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- 1. Social Media, Young People, & Mental Health Connect Relate Recover Book Ambra to Speak/Train ambrawatkins.org/speaker
- 2. Anxiety and depression are markedly higher than in any other time in history. – Jean Twenge, PhD Studies Show Don’t let anyone tell you differently!
- 3. The Statistics are Sobering
- 5. Causes “As with many mental health conditions, the exact cause of anxiety disorders isn’t fully understood.” — Mayo Clinic Biological … Emotional … Physiological … Philosophical … Spiritual … Cultural … Unclear Multifaceted Fueled by Pharmaceutical Companies
- 6. Our social context shapes our internal consciousness. – David F. Wells The World We Live In Modernism (‘30s – ’50s) • Order • Rationality • Construction • Certainty Postmodernism (‘60s - ?) • Fragmentation • Instability • Deconstruction • Ambivalence
- 7. “Even though human beings and societies have steadily adapted to change, on average, the rate of technological change is now accelerating so fast that it has risen above the average rate at which most people can absorb all these changes. Many of us cannot keep pace anymore, ‘And that is causing social angst.’” – Thomas L Friedman, Thank you for Being Late “ Unprecedented Change 1
- 8. Societal Disconnects Everything is about power, control, manipulation, and domination. Use people or be used in the pursuit of self-fulfillment. We face senseless violence, critical foreign relations pressures, and a new cold- blooded form of terrorism – ISIS. Technologies that seemed like science fiction not too long ago present us with mind-boggling moral and ethical questions. Our country’s leaders have a long list of issues with no potential resolution, big issues that threaten to destroy our children’s financial security. 2
- 9. Spiritual Disconnects • 1 out of 3 millennials self- identify as ”Nones” • 3 out of 5 young Christians disconnect from church life after age 15 • People are rejecting formal religion in favor of creating their own spirituality • 60% of millennials claimed moral rights and wrongs are a matter of individual opinion (2011) o Yet even though fewer in number, millennial Christians are serious about their faith Our ability to pass down moral tradition and our faith in orthodox Christianity has been horribly crippled by our inability to communicate with generations radically changed by globalization and technology. 3
- 10. Uncertain Times There are fifty million twentysomethings in the United States, most of whom are living with a staggering, unprecedented amount of uncertainty . . . and uncertainty makes people anxious. – Meg Jay, The Defining Decade “ 4
- 11. The Internet • Screen nav impedes: – reading comprehension – information retention – focus • Potentially rewires brain • Promotes need for instant gratification • Creates paralysis in decision making • Distracts from mindfulness Social Media • Sets up unrealistic expectations • Pressures us to keep up • Isolates • Encourages to focus on ourselves • Excludes • Creates culture of shame Technology 5
- 13. Self- Esteem Movement Parenting Styles Cultural Relativism Trends & Phenomena Shaping the Generation In addition to globalization and the technology explosion, other factors are shaping the millennials and GenZers and contributing to the rise in anxiety and depression.
- 14. Unmet Expectations Pressured to Perform Isolated & Lonely Lack Key Life Skills The Millennial Predicament
- 15. How Do I Know There is Hope? • My personal journey with Bryce • 15 years of experience in project and change management • A passion for helping others navigate their intergenerational journeys to spiritual and mental health
- 16. We Need Guideposts to Hope • Guideposts to intergenerational understanding • Guideposts to mental and spiritual health • Guideposts to a world where those with mental disorders are viewed no differently than those with chronic physical illness
- 17. Step 1 - Connect •TrustYourInstincts If you suspect a mental health disorder: 1. Decompress any potentially explosive situation 2. Discuss the problem with someone you trust 3. Consult a trusted physician to rule out physical illness 4. Find a psychiatrist and/or therapist with expertise in anxiety and depression 5. If you don’t connect with your psychiatrist, find another; if the treatment proves ineffective, look for something different 6. Assess physical and spiritual health and develop healthy ways of managing the pressures of college
- 18. Step 2 - Relate •TellStories Engage in dialogue with people in your life from all generations to: • Accomplish a more stable sense of self • Filter out the noise of technology and the Information Age • Think about the big life questions • Attain real world life skills • Initiate a stronger, clearer conversation about prevention and recovery
- 19. Step 3 - Recover •EmbarkontheJourney Set your sites on these guideposts:
- 20. Hope I discovered that while it is good to know a person, to understand them is better. And while it is good to know ourselves, to understand ourselves is better. And the bridge to understanding ourselves, our children, and each other in this rapidly changing world that has so distanced the generations is communication. The interchange of ideas gives us context for discovery. Thus, intergenerational dialogue promises to go a long way in helping us repair the societal and spiritual disconnects and learn to live healthier, richer lives. – Ambra Watkins, Escape from Dark Places “
- 21. The place to go, no matter how young or old, to explore what it means to be happy and to find your true self!
