Solutions happen when uncomfortable conversations occur; your children and mine are counting on our ability to address what we have done to an entire generation honestly.

Look at what we have done; an entire generation is full of anxiety, depression, and suicide rates at historic highs. We allowed social cues to confuse, divide and seek blame on someone else’s stripping away any personal responsibility. Our children, alongside young adults, are deprived of their belief in self-dignity or the pride that comes with it. Instead, we created safe spaces allowing a disconnected generation resulting in an alarming loss of empathy and self-regulation.

The evidence is that we have done a great disservice to our children and young adults. These alarming mass shootings, the death of one hundred thousand Americans in the past year, and suicide rates never seen before in America’s history must stop.

We created a mental health crisis in our children and young adults, for we have been medicating our children from toddlers to adulthood with no regard for side effects. At the same time, therapists, teachers, and parents only seemed to care whether a child or young adult is subdued and compliant.

Psychologist. Therapists, Schools, and Parents created a drug-addicted society under mental health guidance. Instead of building human connections, humility, empathy, and self-esteem, grounding our children in a community. We must end the over prescriptions that numbs our children.

Yes, we must find solutions, but it’s not going to happen with new gun legislation; that’s just tired talking points from feckless politicians that refuse to recognize their policies caused this, not guns.

I want to address the mass shootings, but I start in a place of reality without rose-colored glasses on. Instead, I will move legislation forward that targets the overprescribing of mind-numbing drugs and the social disconnection in our children’s schools.

In my opinion, if we don’t look at mental health and the causes never seen before in previous generations, we will continue to see mass shootings and a generation disconnected from humanity.

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