that chapter as someone who started — who was born into a terrible environment with lots of violence and very little education and managed to become a hero and live a successful life and go to college. To pretend that people like this do not exist is ridiculous because we know they do exist, and so their voices being heard could be very helpful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On the importance of telling stories that inform understanding\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those kids are so important to me. They're just beautiful people. I think the one story that I appreciated a lot was a young trans woman who went to an all boys Catholic school in the Bronx. By her senior year she decided she was going to live her true life...she started a transition right there in school. She bucked an awful lot of bullying and teasing and stood her ground — and today is a beautiful artist and creative person and living a wonderful life. Also in that chapter, which was very important to me, was her mother, who was very much opposed to her becoming female — her transitioning. Her evolution from being frightened, scared, uninformed to an absolutely adoring parent is a beautiful story. The mother asked to be in the book. She said she wanted her point to be taken so that parents would know what they were feeling... getting concerned because of parental love. You love your child. You hear your child. You love your child.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Claire Murashima produced the broadcast version of this story. Meghan Collins Sullivan edited this story for the web.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Banned+Books%3A+Author+Susan+Kuklin+on+telling+stories+that+inform+understanding+&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Susan Kuklin published the award-winning \"Beyond Magenta\" in 2014. 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The stories these teens tell are raw and heartfelt. They describe their experiences transitioning and reflect on their identities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kuklin's work often focuses on human rights issues; she has written about topics ranging from immigration to the AIDS epidemic. \u003cem>Beyond Magenta, \u003c/em>published in 2014, has been on the American Library Association's (ALA) \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/04/04/1090067026/efforts-to-ban-books-jumped-an-unprecedented-four-fold-in-2021-ala-report-says\">list of most books most often challenged\u003c/a> a number of times since 2015, cited for \"for LGBTQIA+ content and because it was considered to be sexually explicit.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The interview below has been edited for length and clarity.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Interview highlights\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On how everyone is human\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignright wp-image-60725 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2022/12/beyond-magenta-2-160x192.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"192\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2022/12/beyond-magenta-2-160x192.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2022/12/beyond-magenta-2.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">When I was talking to various people about whether or not I should be doing the book and what are some of the issues that needed to be addressed. I was uncomfortable, when I didn't know what the sex of the person was. It just felt strange to me and I thought, why should it feel strange to me? Would I be speaking differently to a man than to a woman? It just didn't sit right. And I thought, are we hard wired to believe this? And so I went on a quest to find out if indeed we were hard wired. And I found that we're not. Because very quickly, once I got to know people, it became totally irrelevant... people are people. And that's the point of all my books that people are people and they do some crazy things, some negative things, some positive things, and that's who we are.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On \u003cem>Beyond Magenta\u003c/em> being challenged\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's kind of awful, frankly. When I think about it. I think... here are these kids whose main reason was to... control their own narrative. And they're really good kids. They're nice kids. And my whole for doing this point was to start a conversation to bring humanity to the page, to show some empathy, to just be able to broaden ourselves. And instead the book is being vilified. Vilified because of who these people are.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On what it means to have a book banned vs. challenged\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Well, banned and challenged are two different points. When you're challenged, a person, a parent, whoever goes to the school and fills out a form saying this book should not be in your library. That's the challenge. Banned is the actual removal of the book.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On what some people are objecting to in her book\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oddly, people are mostly complaining about things that have little to do with being transgender. So what they do is they'll pick a paragraph from the story, whether it's bad language — because kids curse — or whether it's a story of someone's life. They take it out of context, and then they turn — they complain about that, that the whole book should be banned and everything that's in it because of a paragraph here or a word there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>...people took [one] chapter and that story and turned it around into something very negative and very ugly. Whereas I saw it as an example of how someone can survive. I saw that chapter as someone who started — who was born into a terrible environment with lots of violence and very little education and managed to become a hero and live a successful life and go to college. To pretend that people like this do not exist is ridiculous because we know they do exist, and so their voices being heard could be very helpful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On the importance of telling stories that inform understanding\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those kids are so important to me. They're just beautiful people. I think the one story that I appreciated a lot was a young trans woman who went to an all boys Catholic school in the Bronx. By her senior year she decided she was going to live her true life...she started a transition right there in school. She bucked an awful lot of bullying and teasing and stood her ground — and today is a beautiful artist and creative person and living a wonderful life. Also in that chapter, which was very important to me, was her mother, who was very much opposed to her becoming female — her transitioning. Her evolution from being frightened, scared, uninformed to an absolutely adoring parent is a beautiful story. The mother asked to be in the book. She said she wanted her point to be taken so that parents would know what they were feeling... getting concerned because of parental love. You love your child. You hear your child. 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To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Banned+Books%3A+Author+Susan+Kuklin+on+telling+stories+that+inform+understanding+&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/mindshift/60721/banned-books-author-susan-kuklin-on-allowing-teens-to-control-their-own-narratives","authors":["byline_mindshift_60721"],"categories":["mindshift_21445","mindshift_21517","mindshift_21014"],"tags":["mindshift_21516","mindshift_972","mindshift_21518","mindshift_1038","mindshift_21451","mindshift_21397"],"featImg":"mindshift_60722","label":"mindshift"},"mindshift_59379":{"type":"posts","id":"mindshift_59379","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"mindshift","id":"59379","score":null,"sort":[1652533891000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"4-high-school-students-talk-mental-health-and-how-the-pandemic-changed-them","title":"4 high school students talk mental health and how the pandemic changed them","publishDate":1652533891,"format":"standard","headTitle":"MindShift | KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"mindshift"},"content":"\u003cp>At this point in the pandemic, American teens have spent a significant chunk of their formative years isolated from friends and in fractured learning environments. More than 2 in 5 teens have reported persistently feeling sad or hopeless, according to a new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/71/su/pdfs/su7103a1-a5-H.pdf\">survey of high school students\u003c/a>. Many who were already struggling with trauma or mental health problems before the pandemic were deeply affected by the prolonged isolation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But young people have also shown grace and resilience as they dealt with the challenges of COVID-19. NPR spoke to four high school students who marked the pandemic's two year anniversary with a newfound sense of self, and big dreams for the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>If you or someone you know may be considering suicide, contact the \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"http://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/\">\u003cem>National Suicide Prevention Lifeline\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> at 1-800-273-8255 (en español: 1-888-628-9454; deaf and hard of hearing: 1-800-799-4889) or the \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"http://www.crisistextline.org/\">\u003cem>Crisis Text Line\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> by texting HOME to 741741.