In this episode, Dr. Phil talks about the devastating effects of childhood exposure to C.O.D. (Childhood Orientation and Related Illness) and how the government ignored the problem for years. Phil's new book, "We've Got Issues" is out tomorrow.
00:00:06.100Well, think about it. In like 08, 09, smartphones came on and kids started, they stopped living their lives and started watching people live their lives.
00:00:18.480And so we saw the biggest spike and the highest levels of depression, anxiety, loneliness and suicidality since records have ever been kept.
00:00:28.040And it's just continued on and on and on.
00:00:32.060And then COVID hits 10 years later, and the same agencies that knew that are the agencies that shut down the schools for two years.
00:00:42.420Who does that? Who takes away the support system for these children?
00:00:47.120Who takes them away and shuts it down?
00:00:48.720And by the way, when they shut it down, they stopped the mandated reporters from being able to see children that were being abused and sexually molested.
00:00:57.560And in fact, sent them home and abandoned them to their abusers with no way to watch and referrals dropped 50 to 60%.
00:01:04.820There was also a pandemic going on and they were trying to save kids' lives.
00:01:17.380Maybe we're lucky they didn't because we kept them out of the places that they could be sick because no one wanted to believe we had an issue.
00:01:26.280Are you saying no school children died of COVID?
00:01:31.940They were the less vulnerable group and they suffered and will suffer more from the mismanagement of COVID than they will from the exposure to COVID.