In a new study, researchers found that cumulative exposure to screen time from childhood to adolescence worsened stress and depression—but physical activity improved it.
In the study, Finnish children aged 6-9 were followed up after eight years to collect data on their exercise, sedentary behavior, screen time, sleep, and diet from childhood to adolescence. The study included self-reported measures as well as device-recorded ones.
Higher screen time and mobile device use were associated with higher stress and depression scores, while more exercise was associated with lower stress and depression scores.
“These findings underscore the significance of reducing screen time and increasing physical activity to promote mental health in youth,” the researchers write.
The study was conducted by a group of Finnish researchers led by Eero A. Haapala at the University of Jyväskylä and the University of Eastern Finland, and published in JAMA Network Open.
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Research, except for a comprehensive exposition of the type Robert Whittaker undertook, has no value in a critique of psychiatry because a true critique of psychiatry is actually a critique of the whole of society and it’s socially conditioned social consciousness, and such a critique depends on comprehensive knowledge of the whole, not the scattered insights gleaned from research. You don’t see that you need the whole fucking picture. You never give it on this website. You give microdetail. There are exceptions: a handful of articles have situated their critique in relation to society as a whole, but this ought to be in every article which if giving new information or research should be situating that research within a comprehensive discussion in relation to the whole. What I am saying is simple in practice but hard to put into words, yet it is so obvious. Imagine getting a letter from a daughter abroad and all she ever did was tell you one piece of new news and that’s it. You’d want to understand that news in relation to the whole of her life. Same too with your critique of psychiatry, and when you fail to do this what you write is uninteresting and entirely lacks relevance, saliency. And the reason you can’t see this is precisely because you approach every problem through the fragmentary intellect, the dissecting intellect, the socially conditioned mental apparatus which IS THE MOTHER OF PSYCHIATRY ALSO. Only a human, sensuous, emotional, perceptive analysis of society and psychiatry is a real one. The intellect destroys it all and turns us all into puppets of this vampire infested society. Amen.
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“And the reason you can’t see this is precisely because you approach every problem through the fragmentary intellect, the dissecting intellect, the socially conditioned mental apparatus which IS THE MOTHER OF PSYCHIATRY ALSO. Only a human, sensuous, emotional, perceptive analysis of society and psychiatry is a real one. The intellect destroys it all and turns us all into puppets of this vampire infested society. Amen.”
Amen is right, No-one.
You have a way of beautifully articulating the essence of the mess psychiatry continually perpetrates.
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