Dr. Edward Hallowell

It's like my thought experience.

Imagine you're standing in a big, dark warehouse by yourself.

You feel terrified, paranoid.

If you're there with someone, you laugh.

There's something about the presence of another person that instantly, as you put it, lightens the load.

And the next thing you know, you're problem solving.

How do we get out of here?

I take issue with that point.

It's all a matter of how you use it.

My family, for example, uses social media to great advantage.

We have a, you know, I don't know what the word for it is, but we're all on the same little platform and we send each other messages and it facilitates, deepens human connection.

Now, the danger is when it replaces human connection.

That's the danger.

So it's all a matter of how you use it.

I'll tell you a quick story.

Do we have time for a quick story?

Oh, great.

Okay.

Well, so I consulted some 20 years ago to the Harvard Chemistry Department because they had their most gifted graduate student committed suicide and left a note explicitly blaming Harvard.

As we looked into it, the chair of the department, Jim Anderson, a wonderful man,