Screen Time and Teenagers: What the Research Actually Says
Ask five people about teenagers and screens and you’ll get five confident, contradictory opinions — it’s rotting their brains, or it’s a moral panic no different from past worries about television and comic books. As a psychotherapist working with teenagers and their families, I sit somewhere more useful than either extreme: the honest, slightly messier […]
Is Your Phone Making Your Anxiety Worse?
Here’s a pattern I see constantly in the therapy room. Someone comes in feeling anxious — wired, restless, struggling to switch off. We explore what’s going on in their life. And somewhere in the conversation, almost as an aside, they mention that they check their phone “constantly,” scroll for hours without meaning to, and sleep […]