Smartphones are causing a mental health pandemic. Anxious generation needs weekly digital detox
Smartphones are causing a mental health pandemic. Anxious generation needs weekly digital detox
“Almost every great truth that we get from the ancients about how to live a better life, to become a better person – ‘judge not lest ye be judged’; ‘be slow to anger, be quick to forgive’ – the online life, the social media life, the phone-based life, tells us to do the opposite.” These are the words of Jonathan Haidt, professor of ethical leadership at New York University and author of The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness.
The Anxious Generation makes the case for keeping smart phones out of schools – an idea that has gathered momentum around the world since the book was published a year ago.
But Haidt says it’s not just adolescents suffering from what he calls an addiction to this technology.
