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join the millions of people taking back their privacy >it's my anxiety was constantly like, well, what if i have this? people are going to look at me like i'm crazy. it is a crisis facing our kids at school. >i'll be up until like 3 a.m. on tiktok, just like researching and it's all in their head >and you were self-diagnosing were you diagnosed with any of these never. how a search for answers could make things worse. >too many people can be impacted by one person's opinions or actions. for it to be completely unchecked, and how bay area students provide a safe space for their peers >liz>i'm anne makovec in for elizabeth today, and we are just days away from the first day of school. a lot of students are going to be struggling with more than just homework. things like depression, anxiety and

loneliness. they can all take a toll and parents might not even know about it. today we're going to be talking with a doctor about how to help your kids and hearing from a bay area student who is on a mission to support others. we're going to have those conversations coming up in just a few minutes. but first, a look at your news headlines. no shocker here, but it looks like vice president kamala harris will officially be at the top of the ticket in november. the dnc says she has secured enough delegates to beat the party's presidential nominee. her nomination will become official monday when voting ends. harris is expected to interview vp candidates over the weekend and announce her running mate by monday. chevron is moving its headquarters from the bay area to texas. that comes as the state of california has been suing oil companies, including chevron, accusing them of misleading the public about fossil fuels and climate change. chevron has about 2000 workers in san ramon. the company says those employees supporting california operations will stay a small plane crashed in a remote part of the east bay. it ended up

upside down in the field. the pilot was not injured and nobody else was on board. the alameda county sheriff's office says this happened at around nine this morning, about 15 miles south of the altamont pass. federal agencies are investigating what happened. the city of east palo alto is losing its target store. the retailer says the location at gateway 101 has been underperforming for a while now. it's going to close at the end of this month. target says it's working with employees to find jobs for them at other target stores and the park fire near chico is now the fourth largest wildfire in california history. it's burned an area three and a half times the size of san jose and forced tens of thousands of people to evacuate. it is 24% contained. to our first alert weather. now the sierra is on high alert for possible new fires that is, as there's the threat of thunderstorms. here's first alert. meteorologist jessica burch. >it's been a cool and cloudy week for us, for our friends along our coastline. we still have that marine layer kind of

floating along our shoreline heading into the afternoon hours. today however, plenty of sunshine is expected for our inland areas today. so as we take a look at our daytime highs with that marine layer and with a little bit of winds moving in from offshore, we notice such a difference. 60s along the coast today matched up with some 90s off into the east bay, anywhere from fairfield down in antioch for our friday forecast. as we dive into the weekend. yeah, it's going to be a hot one for us down into the santa clara valley. we're holding on tight to 80s today near san jose and los gatos, and that looks very similar for our friends. all the way up into the north bay to let's head all the way up to wine country real fast areas like petaluma, stretching over into sonoma and napa. we have 80s in the forecast this afternoon with low 90s just near santa rosa, as well as healdsburg. now, as we head all the way over into the next couple of days, we have some changes in the forecast and that has to do with high pressure. as that moves its way in, it's going to warm us up and dry us up a little bit as we head into early next week. to add to that, we've been dealing with these cloudy skies because there's monsoonal moisture sweeping in from the south, and that exact same setup is impacting our friends up in the higher elevations

close to the sierra. with dry lightning possible in the forecast heading into this afternoon. so keep that in mind if you are thinking of traveling into that area this weekend however, i want to show you what's happening for us throughout the next seven days. back here in the bay 90s in the forecast now low 90s by sunday and monday. but then we gear up for that high pressure system i just showed you, and that's what's going to jump us right back up into upper 90s. even triple digits in a communities like antioch, fairfield and all the way down into livermore too. we'll start to average out as we head into late next week. but let's take a look at the bay too because those are hot temperatures, and not all of us are going to be experiencing it. as we head over into the bay, we also see that little bit of a cool down as we head into this early next week forecast. but by tuesday, we start to warm up in the upper 70s with those partly cloudy skies still holding on tight to the bay >liz>thanks, jess. there has been a lot of talk about social media and the potential impacts on our kids mental health. well, today the justice department announced it is suing tiktok. it says the app broke the law by allowing children under 13 to create accounts without their parents

consent. that is a violation of the children's online privacy protection act. the lawsuit also says parent company bytedance did not remove their information when their parents asked them to. tiktok says it disagrees with the allegations 1 in 6 gen zers say they use tiktok every day, and increasingly as a search engine looking for advice national consumer correspondent usher qureshi exposes the potential dangers posed by some so-called influencers and the unlikely social media star who's trying to set them straight social media therapy it's trending on tiktok. the hashtag mental health has been searched. more than 67 billion times. if you've got adhd or autism, or you have adhd let's talk about suicide awareness. this time has been super difficult for all of us. the search became a serious problem for samantha fridley. originally it was more i was just looking for like mental health advocacy it turned into

