Right now digital well-being support is a luxury good. Wealthy parents hire therapists, buy parental-control suites, and send kids to expensive detox camps. Everyone else gets thoughts and prayers. That is exactly the gap public-health services exist to close. The Surgeon General issued a formal advisory on social media and youth mental health in 2023 because the harms were too widespread to leave to the private market. HHS Making support routine, through schools and clinics, means a kid's access to help stops depending on their parents' income and tech savvy. Mental health care that only exists for the rich is not a system. It is a sorting mechanism.
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