The device debate: Are phones really driving an increase in child and teenage mental health issues, or is it more complicated?

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The device debate: Are phones really driving an increase in child and teenage mental health issues, or is it more complicated?

“As a mental health practitioner, I know devices are not the innocent sources of entertainment or information we might think, so innocent that we willingly give them to children as young as babies. The more I’ve learnt, the more I’ve realised how zombified our devices are making us. It is terrifying,” says psychologist and psychotherapist Dr Charlotte Armitage.