diagnosis as a high schooler who was already seeing a therapist for anxiety and depression, fridley watched countless videos of influencers sharing thoughts on mental health conditions and says tiktok flooded her feed with hundreds more. it made it a lot worse my anxiety was constantly like, well if i have this, then like, what if i have this people are going to look at me like i'm crazy. soon she started to believe she was bipolar, had borderline personality disorder and adhd according to one analysis of popular tiktok videos about adhd, 52% were deemed misleading it just got to a point where i was losing sleep because of it. i would be up until like 3 a.m. on tiktok just like researching. and you were self-diagnosing. were you diagnosed with any of these? never the videos in her for you feed were picked for her by tiktok's unique algorithm, based on what she had searched shared and liked. in a recent study researchers

posed as 13 year old users searching and liking mental health videos. they say tiktok pushed potentially harmful content on average every 39 seconds within 2.6 minutes of joining the app. some of the teens were shown content about suicide, and this one see, this one got only 39,000. enter doctor ina kanevsky. she may not look like your typical influencer, but this professor at san diego mesa college has become tiktok famous with more than a million followers. she's done it by debunking mental health misinformation. one video at a time. that said, if you talk to yourself, you're showing signs of mental illness. if you've been talking to yourself, that is actually a trauma response can we not? can we not? over pathologize normal behavior? yes, you can give people advice based on your experience, as long as you're clear that that's where you're coming from. this this is harmful very often these things are not presented that way. they're not presented as in, this is my personal experience but they are presented in like, did you

know that this is what it is like if you are autistic, you do this. if you have depression, you do this. so it's not it may be informed by by their personal experience, but that's not what they're making it sound like. while her videos have 36 million likes so far, doctor ina says she can't get tiktok to take down content she's flagged. this is tiktok's los angeles headquarters. we asked to meet them in person to talk about their algorithm and the mental health content that's being pushed to young users, but they declined an interview. they did email us a statement saying they are testing ways to avoid recommending a series of similar content on topics, even though they admit that what you consume on the platform drives what you see. they also wrote quote, we strongly encourage individuals to seek professional medical advice if they are in need of support, and that they would remove misinformation that causes harm regardless of intent. these platforms are created as businesses to make money. robin stevens spent years studying and critiquing social media platforms. now she's

advising instagram. do the platforms need to do more to curate this? absolutely. she's part of a group of experts now training influencers to create responsible mental health content, too many people can be impacted by one person's opinions or actions for it to be completely unchecked samantha had to check out and detox from social media. she spent 56 days in residential rehab no phone or tiktok allowed. do you still use it? yeah yeah, but differently yeah. how do you use it now? i don't use it for information anymore. or, you know, finding a diagnosis or finding like an illness. like i use it for, you know, kind of like a form of, like comedy. like, there's funny videos on there. so several states have now joined in a combined federal lawsuit against social media platforms, including tiktok and instagram, lawyers representing young people claim the platform's algorithms have caused dangerous behavior, including eating disorders and even suicide facebook, youtube

and snap are also named in the suit, >liz>while the young woman in that story says she beat the algorithm and reset her feed by searching for videos about k-pop and entertainment, it is a strategy teens can use if their feeds are flooded with negative posts. watching liking, and commenting on positive posts can help displace that negative comment. or they can just delete those accounts. start from scratch well, between social media and school and the lingering pandemic, there is a lot for our kids to deal with right now. coming up, a doctor joins us to explain what we can do to help our students going back to school

well, as kids get ready to return to the classroom, it can be a real mix of excitement and anxiety for students and their parents joining me now, doctor nicole setzer. she is the director of behavioral health at blue shield of california. thanks for being with us. this afternoon. >live>yeah, thanks for having me. >liz>so not to date ourselves, but back to school a little bit different these days. we didn't have social media to deal with. so how does that make things different for kids now >live>well, i had a chance to see the report right before

this, and so many great things called out in that, great pointers, great information. and i think it just has opened up the world in some really positive ways, for our kids, for adults for, for everyone. a lot of great connections. and, learning about different things. but as the report pointed out, too, it's also really a source of then comparing ourselves, and that's something that for sure, we're kind of naturally doing as, as kids growing up, that's how we figure out where we fit in the world. what you know, who we are, who we want to be. and then when you have such a broad slate of ways to compare your own life and your own way of being to all kinds of different content, that can get a little kind of out of whack and not in balance in a way that can be healthy. so, >liz>yeah, yeah, yeah, that's that's a lot for kids to take. and it's a lot for us as adults to take in, also, when it comes to getting back to school,