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- I’m wondering how many of you here this evening are anguishing because there is a millennial in your life who is plagued by anxiety. Maybe they experience panic attacks. Maybe they are in despair because they feel isolated and lonely. Maybe they are simply struggling to grow up? I suspect that being the loving and generous people you are, you want to support them, but you don’t know how. In the next 20 minutes we’re going to explore how Escape from Dark Places: Guideposts to Hope in an Age of Anxiety and Depression can help you connect, relate, and recover: To connect across generations To build lasting intergenerational relationships that empower And to play a leading role in preventing anxiety and depression and supporting recovery.
- Twenge Psychologist at San Diego State. Renowned for her research in generational theory She's analyzed data collected from millions of people over the last half century. Uses empirical research to strengthen the case for generational theory. Twenge conducted fourteen studies of generational differences in personalities involving 1.2 million people (2006). Based on those studies, she predicts in Generation Me that two cohorts, Generation Y and Z in aggregate, will have a difficult time growing up. Uses personality scores that date back to the 1960s to measure such personality traits as narcissism and self-esteem
- Earliest extant anxiety-related writings are from the fourth century Greek physician Hippocrates Robert Burton English scholar at Oxford (1621) documents Hippocrates’s description of a patient’s symptoms Medical science silent until Kierkegaard and Freud wrote papers in 1844 and 1920, respectively. As late as 1947, there were only 3 academic papers published on anxiety Added Anxiety to the third edition of the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (1980) DSM And by 1999, Paxil was FDA approved and on the market In 20 years, the number of diagnoses escalated from minuscule to approximately twenty million. READ p.182
- I CONTEND that the rise in anxiety and depression is rooted in historical and social change. LENS Generational Theory is a field of study that can illuminate our understanding of anxiety and depression in light of historical and cultural change. The people we spend the most time with during our formative years share common values. Core values remain largely unchanged: influence decisions, lifestyle preferences, and even career choices throughout our lives Value lies in its ability to categorize birth cohorts by identifying events, trends, and other cultural phenomena that shaped them and then to describe the characteristics and behaviors of each group. GT - The avenue to understanding what makes a group of people tick.
- Age of Acceleration (globalization + market + (“climate change, population growth, and biodiversity”) “of five to seven years from the time something is introduced to being ubiquitous” DRAW On Board
- There is much to be anxious about. We can’t ignore social and spiritual disconnects—the stakes are high.
- TWENGE: We found that if you look at baby boomers in the '60s compared to millennials in more recent times, millennials are much more likely to say that they think they're above average. % graduated with A has doubled performance is the same but more people feel good about themselves 2x expect graduate degree, compared to boomers in the 70s. but reality the same. Collide with reality can lead to anxiety and depression people who score high in self-esteem are not necessarily any more successful than anybody else, especially when you take into account family background and things like that. You do find some effect that, for example, kids who do well in school develop high self-esteem. But the way our culture thinks about it is you should build up self-esteem for no particular reason. You're special just for being you, and that will lead to good things. It doesn't work that way. That puts the cart before the horse.
- As the seeds of postmodernism began to sprout and grow, however, Evangelicalism faltered, and as the doctrinal boundaries faded, the theology weakened, and the church began to look more like a business or a psychologist’s office than a place of worship, with all its strategies for attracting consumers and therapeutic tools for finding inner peace and self-satisfaction. “In a period of but a few years, it was decided that there was no longer any genuine truth, only truths; no principles, only preferences; no grand meaning which is outside of ourselves . . .” Wells, “Rejection,” 1.