An organization called the MAHA Institute has been hosting events across the country to promote the ever-growing Make America Healthy Again movement. Their latest event in Washington, DC raised questions on the harmful affects of social media.
During the panel, Charay Gadd, a Mom from Michigan tearfully told a heartbreaking story about how her daughter, London Izabella-Ryén Gadd died at only twelve years old.
According to Gadd, her daughter died of a pill overdose after being prescribed SSRI and blamed what she called “failures” that range from medical professionals, social media, and mental health systems.
Wanting more answers to this tragic story, I sat down with Gadd in an exclusive interview:
“We later learned that social media was harming London and she was struggling, but at the time we were unaware of it. Medical professionals never brought it up as maybe a root cause of what had been going on,” Gadd told me.
Gadd then talked about social media platforms sending “self-harm and suicidal content” to her daughter whenever she would search up subjects like “alligator skin boots” or the “pookie lip trend”
“I was aware of the addictive portions of it, but not the evil I call it. it messed with her. It messed with her psyche. I mean we all know our children’s brains are still developing, and it was reshaping it.”
Gadd noted that her daughter came to her to express that something was wrong.
“As a mother, all I knew was to reach out to medical professionals and so we were led to an inpatient facility in Michigan, and I entrusted because that was pretty much the only source that I thought at the time that I had.”
After admitting her daughter, medical professionals were in touch with Gadd less than twelve hours later, recommending the use of Prozac.
Initially hesitant, the psychiatrist that Gadd was in touch with eventually convinced her to put her daughter on the medication, telling her “It’s the safest drug out there,” with the psychiatrist even insisting that they would put their own child on it.
Gadd then told me that her daughter used the same medication eight months prior on five milligrams and expressed that she “didn’t like how she felt on it.” The psychiatrist insisted that Gadd “didn’t give it long enough,” and even put in the medical records that Gadd herself said that she didn’t give it long enough.
Gadd agreed to go through with having her daughter take ten milligrams of Prozac, but three days later she found out that it was increased to twenty milligrams without her approval and that she “found her name on verbal consent that she had never seen.”
By the time Gadd found out about this, the damage was done and it was too late.
“If the social media hadn’t played a part in this, she would have never been prescribed this medication,” Gadd told me.
The grieving mother is now dedicating her time and energy to prevent this situation from happening to other families:
“I wanna give people and families resources that I never had. I wanna give them the education on these medications to make their own informed consent decisions.”
Gadd is also lobbying for a bill in Michigan dubbed “London’s Law.” The bill is named after her daughter and would allow greater access for parents to view their children’s algorithm history on social media. She also called for pharmacogenomic testing to ensure certain medicines are compatible with the gene variants in children and wants to raise funding so lower income families can afford these tests.
America is undergoing a mental health crisis and social media has played a huge role in this. Given the vulnerabilities of a developing child’s mind, Gabb supports banning social media for users that are 16 and under.
“If children were just sent inspirational content and these platforms were accountable that they had to, you know, follow these laws, instead of basically being able do whatever they please and send the content without any kind of filtering.”
Gadd ends the conversation by demanding accountability from the medical professionals:
“If I say ‘Okay, well, I have Prozac. The doctor just prescribed you 10 milligrams of Prozac. Why don’t you wanna take mine?’ I would be prosecuted because the medication might potentially harm you. You know? I just don’t understand where the accountability is.”
The tragic loss of Gadd’s daughter can lead to intense debates on the negative effects social media media can have on the youth and if further restrictions should be implemented to protect children’s developing minds.
With London’s Law and Gadd’s desire to turn the non-profit initiative Unscripted Minds into a full non-profit, the debate surrounding children’s usage of social media continues.
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