Dr. John Duffy
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736 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Oct 2019
last heard Jan 2025
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Kids are super aware today of the idea of mental illness and mental wellness, mental illness in particular.
They know what it means from a very young age to be depressed or anxious or suicidal.
They certainly know what ADHD is.
They know what the medications for these things are.
Kids play de facto therapists for one another via text or Snapchat or Instagram to
Late into the night, a lot of the time,
unbeknownst to the vast majority of parents.
So there's this empathy that I really admire in them that I do not remember having when I was a kid.
I think I highlight that in the book.
But I think they are taking on emotional challenges that their young minds are entirely unprepared to take on.
And that part worries me quite a bit for these kids because whether they're prepared or not, they're taking them on.
And I think they're doing it in a real stealth way that we moms and dads are having a very hard time tracking.
And so when our child comes to us with attitude, we assume that's attitude.
We assume that's defiance as opposed to the accumulation of all this psychic trouble that they're carrying around.
Absolutely, and they're so much more socially aware, in part because of all the information they have access to, which is, in effect, all the information.
I mean, you know, now that they're carrying the internet around in their hands, and a lot of kids are exceptionally well-informed, so if something's going on somewhere on the planet,
they're aware if there is suffering happening and they feel that in a way that I think a lot of us when we were teenagers were kind of blissfully unaware of.
You know, there's that idea that those teen years are almost by definition egocentric and we're working on developing
a separate identity for ourselves and a sense of confidence and resilience for ourselves.
And that's the challenge of those years.
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