#if a kid in your family starts self-harming whenever they're not playing on a device; its most likely not the tech. | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

red-revival · 26 days ago

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There are definitely things to be concerned abt with kids tech use and how devices are designed now in a way that takes advantage of this for profit.

However. Some of these stories are very obviously to me not a technology issue, but a mental health issue. Whatever tech problem they're dealing with probably isnt helping maybe exasperating it or an unhealthy way to cope with it sure but I really dont think tech is the root cause there...

#if a kid in your family starts self-harming whenever they're not playing on a device; its most likely not the tech.#bring them to a doctor or a therapist. please. chances are theres something else going on and the tech is a coping mechanism/distraction #if that kid were born a decade earlier they'd still be like this with books or art or puzzles or whatever non-electronic activity #I know because I was that kid. with books; with art; with colouring books; puzzles; running around in circles; anything at all #I had undiagnosed/untreated ADHD. at 10 I developed severe depression; which also went untreated because I wasn't taken seriously abt it.#and it was never the books or the art or the puzzles or colouring or running or hell even a DS that was the problem.#they were coping mechanisms and distractions; and while it was unhealthy to be completely reliant on them; they weren't the root cause #just a desperate grasp for any stimulation to fill up my brain so there wouldnt be room for suicidal ideation

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