Snapshot · The School of Greatness
Dr. Shefali cited alarming statistics: 8-year-olds on diets, 11-year-olds addicted to porn, and infinite numbers of girls self-harming and experiencing body dysmorphia and suicidal ideation.
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Dr. Shefali pulls no punches in painting the scale of the crisis. She rattles through the data points: 8-year-olds on diets, 11-year-olds already addicted to pornography, massive numbers of girls self-harming, body dysmorphia and suicidal ideation becoming commonplace, and — the number that lands hardest — boys and males completing suicide at four times the rate of girls and women. She frames the loneliness epidemic as the invisible thread running through all of it. We are not paying attention, she says, as a culture: we leap from social media to AI to super AI without pausing to ask what each new escalation is doing to the children inside these systems. Writing two books — one for sons and one for daughters — was her way of forcing that pause.
Males are four times more likely than females to complete suicide, according to Dr. Shefali Tsabary's presentation of the youth mental health data.
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