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Ruby, 17: \"I left a toxic friendship, I explored myself more.\"\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>By the time the pandemic closed her school in March 2020, Ruby had already spent weeks trying to ignore her mom's warnings about COVID-19. Her mom is Chinese, and their relatives back in China had been updating her on the virus' spread since its early days. Ruby says when her spring break got extended, her mom told her: \"Oh yeah, you won't be going back to school anytime soon.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At first, remote learning heightened a lot of the anxieties Ruby already felt about her Minnetonka, Minn. high school. She transferred there in the fall of 2019 and was struggling to feel like she fit in because many of her new classmates came from wealthier families. NPR isn't using Ruby's last name to protect her privacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was just something I was worrying about constantly,\" she said. \"I was afraid to even move in class. I was just, like, sitting there, and I did not move because I was so anxious about what they were thinking about me.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When school went online, Ruby, then a freshman, was self-conscious about showing her house on camera. She also had a hard time finding a quiet place to concentrate as her two siblings also switched to remote learning – she would often lose focus during Zoom class. During remote school, she says, \"I didn't learn anything.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ruby wasn't the only one. In the first several months of the pandemic, two-thirds of U.S. students in grades nine through 12 \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/71/su/su7103a5.htm?s_cid=su7103a5_w\">told the CDC\u003c/a> reported difficulty completing their schoolwork.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One upside to remote school was that it put some distance between Ruby and a friendship that she describes as toxic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"She was the only person I really knew, so I kind of felt safe around her,\" Ruby explains. \"But at the same time, I didn't really feel so safe because the people who she hung out with were not my people.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Things changed for the better during Ruby's sophomore year, when her school transitioned to hybrid learning and she decided to leave that friendship. She started to nurture relationships with the three people who are now her best friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I left a toxic friendship, I explored myself more.\" she says. \"I would say [the pandemic] has definitely made me a stronger person.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Teja, 18: \"The lack of structure just led to me becoming obsessive.\"\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>When her Seattle high school closed in March 2020, Teja's world started to disintegrate. Her jazz choir trip and swim practices were canceled, her clubs were confined to Zoom meetings and her entire life was condensed to her family's home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teja, then a sophomore, had been diagnosed with anorexia during her freshman year of high school and when the pandemic hit, she was in recovery. NPR isn't using her last name to protect her privacy around her anorexia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"School was a huge motivator for me, for... staying on track for recovery because school is something I love. I love to learn. It's really important to me and that was only possible if I was eating,\" Teja says. \"And then all of a sudden school was canceled.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those early months of the pandemic were extremely destabilizing for Teja, and for other teenaged girls with eating disorders. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/71/wr/mm7108e2.htm\">CDC found\u003c/a> the proportion of emergency room visits for eating disorders increased among adolescent girls in 2020 and 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teja relapsed, and her family noticed. After a difficult conversation with her dad about how she might have to go to the hospital, Teja called a friend who talked her down. \"She was like, 'It's not fair to frighten you, but on the other hand, that is the reality.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says the conversation was a wake-up call.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I realized the only way I would be happy and have structure is if I created that for myself. So I made a schedule and I set goals,\" Teja says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the summer of 2020, she started going on daily walks with her dog, planning outdoor meetups with friends and writing music on a regular basis – all in addition to regular meetings with her psychiatrist. Eventually, she was healthy enough to attend outdoor swim team practices in nearby Lake Washington.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was a lot of fun to be back in the water again and be back with my teammates. So those things kind of helped ground me with why I wanted to continue in recovery.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that grounding didn't last long. When remote learning continued into her junior year, in fall 2020, she says, \"I just became really anxious about school in a way that I hadn't really been before.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm very perfectionistic,\" Teja explains, \"and the lack of structure just led to me becoming obsessive.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The things that usually brought her joy, like practicing with the jazz choir, didn't feel the same without her classmates singing by her side. \"I think the primary thing was the isolation. There was no one to catch me from spiraling.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the fall of 2020, Teja's anxiety was getting worse. That's when the seizures started – sometimes more than 10 a day. \"I couldn't leave the house,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three weeks after her first seizure, she was diagnosed with a \u003ca href=\"https://www.ninds.nih.gov/Disorders/Patient-Caregiver-Education/Fact-Sheets/Functional-Neurologic-Disorder\">rare neurological disorder\u003c/a> called Functional Neurologic Disorder that can be triggered by things like anxiety, stress and trauma.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That was a really, really hard couple of months because I couldn't do anything. You couldn't see friends without having seizures. My friends had my parents on speed dial for when I'd have seizures on Zoom.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She and her family had to go all the way to Colorado to find treatment in February 2021 – and the treatment helped. She started having fewer seizures, and this past fall, she returned to in-person classes for the first time since the pandemic started. She says being back at school has been strange, but good.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"On my first day of school, my schedule was messed up and I was like, this is such an unusual experience. Like, it's been so long since I've had an issue as small as like, 'Oh, my schedule's wrong.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teja also got to return to some of the activities she loves most. She says getting back to some sense of normalcy has helped her recover from everything she went through during the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I was able to do a live production of \u003cem>Alice in Wonderland\u003c/em>. And that, to me, was the first time I was like: It is important that I am here. Like, if I were to get sick and I couldn't be here, it would matter. And that was the first time in my high school experience that I felt that way.