A mental-health professional attributes rising childhood anxiety and personal symptoms to devices and wir…

I am a licensed mental health professional who specializes in child and youth mental health and trauma. I have been working with children and youths in multiple capacities for nearly 30 years, and I have not only watched their screen addiction increase dramatically over the past decades, I have noticed something especially troubling in the past few years: A sharp increase in restless, unspecified anxiety and panic attacks in children and youths, and at younger and younger ages, starting with toddlers. This is sometimes misdiagnosed by other therapists as "ADHD". In the past, I saw anxiety and panic attacks primarily in children ages 12 and up, but now, it is becoming common in very young children, and one of the primary presenting complaints. I believe that many of these symptoms on the anxiety, restlessness, and panic spectrum, especially in children whose needs are otherwise met (e.g., they have adequate outdoor play time) and without trauma histories, are a direct result of their exposure to EMFs from screens, devices, and cellphone towers, but especially wifi and 5G. I believe that children and youths are especially exposed to this in public schools and public universities. When I suggest, as part of my treatment protocol, that parents drastically reduce or even remove their child's access to screens (and even find alternative education environments or homeschool if necessary to do this), this greatly reduces or even resolves the anxiety and panic symptoms in young children, pre-teens, and teens. It is harder for young adults to escape EMFs when devices are necessary for social functioning and the exposure is high at college or work. Of course, sometimes, the parents are so addicted to their own devices that they struggle to "unplug" the family, including the kids, from exposure to EMFs and symptoms persist. Likewise, I know anecdotally how EMFs affect me and my family members, causing sudden, intense pressure "headaches" or a sensation of there being a pressured force around the head, as well as general restlessness or even akathisia and inability to concentrate, when the wifi is on or nearby. I have read interesting research by the Weston A. Price Foundation that suggests that most of the modern viral epidemics and seasonal illnesses that we suffer are correlated to the installation of EMF-emitting towers and infrastructure. It is possible to use and emit frequencies for communications that heal human health rather than harm it--Take a look at Nikola Tesla's devices, inventions, and blueprints that were confiscated by the government. Please go beyond only researching this issue and make the infrastructure and frequency changes NOW. It will be easier to do this in 2026 before 5G and more intense harmful frequencies are so entrenched into our society's functioning that it will seem impossible to disrupt it. I am listing some links for your consideration below: https://www.westonaprice.org/health-topics/5g-negative-health-effects/#gsc.tab=0 https://www.westonaprice.org/podcast/272-the-shocking-truth-about-electricity-emfs-with-arthur-firstenberg/#gsc.tab=0 https://www.westonaprice.org/podcast-category/emfs-5g/#gsc.tab=0 https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12531076/ Thank you for accepting public comments! Laurie A. Couture, M.Ed., LCMHC, LMHC New Hampshire