‘Dark and Despairing’—How TikTok Exploits the Minds of American Teens

A four-hour drive home in November 2020 was harrowing for the Schotts. They had just learned that their 18-year-old daughter, Annalee, had taken her own life at the family farm in Colorado. Everything seemed fine when they FaceTimed her that morning to let her know they’d be home from visiting family in Texas at about 11 p.m. Now, they wanted to be with her instantly but still had four hours to go. “It was the longest, most hellacious drive we’ve ever done,” Lori Schott told The Epoch Times. “It was just like a horrible dream.” “I was in the car for hours, trying to process this. I remember I told my son: ‘It’s not true. She’s in the barn. She’s with animals. This can’t be true. She couldn’t have done that.’”...