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The great rewiring: is social media really behind an epidemic of teenage mental illness?

Two things need to be said after reading The Anxious Generation. First, this book is going to sell a lot of copies, because Jonathan Haidt is telling a scary story about children’s development that many parents are primed to believe.

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