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Technology is potentially harming students mental health. With blue light causing a lack of sleep and possibly other issues, clickbait and fake news misinforming students, and Photoshopped pictures of models and celebrities causing youth to develop body dysmorphia, it's leading our generation down a dark hall. If we limit screen time, youth and teens will have a likely increase in mental health, happiness, and face-to-face interactions.

Blue light, although referred to as a singularity, is not just a single shade of cerulean. Blue light is a large section on the light spectrum that is used to light up phones and computers everywhere. Although environmentally friendly, it is harmful to your eyes and has been proven to have an effect on the amount you sleep. According to a study done by Amit Shai Green and his team, looking at screens with intense blue light cut sleep time by 16 minutes and increased the likelihood that one would wake up in the middle of the night. Another study done by Harvard quotes "While light of any kind can suppress the secretion of melatonin, blue light at night does so more powerfully. Harvard researchers and their colleagues conducted an experiment comparing the effects of 6.5 hours of exposure to blue light to exposure to green light of comparable brightness. The blue light suppressed melatonin for about twice as long as the green light and shifted circadian rhythms by twice as much (3 hours vs. 1.5 hours)." Blue light causes a cut in sleep. It has been proven that sleep and mental health are directly related. In an article done for Scientific American Mind, Tori Rodriguez talks about how when students got less sleep, they showed increases in mental health problems. If we cut out screens before bed, then our brains can wind down and we can sleep without stress.

Clickbait is a common tactic used by companies trying to promote a product. Clickbait, as it sounds, is a link with a flashing ad that entices you to click on it. Fake headlines and stories are often accompanied by clickbait photos. Students, attracted to these titles and photos, read news stories that didn't actually happen. This misinformation is potentially harming students academic progress. If a student falls behind due to misinformation, or fails a science test because of the article they found on Instagram, stress levels will increase. As stress rises, it is less likely you will be in the positive mindset. According to one study by Stanford University, students in K-12 are extremely bad at determining fact from fiction (Turner, 2016). What the researchers found even more shocking was that some of the most easily confused "news" articles presented by the study conductors were actual advertisements found on websites. When a student gets fake science news, their grades could go down because they genuinely thought one thing. That could increase stress for sure. Identifying clickbait is a skill, and they will not know how to use that skill later in life, leading to misinformed decisions. When this threat is eliminated, as well as if you are taught how to avoid it, then it is increasingly more likely that students will be stressed about that fake science answer. When we leave technology behind for a while, clickbait news is no longer a threat.

Social media is a blessing and a curse. While it is an easy way to connect with friends, see what's happening in a celebrity's life, and goof around for a while, it has its fair share of downsides. There are millions of users across the globe, and any one of them can find your profile. They can message you privately and bring you down, telling you that you're fat or that something's wrong with the way that you look. To pair with that, photoshopped pictures of models can cause people to think they're fat or ugly, causing body dysmorphia. Body dysmorphia disorder, or BDD, is defined by Mayo Clinic as a mental disorder in which you can't stop thinking about one or more perceived defects or flaws in your appearance — a flaw that, to others, is either minor or not observable. But you may feel so ashamed and anxious that you may avoid many social situations. While it is not completely known what causes body dysmorphia, your environment is considered a huge factor into it.

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quickly read the minds of the two lackeys,
(From an RP post I was rewording..)

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People with anxiety don’t have a train of thought. We have seven trains on 4 tracks that narrowly avoid each other when the paths cross and all the conductors are screaming.

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“Anger is a justifiable and understandable reaction to being wronged, and as the soul’s first effort to reassert its worth and power, it may initially be healing,” Laura Hillenbrand wrote in an article for Guideposts magazine. “But in time, anger becomes corrosive. To live in bitterness is to be chained to the person who wounded you, your emotions and actions arising not independently, but in reaction to your abuser. Louie became so obsessed with vengeance that his life was consumed by the quest for it. In bitterness, he was as much a captive as he’d been when barbed wire had surrounded him.”

Do you agree? Why or why not?

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“We become active members in the United Nations. After America departed from the UN and war was declared, Canada became neutral in the matter to avoid conflict. It is time we stop being perceived as a pushover country and fight to save ourselves. Yes, I do not agree with how the UN handled the war, but with how violent the survivors of the bombing are, we cannot risk it.” He took a breath. “What I'm getting at, is that with the UN’s supplies, we launch a full-scale attack against America. We purge them all, allowing to rebuild and fix what was lost to the war and expand Canada’s borders.”