Oprah Winfrey

That's why, you know, what we're going to discuss here, I think, very important, but...

You have to read the book in order to understand what's happening to your brain and your child's brain, you know, with social media and with the devices.

Thank you for listening to the Oprah podcast.

When we come back, Dr. Limke explains what she calls digital drugs and why they are toxic for children's developing brains.

Hello to you and welcome back to the Oprah Podcast.

I'm talking with Dr. Anna Lemke, Stanford psychiatrist and author of the New York Times bestseller, Dopamine Nation.

It is a must read for parents.

I'm telling you, if you don't understand what's going on with your kids and their phones, you gotta read this.

Let's get back to our conversation.

I wanna show a piece of tape now that we put together.

Take a look at this.

That's really hard to watch.

So my cousin said the same thing happened with her 17-year-old.

Yeah.

Tried to take the phone away.

He was in the middle of a gaming session and cursing her out and all those things.

What is happening in the brain when a child is experiencing those kinds of tantrums, a child, a teenager, a young adult?

What's going on in the brain in that moment?

So based upon what we've shared here so far, when you are trying to communicate with a child who is dysregulated, you absolutely cannot.

And so you have to wait until that child gets regulated or calms down.