{"id":200,"date":"2025-01-04T08:05:34","date_gmt":"2025-01-04T08:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2025\/01\/04\/as-a-child-psychiatrist-i-see-what-smartphones-are-doing-to-kids-mental-health-and-its-terrifying-emily-sehmer-the-guardian\/"},"modified":"2025-01-04T08:05:34","modified_gmt":"2025-01-04T08:05:34","slug":"as-a-child-psychiatrist-i-see-what-smartphones-are-doing-to-kids-mental-health-and-its-terrifying-emily-sehmer-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2025\/01\/04\/as-a-child-psychiatrist-i-see-what-smartphones-are-doing-to-kids-mental-health-and-its-terrifying-emily-sehmer-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"As a child psychiatrist, I see what smartphones are doing to kids\u2019 mental health \u2013 and it\u2019s terrifying | Emily Sehmer | The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>To have access to the amount of information they do at such a young age is having a profound impact on their neurological development. Where in the past we might have received a handful of ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder) referrals each week, we are now inundated. Parents can\u2019t get their children to sleep or sit still. They struggle to concentrate in school and education has taken an all-time hit. As adults, we see how our attention span has been affected in the years since our lives have gone online. I can\u2019t remember the last time I saw someone watch a film without scrolling through their phone or checking their messages. Our brains are changing \u2013 and children are not immune to this.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, our young people are increasingly isolated and insular. The average time that teens spend with friends each day has plummeted by 65% since 2010. For hundreds of years, adolescence has triggered a period of social \u201cpack mentality\u201d. Historically, that might have meant pressure to join a football team or go out with friends. But now, this socialising is happening more and more on WhatsApp groups and social media<br \/>\n\u2014 Read on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2025\/jan\/03\/psychiatrist-children-smartphones-mental-health-harm\">www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2025\/jan\/03\/psychiatrist-children-smartphones-mental-health-harm<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To have access to the amount of information they do at such a young age is having a profound impact on their neurological development. Where in the past we might have received a handful of ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder) referrals each week, we are now inundated. Parents can\u2019t get their children to sleep or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}