there's a whole new routine to deal with, you know, for the loose living of summer sleeping in and whatnot. how do you recommend easing into that transition >live>i would definitely say start early if you know, you know if you think about when you know, as an adult, when you come back to work after being on vacation or something like that, and it's so much easier you're not on the clock, you're not probably looking at your watch. you're not getting you're staying up late. you're not getting up early same idea about going back to school. start early, build in that routine in the morning that you know you're going to have to kick into once you start getting kids to school, especially when it's a new school, a new grade, so freshmen and college freshmen in high school, maybe middle school if it's your first year middle school or kindergartners or first graders, that's really important to kind of start with that morning routine is going to be like, start it early and then what's the after school routine bedtime and evening time going to be about getting

that schedule? kind of it's almost like a way to practice so that you're not all of a sudden having to switch overnight into a different kind of mode that can be really disruptive. >liz>now, speaking of switching modes there's also, you know, the pandemic factor that's still hanging over some kids who had spent years, in some cases online learning and are still having trouble making the switch to normal school >>i think >liz>how do you >live>think >>that that experience from a couple of years ago factors into kids going back to school now? >live>yeah, it's a great question. i think we're still looking at how that's going to continue to play out. i think for the most part, really looking at how that has those that period of time really interrupted a lot of development. the things that are going on during those years when our kids are in school with their friends, out in the world. right. and we have some catch up to do. and it's not just academic, it's psychological, it's social, it's emotional. all of those things are in catch up mode and

we're still looking at more specifically what that looks like. and each kid is still going to be a little bit different in how they're catching up, how they're essentially kind of plugging those gaps that they missed while they were out in, in covid time so it's, a lot probably still to come in that space. >liz>now, i know a lot of parents are giving their kids options these days. like, if they do feel >live>anxious, >>there's always, you know, the home school option where you can take classes online and not even have to deal with the social pressures of in-person school. but what is your take on that >live>yeah, you know, that's a hard one. i there's definitely some positives to that, if you've tried a, you know, you feel like you've kind of exhausted other options and that seems like the only way to keep your kid kind of engaged or on track academically. i think. i think that can be really helpful i think wherever possible. making sure that there are still those opportunities for social connection for recreation. i think the concern sometimes

with something like homeschooling, or with only online is the cut off to social avenues right? and those are really important for our kids. and again, not just about having friends and things like that. it's really about the balance of what we're doing as kids and especially as teenagers as we're growing up is balancing ourselves and learning about our identity and ourselves from those interactions with with the world around us and with people around us. and so we need that, to be able to fully develop and grow. so, yeah there's it's really about a balance of that. >liz>all right. makes sense. a lot of nuances here. doctor nicole seltzer, thank you so much. coming >live>up. thank you >liz>we are going to hear from a bay area founder who created a mental health hub for young people all around the world. how she says she's trying to work to save lives

i'm continuing our conversation about mental health and the challenges of going back to school for some kids. we had a chance to speak with an 18 year old from san jose who took part in a program that provides basically a mental health hub for young people. she told us how her goal is to tackle the stigma surrounding mental health. >our motto is mental health for the youth by the youth. just because all of our educational resources are created by youth and we really, really, embrace this youth oriented approach to running

our organization we are all about honing the intersections of psychology and education, to create psychoeducational resources for youth and educate them about their mental health and we do so in a very culturally responsive approach. we have something called our global mental health hub, which i actually worked on and emphasized at the ember collective, where we provide all of our psychoeducational resources in 11 different languages just to increase that sense of cultural competency when it comes to mental health care >liz>and here is what she has to say about what sparked her passion in combatting mental health barriers facing young people >that year, we received many emails from our district. just kind of alerting us that we had lost students to suicide and for me, that was just a huge, huge indicator that we need change. when you hear about that and you hear it's happening at your school for

for me, i think it was a huge reality check with regard to how intense this mental health crisis really is. but of course, there's also that kind of humane response to it where it's like wow, this is real. like i just lost a peer to challenges with mental health and it just kind of becomes very gloomy and especially so when you don't really see much being done to address the issues, >liz>she is a member of dosomething.org and did she ever through that initiative, she created a website, unite youth mental health.com. she's headed to stanford in the fall to study psychology. we'll be right back

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