Does Smartphone Use Contribute to – or Help Combat – Teen Depression?
It’s all in how you use these powerful devices.
By David Levine, Contributor |Sept. 22, 2017, at 2:32 p.m.
Many apps can be “enormously helpful, especially to the socially isolated person who is not comfortable seeing a mental health provider.” (Hero Image/ Getty Images)
Aristotle was a firm believer in the law of non contradiction, which says that an idea and its opposite cannot be both true at the same time. But Aristotle never had a smartphone. Research has increasingly shown that smartphone use can contribute to depression, especially in teenagers. At the same time, smartphones are offering many virtual ways to help prevent and treat depression and other mental illnesses successfully.
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