Move aside the millennials, welcome the glow kids of Gen X – hijacked day and night by the screen, always available socially but find it tough to make eye contact and have a sit-down conversation with a human.
The digital landscape has changed adolescence and the classroom. Technology is used as a crutch, a replacement of real life relationships which help one develop socially.
According to the World Health Organisation, one in eight kids in urban India suffers clinical anxiety or depression before the age of 18-years. And that’s a huge number. We’re not using ‘anxiety’ as a buzzword. We’re talking about the real, tangible clinical illness which often needs more than medication to tide over.
Here are 7 myths about anxiety disorders which you need to STOP believing.