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Alex, 16:\u003c/strong> \u003cstrong>\"I was asking myself, 'Am I a male? I don't look like the typical guy.' \"\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Pandemic isolation was a mixed bag for Alex, who lives in northern Minnesota.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the one hand, the isolation worsened a lot of the struggles he was already having around mental health. Alex, now a junior, had been sexually abused in middle school, and was later diagnosed with anxiety, depression and PTSD. NPR isn't using Alex's last name to protect his privacy as a minor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He hoped being quarantined at home would make him feel safer and less paranoid. But it didn't.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Honestly, if anything, it made it worse,\" he says. He felt trapped, and he constantly worried his abuser would find him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sitting at home, Alex had a lot of time to think. He started to look deeper into questions he had about his gender identity. \"I was asking myself, 'Am I a male? I don't look like the typical guy. I don't act like the other trans people I see online or in school,' \" he recalls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After months of contemplation, he began identifying as trans masculine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, in spring 2020, at the end of his freshman year, he started seeing a new therapist via telehealth appointments, which he liked better than in-person therapy. He was able to do therapy from the safety of his bed. \"You have all your comfort items right there.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It helped him open up in a new way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I kinda just started getting braver. I started expressing what I was feeling,\" he explains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was like Jenga. Once one thing fell, everything else started falling. There was just kind of like word vomit.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the fall of 2020, Alex started his sophomore year in-person, at a new school. \"I was basically like, 'Look, it's a new start.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He reconnected with an old friend, who quickly became his best friend. \"We're at the point where we could just sit in silence and one of us would randomly start laughing, and the other person would know what we're laughing at already,\" he says. They like to hang out and do each others' makeup – Alex enjoys cosplaying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But recovery isn't always a straight line. In October 2021, Alex was hospitalized after attempting to take his own life. According to the CDC, in the first several months of the pandemic, 1 in 5 U.S. high school students had seriously considered attempting suicide, and 9% had tried to kill themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since his hospitalization, Alex has been working with his therapist on finding healthy coping mechanisms for processing his traumas, like \"drawing, focusing on schoolwork and getting out into the community more.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Right now, he says he's doing \"pretty good. I'm stressed, but I'm a high school student, so that's inevitable. I'm working on my trauma, but trauma processing is all your life. You just learn new ways to cope with it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Daniela Rivera, 17: \"I just lost all motivation\"\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Daniela Rivera enjoys learning, and she likes being in school – but not so much when she doesn't understand the material, which was what made school during the pandemic so hard for her. In March 2020, Daniela was in her freshman year of high school in Cottonwood, Ariz. At first, her school's remote learning option didn't include live instruction, just packets of optional work – which Daniela didn't do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That fall, her school began using online lessons from an educational company. Daniela found herself alone in her room, clicking through hours of pre-recorded videos with no actual teacher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I didn't get a lot of things. I gave up completely,\" Daniela says. \"Every day I'd just stay in my bed. I'd wake up...be on school in my bed and just get up to go eat.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her motivation for schoolwork instantly changed. \"I was behind in all my classes. I would play [remote learning] videos...and go out to the living room and talk to my mom while the video is playing. I come in, like, 30 minutes later and the video is still playing. I just lost all motivation.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"[The pandemic] got me into the mindset where, like, I'm just trapped in this house and I can't do nothing. And like, I have stuff I could do outside, but I just felt like I couldn't even open the front door.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/71/su/su7103a3.htm?s_cid=su7103a3_w\">According to the CDC\u003c/a>, nearly 2 in 5 teens reported experiencing poor mental health during the pandemic. That's something Daniela struggled with, too. In the evenings, she would FaceTime her boyfriend, and they would talk about how the days were starting to blur together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She had a part-time job as a hostess at a restaurant on the weekends, and that job made it hard to maintain her friendships because all her friends worked weekday shifts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When her school started offering a hybrid option partway through the fall semester of her sophomore year, in 2020, Daniela was excited. But it wasn't the same. Her lessons were still the same pre-recorded videos. She would sit in a classroom all day, separated from other students by a row of desks, with a single teacher to supervise her as she watched from a laptop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Being back in school didn't make it any easier to keep in touch with her friends – they chose to stay fully online so they could keep their jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"[I'm] definitely sad because they... went from being one of the closest people to me to becoming a stranger. I don't know how they are, I don't know what they're doing, I don't know what's happened in their life.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Things got better as school permanently transitioned back to regular, in-person learning in spring 2021. But returning to business-as-usual has made Daniela realize how much she changed over the pandemic. \"I've always been a shy, quiet person. But I feel like even now, I'm quieter and shyer than usual.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also noticed words don't seem to roll off her tongue as easily as they used to, especially when she's called on in class. \"My fear of public speaking has gotten worse in all this because I haven't been, like, speaking out loud to anyone.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One thing she's grateful for: The past two years gave her time and space to get to know herself better. In pandemic isolation, she discovered that she loves to go fishing with her boyfriend, and she's now a big fan of indie music.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I know who I am now.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2022 NPR. 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","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"59379 https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/?p=59379","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2022/05/14/4-high-school-students-talk-mental-health-and-how-the-pandemic-changed-them/","disqusTitle":"4 high school students talk mental health and how the pandemic changed them","nprByline":"Anya Steinberg","nprImageAgency":"Photo collage by LA Johnson/NPR","nprStoryId":"1093737862","nprApiLink":"http://api.npr.org/query?id=1093737862&apiKey=MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004","nprHtmlLink":"https://www.npr.org/2022/05/14/1093737862/covid19-mental-health-students?ft=nprml&f=1093737862","nprRetrievedStory":"1","nprPubDate":"Sat, 14 May 2022 05:37:00 -0400","nprStoryDate":"Sat, 14 May 2022 05:37:48 -0400","nprLastModifiedDate":"Sat, 14 May 2022 05:37:48 -0400","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","path":"/mindshift/59379/4-high-school-students-talk-mental-health-and-how-the-pandemic-changed-them","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>At this point in the pandemic, American teens have spent a significant chunk of their formative years isolated from friends and in fractured learning environments. More than 2 in 5 teens have reported persistently feeling sad or hopeless, according to a new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/71/su/pdfs/su7103a1-a5-H.pdf\">survey of high school students\u003c/a>. Many who were already struggling with trauma or mental health problems before the pandemic were deeply affected by the prolonged isolation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But young people have also shown grace and resilience as they dealt with the challenges of COVID-19. NPR spoke to four high school students who marked the pandemic's two year anniversary with a newfound sense of self, and big dreams for the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>If you or someone you know may be considering suicide, contact the \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"http://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/\">\u003cem>National Suicide Prevention Lifeline\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> at 1-800-273-8255 (en español: 1-888-628-9454; deaf and hard of hearing: 1-800-799-4889) or the \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"http://www.crisistextline.org/\">\u003cem>Crisis Text Line\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> by texting HOME to 741741.