Philosopher David Hume defines a miracle as an event that breaks a law of nature. But, because the laws of nature are never broken, miracles do not exist. Is that a sound argument? Not according to Donghwi Kim. Hume on miracles? Fallacious reasoning?
stressed, they are also taking that on and experiencing increased stress as well. there is another survey by education week. it found that 44% of gen z has felt down and depressed, just in a last two weeks. breaking the highest in comparison to other generations. i mean, doctor kim, you heard matt riddle in that last segment having his daughter go through two mass shootings in 15 months. what are some of the signs that parents can be on the lookout for, and how can parents help navigate the mental health struggles of 13 children? i think for sure, the parents have to keep a line of communication open with their teens. sometimes, we characterize adolescents as a time where they don t want to talk to their parents, or they don t want their parents involved. certainly, we see the increased focus on the peer relationships. parents should realize that when research really shows that he needs to care about their parents and what their parents think, really keeping those lines of communic
notice if your young teen is actually becoming more irritable, not sleeping well, being able to remove themselves from their peer relationships, those are warning signs for parents to pay attention. really, what teens no, and what i love so much about emma s father in that previous segment, is talking about how he just put the communication open and really constantly saying, we support you. we are here for you. we love you. those things are so critical for parents, even if the teens don t seem to take those messages and, you still have to say them. you know, dr. kim, this is just the tip of the iceberg, sadly. i want to thank you, dr. kimberly schonert-reichl, for taking the time to join us. i want to have you come back, because we need to break down more of this cdc reports. thank you for being here this morning. thank you so much, katie. and if you or someone you know is struggling with suicidal thoughts or mental health matters, please call the
dr. kim, that was so hard to listen to. you consider that alarming cdc report we were just talking about, noting teen girls are twice as likely than boys to consider suicide. why? why are teenage girls suffering at such stalking numbers? katie, thank you so much for having me on today. this is very concerning. the crisis is clearly there for these young females. i think there are several reasons. i was really thinking about the ideas of the social media. the constant flow of social media and also what research finds is that girls and women are actually, they have higher levels of empathy. you can imagine constantly being bombarded with seeing other peoples pain and feeling like there is nothing to do about it. that sense of hopelessness. so, it s so critical that we really pay attention, to figure out what is happening, and how we can actually mitigate these problems. we do know these problems can be prevented. girls are also almost twice