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In reply to the discussion: My 16 year old daughters letter to the Editor got published in our major paper today! No more fear! [View all]VOX
(22,976 posts)Her words brought to mind a new concern: all this blunt existential apprehension and anxiety obviously cant be healthy for kids during their more impressionable years.
If their young minds must remain so hypervigilant to just get through each school day, the stress could cut neural pathways that trigger anxiety, which in turn generates avoidance behaviors.
On top of all the lives taken and the physical injuries inflicted as direct result of these endless shootings, what the hell will happen when the psychological damage begins to more fully emerge, and kids develop debilitating behavioral disorders in epidemic numbers?
Your daughter is amazingly perceptive. Im so sorry that she has to live in such fear on a daily basis. But never give up, ever.