Eckhart Tolle points out that 23% of U.S. college students were prescribed antidepressants in one year, linking depression not to existential crisis but to modern life. Constant device use disperses attention and drains energy, especially through endless scrolling. Children now interact with screens from age three or four, which Tolle warns damages consciousness development.
I think 23% of college students in the United States have been prescribed, were prescribed antidepressants last year. In that one year, 23% of college students were prescribed antidepressants. Now depression that a college student experiences is very unlikely to be the dark night of the soul. It can have many reasons, especially in our society where attention is continuously completely dispersed through their devices, that they spend hours on their devices, so a lot of energy is actually lost. People may not realize that, If you spend hours on your phones or other devices, it's an outflow of energy. You give it attention continuously, and an outflow of energy is good when you are creating something. I'm speaking now, it's also an outflow of energy, but it is something helpful, creative. If I spend 2 or 3 hours on my phone scrolling uselessly, There's also— there's actually a leakage of energy, and many young people experience it because some started at the age of 3 or 4 using iPads. It makes the parents' life easier, yes, but it has a terrible effect on the development of consciousness of the child.
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