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Buffalo Mental Health Awareness Week Events Get our free mobile app May is Mental Health Awareness Month. Buffalo is kicking off WNY Mental Health Awareness Week, starting May 6. There will be both virtual and in-person events, including Zumba dancing, live discussions, an open mic night, movie watch parties, info sessions, mental wellness activities, and more. Restoration Society Inc. along with BestSelf Behavioral Health, Peer Connection, Renewal Center, Young Leaders and Advocates Network, Mental Health Advocates, and Buffalo and Erie County Public Libraries have put together the many acti...

>> you see it's not social media that kids are addicted to. it's -- they're addicted to each other. explain that. >> i think they're addicted to the peer connection and affirmation they are able to get via social media. it's not the screens or the devices it's the access to each other to know what each other are doing and where they stand and to know how many people like what they posted and how many follow them today. >> and your report compares social media to rocket fuel for teens. can you explain what that means? >> so it's highly combustible and flammable and it accelerates the degree to ...

Deepen relationships with their kids. >> you say it's not social media that kids are adid i want difficulted to, it's -- they're addicted to each other. explain that. >> i think they're addicted to the peer connection and affirmation that they're able to get via social media. so it's not the screens, it's not the devices, it's the access that social media gives them to each worry, to knother, to know stand, to know how many people followed them today and unfollowed them. so it's the peer connection, the affirmation and the reinforcement that i think is highly addictive. >> your report compares...