Eckhart Tolle argues that 23% of college students take antidepressants not because of existential crisis but because screens fragment their attention. Children using tablets from age three or four, he says, damages consciousness development and drains their energy.
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 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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