Dr. Drew warns of mental health risks from excessive screen time for America's youth

Fox News' Brian Kilmeade and Dr. Drew Pinsky discussed nan summation of bullying successful schools that has been exacerbated by societal media connected "One Nation pinch Brian Kilmeade." 

Kilmeade highlighted a study showing that teenagers who walk little clip online person amended intelligence health. 

He asked whether nan summation successful bullying "everywhere" is owed to phones and cameras aliases if it is imaginable that group are becoming "more cruel." 

"It's really difficult to tell," Pinsky said.

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"We don't know, are nan algorithms serving this worldly up to america because we looked astatine it once, aliases is this really happening? My suspicion is it's really happening. It is sad. If personification is manifesting that benignant of aggression, they person to beryllium dealt pinch a precocious grade of containment to thief them — not to wounded nan individual, to thief them," he said. "You're not allowed to inquire thing of anybody, truthful you can't show an addict, for instance, who's dying of their progressive illness to travel pinch me, aliases don't slumber there, aliases possibly you mightiness want to effort thing else. You can't opportunity thing to anybody, and that harms group truthful much."

In different study, nan Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recovered that from 2011 to 2021, nan percent of teenage girls emotion sad aliases hopeless had accrued from 36% to 57%, while nan percent for teenage boys had accrued from 21% to 29%. 

Congress is besides trying to reside nan suspected relationship betwixt one's intelligence wellness and societal media use.

According to nan Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), from 2011 to 2021 nan number of teenage girls emotion sad aliases hopeless has increased.

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Earlier successful February, nan Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing called "Protecting Our Children Online" connected kids' online safety. 

Sens. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., and Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., pledged to "act swiftly" to reside "Big Tech's ongoing harms to kids."

Pinsky agreed that one's "mental wellness is enhanced" pinch a simplification of surface time. 

"I deliberation wrong 10 years we will look astatine these things — these phones correct present pinch maine successful beforehand of nan table — nan measurement we looked astatine baccy astatine 1 clip successful nan past," he said.

Kilmeade asked Pinsky wherever he stood connected Sen. Josh Hawley's, R-Mo., proposed legislation focused connected safeguarding minors connected societal media platforms.

"I person tons of friends that really specialize successful screens for adolescents, and they each do nan aforesaid point pinch their kids," Pinsky said. "Limit [social media use] to an hour, max 2 hours a day."

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The projected authorities by Hawley would instrumentality a minimum property request of 16 for societal media users.