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Ruby, 17: \"I left a toxic friendship, I explored myself more.\"\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>By the time the pandemic closed her school in March 2020, Ruby had already spent weeks trying to ignore her mom's warnings about COVID-19. Her mom is Chinese, and their relatives back in China had been updating her on the virus' spread since its early days. Ruby says when her spring break got extended, her mom told her: \"Oh yeah, you won't be going back to school anytime soon.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At first, remote learning heightened a lot of the anxieties Ruby already felt about her Minnetonka, Minn. high school. She transferred there in the fall of 2019 and was struggling to feel like she fit in because many of her new classmates came from wealthier families. NPR isn't using Ruby's last name to protect her privacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was just something I was worrying about constantly,\" she said. \"I was afraid to even move in class. I was just, like, sitting there, and I did not move because I was so anxious about what they were thinking about me.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When school went online, Ruby, then a freshman, was self-conscious about showing her house on camera. She also had a hard time finding a quiet place to concentrate as her two siblings also switched to remote learning – she would often lose focus during Zoom class. During remote school, she says, \"I didn't learn anything.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ruby wasn't the only one. In the first several months of the pandemic, two-thirds of U.S. students in grades nine through 12 \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/71/su/su7103a5.htm?s_cid=su7103a5_w\">told the CDC\u003c/a> reported difficulty completing their schoolwork.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One upside to remote school was that it put some distance between Ruby and a friendship that she describes as toxic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"She was the only person I really knew, so I kind of felt safe around her,\" Ruby explains. \"But at the same time, I didn't really feel so safe because the people who she hung out with were not my people.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Things changed for the better during Ruby's sophomore year, when her school transitioned to hybrid learning and she decided to leave that friendship. She started to nurture relationships with the three people who are now her best friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I left a toxic friendship, I explored myself more.\" she says. \"I would say [the pandemic] has definitely made me a stronger person.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Teja, 18: \"The lack of structure just led to me becoming obsessive.\"\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>When her Seattle high school closed in March 2020, Teja's world started to disintegrate. Her jazz choir trip and swim practices were canceled, her clubs were confined to Zoom meetings and her entire life was condensed to her family's home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teja, then a sophomore, had been diagnosed with anorexia during her freshman year of high school and when the pandemic hit, she was in recovery. NPR isn't using her last name to protect her privacy around her anorexia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"School was a huge motivator for me, for... staying on track for recovery because school is something I love. I love to learn. It's really important to me and that was only possible if I was eating,\" Teja says. \"And then all of a sudden school was canceled.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those early months of the pandemic were extremely destabilizing for Teja, and for other teenaged girls with eating disorders. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/71/wr/mm7108e2.htm\">CDC found\u003c/a> the proportion of emergency room visits for eating disorders increased among adolescent girls in 2020 and 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teja relapsed, and her family noticed. After a difficult conversation with her dad about how she might have to go to the hospital, Teja called a friend who talked her down. \"She was like, 'It's not fair to frighten you, but on the other hand, that is the reality.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says the conversation was a wake-up call.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I realized the only way I would be happy and have structure is if I created that for myself. So I made a schedule and I set goals,\" Teja says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the summer of 2020, she started going on daily walks with her dog, planning outdoor meetups with friends and writing music on a regular basis – all in addition to regular meetings with her psychiatrist. Eventually, she was healthy enough to attend outdoor swim team practices in nearby Lake Washington.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was a lot of fun to be back in the water again and be back with my teammates. So those things kind of helped ground me with why I wanted to continue in recovery.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that grounding didn't last long. When remote learning continued into her junior year, in fall 2020, she says, \"I just became really anxious about school in a way that I hadn't really been before.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm very perfectionistic,\" Teja explains, \"and the lack of structure just led to me becoming obsessive.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The things that usually brought her joy, like practicing with the jazz choir, didn't feel the same without her classmates singing by her side. \"I think the primary thing was the isolation. There was no one to catch me from spiraling.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the fall of 2020, Teja's anxiety was getting worse. That's when the seizures started – sometimes more than 10 a day. \"I couldn't leave the house,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three weeks after her first seizure, she was diagnosed with a \u003ca href=\"https://www.ninds.nih.gov/Disorders/Patient-Caregiver-Education/Fact-Sheets/Functional-Neurologic-Disorder\">rare neurological disorder\u003c/a> called Functional Neurologic Disorder that can be triggered by things like anxiety, stress and trauma.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That was a really, really hard couple of months because I couldn't do anything. You couldn't see friends without having seizures. My friends had my parents on speed dial for when I'd have seizures on Zoom.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She and her family had to go all the way to Colorado to find treatment in February 2021 – and the treatment helped. She started having fewer seizures, and this past fall, she returned to in-person classes for the first time since the pandemic started. She says being back at school has been strange, but good.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"On my first day of school, my schedule was messed up and I was like, this is such an unusual experience. Like, it's been so long since I've had an issue as small as like, 'Oh, my schedule's wrong.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teja also got to return to some of the activities she loves most. She says getting back to some sense of normalcy has helped her recover from everything she went through during the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I was able to do a live production of \u003cem>Alice in Wonderland\u003c/em>. And that, to me, was the first time I was like: It is important that I am here. Like, if I were to get sick and I couldn't be here, it would matter. And that was the first time in my high school experience that I felt that way.