To the editor: "Fearmongering" is bad, but the opposite can be far worse. A case in point is the recent op-ed article debating the cause of our country's mental health crisis. ("Does social media rewire kids' brains? Here’s what the science really says," Opinion, April 26) Depression, suicide and psychiatric hospitalization rates among youth "hockey sticked" upward around 2012 and kept rising. New York University social psychologist Jonathan Haidt's recent book corroborated what we all felt:... Read this story
