Opinion: Maybe the teen mental health crisis is actually a sleep crisis
With all the discussion around the adolescent mental health crisis, a prime suspect has gone relatively unnoticed: sleep.
With all the discussion around the adolescent mental health crisis, a prime suspect has gone relatively unnoticed: sleep.
I have treated thousands of youths struggling with mental illness over the past 25 years. As a child and adolescent psychiatrist, I have observed a remarkable shift in their everyday habits thanks to screen time. A 2021 report from Common Sense Media found that people between the ages of 13 and 18 spend almost nine hours a day looking at screens.