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Alex, 16:\u003c/strong> \u003cstrong>\"I was asking myself, 'Am I a male? I don't look like the typical guy.' \"\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Pandemic isolation was a mixed bag for Alex, who lives in northern Minnesota.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the one hand, the isolation worsened a lot of the struggles he was already having around mental health. Alex, now a junior, had been sexually abused in middle school, and was later diagnosed with anxiety, depression and PTSD. NPR isn't using Alex's last name to protect his privacy as a minor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He hoped being quarantined at home would make him feel safer and less paranoid. But it didn't.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Honestly, if anything, it made it worse,\" he says. He felt trapped, and he constantly worried his abuser would find him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sitting at home, Alex had a lot of time to think. He started to look deeper into questions he had about his gender identity. \"I was asking myself, 'Am I a male? I don't look like the typical guy. I don't act like the other trans people I see online or in school,' \" he recalls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After months of contemplation, he began identifying as trans masculine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, in spring 2020, at the end of his freshman year, he started seeing a new therapist via telehealth appointments, which he liked better than in-person therapy. He was able to do therapy from the safety of his bed. \"You have all your comfort items right there.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It helped him open up in a new way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I kinda just started getting braver. I started expressing what I was feeling,\" he explains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was like Jenga. Once one thing fell, everything else started falling. There was just kind of like word vomit.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the fall of 2020, Alex started his sophomore year in-person, at a new school. \"I was basically like, 'Look, it's a new start.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He reconnected with an old friend, who quickly became his best friend. \"We're at the point where we could just sit in silence and one of us would randomly start laughing, and the other person would know what we're laughing at already,\" he says. They like to hang out and do each others' makeup – Alex enjoys cosplaying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But recovery isn't always a straight line. In October 2021, Alex was hospitalized after attempting to take his own life. According to the CDC, in the first several months of the pandemic, 1 in 5 U.S. high school students had seriously considered attempting suicide, and 9% had tried to kill themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since his hospitalization, Alex has been working with his therapist on finding healthy coping mechanisms for processing his traumas, like \"drawing, focusing on schoolwork and getting out into the community more.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Right now, he says he's doing \"pretty good. I'm stressed, but I'm a high school student, so that's inevitable. I'm working on my trauma, but trauma processing is all your life. You just learn new ways to cope with it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Daniela Rivera, 17: \"I just lost all motivation\"\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Daniela Rivera enjoys learning, and she likes being in school – but not so much when she doesn't understand the material, which was what made school during the pandemic so hard for her. In March 2020, Daniela was in her freshman year of high school in Cottonwood, Ariz. At first, her school's remote learning option didn't include live instruction, just packets of optional work – which Daniela didn't do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That fall, her school began using online lessons from an educational company. Daniela found herself alone in her room, clicking through hours of pre-recorded videos with no actual teacher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I didn't get a lot of things. I gave up completely,\" Daniela says. \"Every day I'd just stay in my bed. I'd wake up...be on school in my bed and just get up to go eat.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her motivation for schoolwork instantly changed. \"I was behind in all my classes. I would play [remote learning] videos...and go out to the living room and talk to my mom while the video is playing. I come in, like, 30 minutes later and the video is still playing. I just lost all motivation.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"[The pandemic] got me into the mindset where, like, I'm just trapped in this house and I can't do nothing. And like, I have stuff I could do outside, but I just felt like I couldn't even open the front door.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/71/su/su7103a3.htm?s_cid=su7103a3_w\">According to the CDC\u003c/a>, nearly 2 in 5 teens reported experiencing poor mental health during the pandemic. That's something Daniela struggled with, too. In the evenings, she would FaceTime her boyfriend, and they would talk about how the days were starting to blur together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She had a part-time job as a hostess at a restaurant on the weekends, and that job made it hard to maintain her friendships because all her friends worked weekday shifts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When her school started offering a hybrid option partway through the fall semester of her sophomore year, in 2020, Daniela was excited. But it wasn't the same. Her lessons were still the same pre-recorded videos. She would sit in a classroom all day, separated from other students by a row of desks, with a single teacher to supervise her as she watched from a laptop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Being back in school didn't make it any easier to keep in touch with her friends – they chose to stay fully online so they could keep their jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"[I'm] definitely sad because they... went from being one of the closest people to me to becoming a stranger. I don't know how they are, I don't know what they're doing, I don't know what's happened in their life.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Things got better as school permanently transitioned back to regular, in-person learning in spring 2021. But returning to business-as-usual has made Daniela realize how much she changed over the pandemic. \"I've always been a shy, quiet person. But I feel like even now, I'm quieter and shyer than usual.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also noticed words don't seem to roll off her tongue as easily as they used to, especially when she's called on in class. \"My fear of public speaking has gotten worse in all this because I haven't been, like, speaking out loud to anyone.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One thing she's grateful for: The past two years gave her time and space to get to know herself better. In pandemic isolation, she discovered that she loves to go fishing with her boyfriend, and she's now a big fan of indie music.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I know who I am now.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=4+high+school+students+talk+mental+health+and+how+the+pandemic+changed+them&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/mindshift/59379/4-high-school-students-talk-mental-health-and-how-the-pandemic-changed-them","authors":["byline_mindshift_59379"],"categories":["mindshift_20874"],"tags":["mindshift_21343","mindshift_21339","mindshift_20865","mindshift_21213","mindshift_1038"],"featImg":"mindshift_59380","label":"mindshift"},"mindshift_58802":{"type":"posts","id":"mindshift_58802","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"mindshift","id":"58802","score":null,"sort":[1638518206000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"the-case-for-free-tampons-and-pads-in-schools","title":"The case for free tampons and pads in schools","publishDate":1638518206,"format":"standard","headTitle":"MindShift | KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"mindshift"},"content":"\u003cp>At age 9, Mahoro Amani got their period for the first time. At home, their mother talked openly about everything they needed to know. But, their mom told them, never mention this at school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I was told to basically keep it a secret,\" says Amani, who's now 15 and a 10th grader at Miami Arts Charter High School, in Florida. The school, they say, doesn't teach students about periods or supply menstrual products to students in restrooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was really concerning to me how many kids have had panic attacks or cried in the bathroom because they don't have pads and none of their friends have pads on them,\" Amani said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amani is the president of the school's student council, and they're working with others on the council to get free menstrual products in the school's restrooms. However, administrators have told them there are no plans to use school funds to do so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Florida is one of many states that do not require schools to provide menstrual products, and a growing number of organizations, activists and students like Amani are trying to change that.