Tag Archives: mental health
By all standards and metrics, America has a mental health crisis. Not only that, but it also has a moral crisis. The number of people who are seeking help for unwanted behaviors and emotions is growing by leaps and bounds. What is more, the link between mental health and spiritual health is undeniable.
Most parents and teachers have noticed the severe increase in depression and anxiety among young children and teenagers over the last decade. Many have speculated that smartphones and social media cause these mental health and behavior problems. It turns out that they were right.
Posted in Media Watch
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Tagged American Privacy Rights Act, Cathy McMorris Rodgers, children, Children and Teens’ Online Privacy Protection Act, Clare Morell, Ethics and Public Policy Center, Instagram, Jonathan Haidt, Kids Online Safety Act, legislation, mental health, New York Times, Pinterest, Protecting Kids from Social Media Act, Snapchat, social media, Spotify, TikTok, Twitter, YouTube
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Right now, there is a concerted effort to change the American public’s attitude towards psychedelic drugs. Turn on Netflix, Hulu, or other streaming services, and you’re likely to find shows and documentaries on the usefulness of drugs like LSD (acid), DMT (spirit molecule), MDMA (ecstasy or mollies), and psilocybin (magic mushrooms). These shows are the first public signs that we are being primed to accept the recreational and “prescription” use of psychedelics to solve both our mental and spiritual ills.
Posted in Drugs/Alcohol/Addictions
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Tagged Drug Enforcement Administration, ecstasy, Edward Bernays, Hulu, LSD, magic mushrooms, marijuana, mental health, mollies, Netflix, psilocybin, psychedelics, Robert Worchester, Schedule 1 drugs, schizophrenia, Sigmund Freud, spirit molecule
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Our ability to protect children from sexual exploitation is declining every day. The environment has become sexually saturated. Prime-time programs on broadcast television promote casual sex, even for teens. Pornography is impossible to avoid short of disconnecting all electronics. Standards of dress and conduct have become eroticized. Societal taboos about sexual experimentation have severely eroded, and internal inhibitions have steeply declined.
Posted in Child Exploitation, Marriage/Family/Culture, Pornography, Sexuality, Uncategorized
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Tagged child molestor, child sexual abuse, children, groomer, mental health, pedophile, Predators, psychology, psychopath, Securing Our Future, sexual abuse, sexual experimentation
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Every child in Illinois government schools will be subjected to intrusive “mental health” screenings and data-gathering schemes starting this fall under a controversial new state law, opening the door for further mass-medicalization and surveillance of children as well as huge profits for politicians’ Big Pharma campaign donors. Critics are sounding the alarm.
Posted in Education
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Tagged ADHD, Big Pharma, Dr. Peter Breggin, Dr. Tony Sanders, Illinois Board of Education, Lindsey LaPointe, mental health, Prozac, u.s. department of education, Universal mental health screening, Wellness Checks in Schools Program Act
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Much of Generation Z is heading into adulthood, and we’re realizing that being an adult is hard, a bit scary, and often unenjoyable. Anxiety and fear are incredibly high among Gen Z-ers, also known as Zoomers. I saw an article last month reporting that 86% of Generation Z has “menu anxiety,” or overwhelming anxiety about eating out. Another article published in November reports that Gen Z is having difficulty adjusting to the demands of a 9-5 work week.
Everyone knows social media has negative effects. It’s the topic of countless articles, films have been made on it, people constantly discuss it, and it’s generally considered a bipartisan issue. Warning cries about social media have been sounded so often that they have become background music, even though it isn’t even 50 years old.
A recent study from Denmark adds to concerns about the impact of marijuana upon users’ mental health. According to a Wall Street Journal op-ed by psychologist Susan Pinker, a mammoth study of the health records of all 6.5 million Danes over a 26-year period showed a strong correlation between cannabis (marijuana) use disorder and various mental health diagnoses.
New technology tends to follow a cycle. When it's first introduced, it's only for the elite (or the geeks) that are rich enough (or nerdy enough) to buy it. Then, as everyday people begin to notice the ways it benefits their elite or geeky friends, they start to jump on the bandwagon. As the technology gains widespread acceptance, it's commended as "trendy" by its supporters and denounced as a "fad" by its opponents.
Posted in Faith, Marriage/Family/Culture, Media Watch, next gen
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Tagged Adam, anxiety, depression, dominion, mental health, Noah, social media, U.S. Surgeon General
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Voluntary enlistment in the military provides an honorable career to many individuals, both male and female. With the establishment of the Selective Service Act, obtaining replacement personnel in catastrophic warfare is possible. Traditionally the draft only included young men ages 18-25. The idea of including women in the draft is recurring, first suggested during World War II for conscripting nurses, Congress rejected the plan in 1945. President Jimmy Carter revised the idea in 1980, which again was denied by Congress. In 1981, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that allowing women in the draft was illegal since women could not serve …
Posted in Federal, Marriage/Family/Culture
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Tagged Department of Defense, Jimmy Carter, Joseph Heck, mental health, Naomi Parker, National Defense Authorization Act, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, RAND Corporation, Rosie the Riveter, Selective Services, sexual assault, Women in the Draft
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On July 29th, Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker announced new COVID-19 restrictions on youth sports statewide for the upcoming school year. Starting August 15, only “low-risk” sports like tennis, baseball, cross country, swimming and golf will be allowed, but “medium” and “high” risk sports, including football, wrestling, soccer and competitive cheering will not be allowed. The governor’s office released a list of sports ranked in terms of their risk for COVID-19 transmittal.
During his coronavirus update last Wednesday, Gov. Pritzker explained,
This isn’t news that anyone wants to hear. But this virus remains dangerous to kids and parents and grandparents, teachers
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Here are just two of the countless unbearable stories of sorrow and regret that the mainstream press doesn’t want to tell. Here are just two of the many nightmarish stories that “gender therapists,” cosmetic surgeons, urologists, endocrinologists, pharmaceutical companies, and vocal coaches who profit from the confusion of children don’t want you to hear. Here are the accounts of bone-deep anguish from young people who feel betrayed by adults who facilitated the chemical and surgical ravaging of their once whole and healthy bodies:...
[Last] month Governor Butch Otter signed a law making Idaho the fifth state to mandate that women getting a medical (drug-induced) abortion be told that the abortion may possibly be stopped after the first dose if the woman changes her mind about having the abortion. This abortion reversal process involves taking the hormone progesterone to counteract the first abortion drug mifepristone and before taking the second drug misoprostol 36-72 hours later that causes expulsion of the unborn baby.