16 hours Ago By Amy Denney
Sofia never really felt like she fit in as a preteen, so she turned to a place where she could get lost and go numb.She sat scrolling on her smartphone, hour after hour, day after day, searching for her identity. It was an easy distraction from the social isolation of the COVID-19 quarantine and the pain of her parent’s divorce.
“I was so enraptured by what was going on in my phone,” Sofia, now 15, told The Epoch Times. She hated herself, caught up in standards she didn’t think she could achieve and was genuinely terrified by the thought of talking to peers..
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