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cimg class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-58804\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2021/12/period-products-ljohnson-v2artboard-3_sq-2f231006b23880c50e624fbed26902eed7df8038-160x160.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"160\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2021/12/period-products-ljohnson-v2artboard-3_sq-2f231006b23880c50e624fbed26902eed7df8038-160x160.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2021/12/period-products-ljohnson-v2artboard-3_sq-2f231006b23880c50e624fbed26902eed7df8038.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">Dozens of states are considering laws related to period equity\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>This year, bills related to period equity have \u003ca href=\"https://www.womensvoices.org/2021/01/11/period-health-policies-is-your-state-working-to-make-menstrual-equity-a-priority/\">been introduced in 37 states\u003c/a>, according to Women's Voices For The Earth, a nonprofit advocacy group. But as of this fall, only five states require schools to provide menstrual products. Last month, California \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/10/09/1044720102/california-free-tampons-schools\">became the latest to do so\u003c/a>, mandating that public schools and colleges stock free pads, tampons and other products in their restrooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Michigan, the city of Ann Arbor recently passed a law to\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/11/18/1056964746/ann-arbor-michigan-tampons-menstrual-products\"> stock all public toilets \u003c/a>with menstrual products.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Florida, legislation that would require free products in school restrooms \u003ca href=\"https://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Bills/billsdetail.aspx?BillId=70008\">has been introduced twice\u003c/a>, but has yet to pass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recent studies have shown that \u003ca href=\"https://www.forbes.com/sites/alicebroster/2021/05/20/almost-a-quarter-of-students-struggle-to-access-period-products-new-study-finds/?sh=2ce490a749de\">about a quarter of menstruating students\u003c/a> struggle with access to period products, and that many teens still feel a stigma around menstruation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This country already expects schools to provide toilet paper and soap,\" says Damaris Pereda, the national programs director of PERIOD, a nonprofit advocacy group. Why, she asks, shouldn't students who menstruate have the same access to basic supplies? \"So that if something happens, they just go to the restroom and get their things and continue to live their lives.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Access to period products has an impact on learning loss\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Currently, many schools keep menstrual products in the school nurse's office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-58805\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2021/12/period-products-ljohnson-v2artboard-2_sq-a9c9a5fbea9629d6bb77ea639e5eb19fb46a8a55-160x160.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"160\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2021/12/period-products-ljohnson-v2artboard-2_sq-a9c9a5fbea9629d6bb77ea639e5eb19fb46a8a55-160x160.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2021/12/period-products-ljohnson-v2artboard-2_sq-a9c9a5fbea9629d6bb77ea639e5eb19fb46a8a55.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">At those schools, \"while you can get a period product, you often have to walk across the campus while you're still bleeding through,\" Pereda says. \"What happens in that case is that a lot of students feel ashamed and like they've lost some of their dignity.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Right now, there is little national data about teenagers' access to menstrual products. But what little information there is suggests the lack of access is worse for poor students. The only \u003ca href=\"https://period.org/uploads/State-of-the-Period-2021.pdf\">publicly available study\u003c/a> tracking the impact of period poverty among U.S. teenage students, which was funded by PERIOD, found that 23 percent of students have struggled to afford period products.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California addressed this lack of access in\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB10\"> 2017 by requiring schools\u003c/a> in low-income districts to provide free period products in schools. The legislation passed in October expanded that access to all schools and requires products to be in half of a school's bathrooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It becomes a barrier to education,\" says Christina Garcia, the Democratic state assemblywoman who introduced the legislation, which was signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) in October. \"These are our most vulnerable kids, who already have a lot of barriers. This should not be one of them.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nicky Dawkins, who runs PERIOD's Miami chapter, is hoping the recent legislative win in California will help mobilize educators, students and health professionals across Florida.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We don't want to continue to Band-Aid this problem,\" Dawkins says. \"We want to solve the issue, which is done through passing bills.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The study also found that 70% of students felt that their school environment made them feel self-conscious about their period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Miami Arts, Amani feels like the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/03/20/594966524/talking-about-periods-in-public\">stigma\u003c/a> can be seen everywhere. They told NPR that there isn't a nurse that students can go to when they need period products or have questions about their period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There are people who think they're dying because they started bleeding,\" Amani said. \"They freak out and don't know what to do, and if schools were more open about menstruation, we could lessen the stigma.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alfredo de la Rosa, the founder and principal of Miami Arts Charter, told NPR that while the school does not employ a nurse, students can go to an administrator's office if they need menstrual products. \"A female assistant principal (or delegate if she is absent) is assigned to provide menstrual products to any young lady who requests them,\" he said in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Activists see period products as a medical necessity\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Advocates say the issue goes beyond stigma, to affect the quality of education as well. The study found that 4 in 5 menstruating teens said they \u003ca href=\"https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0795/1599/files/State-of-the-Period-white-paper_Thinx_PERIOD.pdf\">have either missed class time\u003c/a>, or know someone who missed class time, because they did not have access to period products.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pereda says this learning loss often happens when students need to go home because they are unable to find products they need: \"Then, they don't want to come back to school, or if they do, they've already lost that time, all because they didn't have access period products at school.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like Amani, Margaret Schedler approached her school about stocking the bathrooms with period products. She's a junior at The Altamont School, a private college prep school in Birmingham, Ala. Schedler says the administration was receptive to the idea, and agreed to her plan to have her school club raise money for the project. The school provides, and pays for, menstrual products to students in the front office and nurse's office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-58806\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2021/12/period-products-ljohnson-v2artboard-1_sq-fa6fed506d1c8463b8edafd3d3c438774bd03a24-160x160.