The Dramatic Rise in Youths with Mental Health Challenges

Alex Newman is an award-winning international freelance journalist, author, researcher, educator and consultant. He is senior editor for The New American. He is Founder and CEO of Liberty Sentinel and a national syndicator of radio and TV programs including Behind the Deep State which airs on WVCY Television and VCY.tv. Alex has authored or co-authored numerous articles and books including Indoctrinating Our Children To Death and his most recent Woke and Weaponized: How Karl Marx Won the Battle for Americana Education and How We Can Win it Back. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, there is a severe youth mental health crisis unfolding in the United States. Youth increasingly have persistent sadness, depression, hopelessness and even increasing thoughts of ending their life by means of suicide. What is driving this? Why do these numbers continue to grow especially since academia has been promoting for years Social Emotional Learning or SEL? Could social media be playing into this? Or what about gaming into which some are immersing themselves multiple hours every day and well into the night while relationships and direct verbal communication with others is on the decline? What is driving this dramatic rise in youths with mental health challenges?

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The Dramatic Rise in Youths with Mental Health Challenges is an episode from Crosstalk America from VCY America by Jim Schneider.

This episode is 0:53:28 long.

This episode was published on Apr 30, 2026.

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