Dr. Daniel Amen
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57%.
32% have thought of killing themselves.
Think of that.
Of all?
There's a whole population?
Girls, teenage girls, 32% have thought of killing themselves.
32% of all teenage girls in the United States?
Yes.
24% have planned to kill themselves and 13% have tried.
we're in this mental mess and we have to go, why?
And it's more complicated than just marijuana, but marijuana is clearly part of it.
And part of it are the societal lies that I've seen from the 80s.
So I started my psychiatric residency in 1982, and I trained at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C.,
And 1987, video games started to come out.
And they're like, oh, these are so exciting.
With no neuroscience study on what do video games do to development.
And it's not good.
There's not been great studies to say, oh, yeah, these are really great for brain development.
And then in the early 90s, alcohol is a health food.
My first clinic is in Northern California.