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"160\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2021/12/period-products-ljohnson-v2artboard-1_sq-fa6fed506d1c8463b8edafd3d3c438774bd03a24-160x160.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2021/12/period-products-ljohnson-v2artboard-1_sq-fa6fed506d1c8463b8edafd3d3c438774bd03a24.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">Now, Schedler's club, Ladies of Lavender, relies on student donations to provide menstrual products in Altamont's restrooms. Even though the club receives a lot of donations, Schedler says it still feels unfair that the students bear this responsibility, especially because they have to hold donation drives every month, and students often complain that they've already donated supplies in the past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Schools should realize that [menstruation] isn't a choice,\" Schedler argues. \"And if they want to support menstruating citizens, they should do the bare minimum and make sure that public- and state-funded places have period products that people can use.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cost is often cited as a factor when considering whether to provide widespread access to these products. \u003ca href=\"https://www.freethetampons.org/\">Free the Tampon\u003c/a>, an advocacy group focused on getting period products in state budgets, estimates that it costs\u003ca href=\"https://www.freethetampons.org/uploads/1/1/9/6/119665890/kit_for_schools.pdf\"> $5-7 per year per student \u003c/a>to supply period products. Advocates working with the Office of Legislative Services in New Jersey are estimating the cost of the recent law requiring schools to provide period products to students in public schools at about $750,000 per year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates say the costs bring benefits for students. A pilot program in New York City\u003ca href=\"https://www.today.com/health/free-tampons-some-nyc-public-schools-will-provide-feminine-hygiene-t80766\"> found that attendance increased by 2.4%\u003c/a> among girls at a city high school after making tampons and pads available in its restrooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others argue that the question of cost sidesteps a larger point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Menstrual products should be treated in the same way you treat restocking toilet paper,\" says Michele Anzabi, one of the presidents of the PERIOD chapter at the University of Pennsylvania. \"It's a medical necessity and therefore, it shouldn't be hindered by conversations about cost, but treated as something that needs to be addressed.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2021 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=The+case+for+free+tampons+and+pads+in+schools&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Activists say menstrual products are a basic necessity that shouldn't require a long walk to the school nurse's office, and that providing them is key to removing the stigma of periods.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1638518206,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":32,"wordCount":1308},"headData":{"title":"The case for free tampons and pads in schools - MindShift","description":"Activists say menstrual products are a basic necessity that shouldn't require a long walk to the school nurse's office, and that providing them is key to removing the stigma of periods.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"58802 https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/?p=58802","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2021/12/02/the-case-for-free-tampons-and-pads-in-schools/","disqusTitle":"The case for free tampons and pads in schools","nprImageCredit":"LA Johnson","nprByline":"Mansee Khurana","nprImageAgency":"NPR","nprStoryId":"1056830306","nprApiLink":"http://api.npr.org/query?id=1056830306&apiKey=MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004","nprHtmlLink":"https://www.npr.org/2021/12/02/1056830306/free-tampons-public-schools?ft=nprml&f=1056830306","nprRetrievedStory":"1","nprPubDate":"Thu, 02 Dec 2021 09:50:00 -0500","nprStoryDate":"Thu, 02 Dec 2021 09:21:25 -0500","nprLastModifiedDate":"Thu, 02 Dec 2021 09:50:45 -0500","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","path":"/mindshift/58802/the-case-for-free-tampons-and-pads-in-schools","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>At age 9, Mahoro Amani got their period for the first time. At home, their mother talked openly about everything they needed to know. But, their mom told them, never mention this at school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I was told to basically keep it a secret,\" says Amani, who's now 15 and a 10th grader at Miami Arts Charter High School, in Florida. The school, they say, doesn't teach students about periods or supply menstrual products to students in restrooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was really concerning to me how many kids have had panic attacks or cried in the bathroom because they don't have pads and none of their friends have pads on them,\" Amani said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amani is the president of the school's student council, and they're working with others on the council to get free menstrual products in the school's restrooms. However, administrators have told them there are no plans to use school funds to do so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Florida is one of many states that do not require schools to provide menstrual products, and a growing number of organizations, activists and students like Amani are trying to change that.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cimg class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-58804\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2021/12/period-products-ljohnson-v2artboard-3_sq-2f231006b23880c50e624fbed26902eed7df8038-160x160.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"160\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2021/12/period-products-ljohnson-v2artboard-3_sq-2f231006b23880c50e624fbed26902eed7df8038-160x160.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2021/12/period-products-ljohnson-v2artboard-3_sq-2f231006b23880c50e624fbed26902eed7df8038.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">Dozens of states are considering laws related to period equity\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>This year, bills related to period equity have \u003ca href=\"https://www.womensvoices.org/2021/01/11/period-health-policies-is-your-state-working-to-make-menstrual-equity-a-priority/\">been introduced in 37 states\u003c/a>, according to Women's Voices For The Earth, a nonprofit advocacy group. But as of this fall, only five states require schools to provide menstrual products. Last month, California \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/10/09/1044720102/california-free-tampons-schools\">became the latest to do so\u003c/a>, mandating that public schools and colleges stock free pads, tampons and other products in their restrooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Michigan, the city of Ann Arbor recently passed a law to\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/11/18/1056964746/ann-arbor-michigan-tampons-menstrual-products\"> stock all public toilets \u003c/a>with menstrual products.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Florida, legislation that would require free products in school restrooms \u003ca href=\"https://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Bills/billsdetail.aspx?BillId=70008\">has been introduced twice\u003c/a>, but has yet to pass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recent studies have shown that \u003ca href=\"https://www.forbes.com/sites/alicebroster/2021/05/20/almost-a-quarter-of-students-struggle-to-access-period-products-new-study-finds/?sh=2ce490a749de\">about a quarter of menstruating students\u003c/a> struggle with access to period products, and that many teens still feel a stigma around menstruation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This country already expects schools to provide toilet paper and soap,\" says Damaris Pereda, the national programs director of PERIOD, a nonprofit advocacy group. Why, she asks, shouldn't students who menstruate have the same access to basic supplies? \"So that if something happens, they just go to the restroom and get their things and continue to live their lives.