kersting, i know you can identify with this. let's take a look.th self-harm and hospitalizations up over the last 10 years up 163%. how bad do things have to get for someone to sit in your office or you to visit them in the hospital that they are trying to take their lives? >> yeah. i mean, you know, when a kid gets to that point, they are just, you know, in such a depressed state that they feel worthless. and part of it to the other guy who spoke his point is that youngs kids are very vulnerable, teenagers, preteens. they are insecure by nature. and now when you start to compare yourself to everybody else. the eventual mindset is hey, everybody else's life is perfect and my life really stinks. so, you know, it's unfortunate, but, you know, we need to have these conversations and parents need to step up to the plate and start setting parameters. >> brian: ten mesha, do you know what they're talking about in congress stopping kids from having social media 16 and 17 years old is that possible today? if you knew you couldn't have a phone certain time

thomas kersting is a psychotherapist and author of raising healthy teenagers.so much in this time in american history? >> you know, it started 2020. 2020, the year of covid. alcohol sales went up 2.9%. which was the highest level in 50 years. and people still home. that's part of it. still homework from home. >> jesse: still home, still drinking, they don't have to travel to the bar. >> grab a brewski at 1:00 during lunch. nobody would know. >> jesse: drinking during the day now when working remotely. >> biggest issue right now when you look at everything going on in society, record inflation, people pouring across the borders and uncertain job market, all of the stuff we are getting from social media and so forth. potential war, all this other stuff, that causes stress. >> jesse: we are drinks because we are stressed. >> no question about it. >> jesse: drinking because so one can see us drinking because we are drinking at home when we're supposed to be working. >> all this stress when you think about it. bombarded all day long a lot of different stories funnel