David Thomas, LMSW
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 3 Apr
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Whoa.
And I would say that not making cheerleading literally is what started me in some leadership positions.
It's what started me giving back to younger kids.
So many of the things that I'm doing in my life today were because I didn't make cheerleading.
And we talk in the book about the great acronym of FAIL is the first attempt in learning.
I would ask parents, where are some places that you can put your kids in activities in contexts where they're not going to do it well?
And so they will not only struggle, but often fail in the process.
And to think about your child's specific kind of proclivities, is it...
sports?
Is it arts?
Is it where do they kind of lean anyway?
But putting them in places where they can experience failure is so important.
Well, we're seeing this trend with kids where really they're diagnosing themselves.
And I started noticing it with girls probably 10 years ago that it felt like they were using the DSM, which we don't diagnose at Daystar in our practice.
But if we were to, it's what we would use to offer a child a diagnosis.
It was like a child would come in and try to convince me that they had clinical depression by kind of ticking off the bullet points of it.
And what has happened now is the primary source of mental health for kids has become TikTok, which is just unbelievable that that's where adolescent girls are going to get their information.
And in fact...
They are diagnosing themselves so much.
I had this really interesting experience with a teenage girl who came in and told me she had what's called tic disorder.
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