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Access to period products has an impact on learning loss\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Currently, many schools keep menstrual products in the school nurse's office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-58805\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2021/12/period-products-ljohnson-v2artboard-2_sq-a9c9a5fbea9629d6bb77ea639e5eb19fb46a8a55-160x160.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"160\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2021/12/period-products-ljohnson-v2artboard-2_sq-a9c9a5fbea9629d6bb77ea639e5eb19fb46a8a55-160x160.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2021/12/period-products-ljohnson-v2artboard-2_sq-a9c9a5fbea9629d6bb77ea639e5eb19fb46a8a55.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">At those schools, \"while you can get a period product, you often have to walk across the campus while you're still bleeding through,\" Pereda says. \"What happens in that case is that a lot of students feel ashamed and like they've lost some of their dignity.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Right now, there is little national data about teenagers' access to menstrual products. But what little information there is suggests the lack of access is worse for poor students. The only \u003ca href=\"https://period.org/uploads/State-of-the-Period-2021.pdf\">publicly available study\u003c/a> tracking the impact of period poverty among U.S. teenage students, which was funded by PERIOD, found that 23 percent of students have struggled to afford period products.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California addressed this lack of access in\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB10\"> 2017 by requiring schools\u003c/a> in low-income districts to provide free period products in schools. The legislation passed in October expanded that access to all schools and requires products to be in half of a school's bathrooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It becomes a barrier to education,\" says Christina Garcia, the Democratic state assemblywoman who introduced the legislation, which was signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) in October. \"These are our most vulnerable kids, who already have a lot of barriers. This should not be one of them.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nicky Dawkins, who runs PERIOD's Miami chapter, is hoping the recent legislative win in California will help mobilize educators, students and health professionals across Florida.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We don't want to continue to Band-Aid this problem,\" Dawkins says. \"We want to solve the issue, which is done through passing bills.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The study also found that 70% of students felt that their school environment made them feel self-conscious about their period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Miami Arts, Amani feels like the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/03/20/594966524/talking-about-periods-in-public\">stigma\u003c/a> can be seen everywhere. They told NPR that there isn't a nurse that students can go to when they need period products or have questions about their period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There are people who think they're dying because they started bleeding,\" Amani said. \"They freak out and don't know what to do, and if schools were more open about menstruation, we could lessen the stigma.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alfredo de la Rosa, the founder and principal of Miami Arts Charter, told NPR that while the school does not employ a nurse, students can go to an administrator's office if they need menstrual products. \"A female assistant principal (or delegate if she is absent) is assigned to provide menstrual products to any young lady who requests them,\" he said in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Activists see period products as a medical necessity\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Advocates say the issue goes beyond stigma, to affect the quality of education as well. The study found that 4 in 5 menstruating teens said they \u003ca href=\"https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0795/1599/files/State-of-the-Period-white-paper_Thinx_PERIOD.pdf\">have either missed class time\u003c/a>, or know someone who missed class time, because they did not have access to period products.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pereda says this learning loss often happens when students need to go home because they are unable to find products they need: \"Then, they don't want to come back to school, or if they do, they've already lost that time, all because they didn't have access period products at school.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like Amani, Margaret Schedler approached her school about stocking the bathrooms with period products. She's a junior at The Altamont School, a private college prep school in Birmingham, Ala. Schedler says the administration was receptive to the idea, and agreed to her plan to have her school club raise money for the project. The school provides, and pays for, menstrual products to students in the front office and nurse's office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-58806\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2021/12/period-products-ljohnson-v2artboard-1_sq-fa6fed506d1c8463b8edafd3d3c438774bd03a24-160x160.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"160\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2021/12/period-products-ljohnson-v2artboard-1_sq-fa6fed506d1c8463b8edafd3d3c438774bd03a24-160x160.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2021/12/period-products-ljohnson-v2artboard-1_sq-fa6fed506d1c8463b8edafd3d3c438774bd03a24.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">Now, Schedler's club, Ladies of Lavender, relies on student donations to provide menstrual products in Altamont's restrooms. Even though the club receives a lot of donations, Schedler says it still feels unfair that the students bear this responsibility, especially because they have to hold donation drives every month, and students often complain that they've already donated supplies in the past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Schools should realize that [menstruation] isn't a choice,\" Schedler argues. \"And if they want to support menstruating citizens, they should do the bare minimum and make sure that public- and state-funded places have period products that people can use.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cost is often cited as a factor when considering whether to provide widespread access to these products. \u003ca href=\"https://www.freethetampons.org/\">Free the Tampon\u003c/a>, an advocacy group focused on getting period products in state budgets, estimates that it costs\u003ca href=\"https://www.freethetampons.org/uploads/1/1/9/6/119665890/kit_for_schools.pdf\"> $5-7 per year per student \u003c/a>to supply period products. Advocates working with the Office of Legislative Services in New Jersey are estimating the cost of the recent law requiring schools to provide period products to students in public schools at about $750,000 per year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates say the costs bring benefits for students. A pilot program in New York City\u003ca href=\"https://www.today.com/health/free-tampons-some-nyc-public-schools-will-provide-feminine-hygiene-t80766\"> found that attendance increased by 2.4%\u003c/a> among girls at a city high school after making tampons and pads available in its restrooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others argue that the question of cost sidesteps a larger point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Menstrual products should be treated in the same way you treat restocking toilet paper,\" says Michele Anzabi, one of the presidents of the PERIOD chapter at the University of Pennsylvania. \"It's a medical necessity and therefore, it shouldn't be hindered by conversations about cost, but treated as something that needs to be addressed.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2021 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=The+case+for+free+tampons+and+pads+in+schools&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/mindshift/58802/the-case-for-free-tampons-and-pads-in-schools","authors":["byline_mindshift_58802"],"categories":["mindshift_21445"],"tags":["mindshift_21093","mindshift_21160","mindshift_1038"],"featImg":"mindshift_58803","label":"mindshift"}},"programsReducer":{"possible":{"id":"possible","title":"Possible","info":"Possible is hosted by entrepreneur Reid Hoffman and writer Aria Finger. Together in Possible, Hoffman and Finger lead enlightening discussions about building a brighter collective future. The show features interviews with visionary guests like Trevor Noah, Sam Altman and Janette Sadik-Khan. 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