Devorah Heitner
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1 series
first heard Oct 2018
last heard 17 Oct
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I think that's also really important.
So the openness, I think, is a good thing.
The destigmatization is really good.
And we want to make sure that kids who are really struggling, like if your kid has been an inpatient, if your kid has doing intensive outpatient.
therapy, like that's not a kid who should have tons and tons of online unstructured time to just be wherever.
I would work it like say you had a kid coming home from the hospital, I would work with their team to figure out a safe reentry plan for tech.
Um, including just managing the flood of getting back on tech if they had their phone sort of away taken away during this time, like 'cause that's a really intense experience to come back to three thousand texts or whatever.
if you have a kid who was really plugged in beforehand and so
Again, it's not to say that we want to remove all these sources of support and our kids may experience these, you know, mental health spaces or other connected spaces online.
Again, maybe it's a Discord server, maybe it's a social media group they're on, maybe it's just a group text with their besties as really supportive.
And that may be the case, but we still may want to help them balance that with some other pursuits, again, especially if they are in crisis or coming out of crisis.
I think for kids who are not in crisis and are kind of just weathering the ups and downs pretty well, you still want to make sure to be like helping them remember to unplug at night.
making sure they get that habit of turning off devices at night and getting some sleep 'cause that's so crucial for mental and physical health.
And all of these things are so stimulating.
Like being in a intense conversation on a group text is stimulating.
And so it's not what you need to be doing to three in the morning.
There's actually a a great YouTube by Daniel Siegel, uh whose book, Brainstorm, is really great, but he has a really nice YouTube.
I'll send you a link that's about five minutes that really talks about myelination and the process adolescents go through in coming of age.
And how this is a time to really focus on what you love because what you love is really getting reinforced in what you specialize in.
So if you think about like, I love dance and I also love TikTok, but what do you want your brain to grow toward?
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