Attention, Anxiety and Addiction: Are Smartphones and Social Media to Blame for Kids’ Mental Health?

Do smartphones and social media wreck kids’ lives?

“Anxiety, depression, self-harm levels were pretty stable from the late 90s through 2010,” says Psychologist Jonathan Haidt, author of The Anxious Generation "All of a sudden, the rates go up. Way up.”

But are phones the cause?

I examine both sides in my newest video: