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Crptoverse and my Worry for kids

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  The Cryptoverse has amazing possibilities but also significant risks. I am a survivor of a mental health condition psychosis and depression and suffered multiple childhood traumas which I believed caused the mental health condition and the addiction. Current research suggests childhood traumas are certainly a causation in addiction and mental health. I am also a Drug and Alcohol intervention worker with children and teenagers, my academic study is in children and young people to a masters level and I’ve been working with young people for 15 years. I am also an artist, investor and was trading the crypto markets for about a year, but that for another thread. The reason i felt compelled to re-post and comment on this blog was just to inform and to help people think more deeply about the Crytopverse in general, particularly in relation to young people. In my work with teenagers to be honest the crytoverse scares the hell out of me for them. I have watched over the ye
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Online gaming is keeping teenagers from falling through the cracks.

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  “Strange times call for strange measures” Sitting in our living room playing PlayStation online with young people in theirs, is something we never imagined we’d be doing. But here we are in this unparalleled crisis of confinement in the parallel universe of online gaming, the final frontier of youth work outreach. A place where no youth worker has gone before. For this youth worker who prides himself on his ability to work through face to face contact on the streets, in the stairwells and hidden spaces where young people congregate. This is truly an unprecedented experience, but also an opportunity to think outside of the box.   So why online gaming? Well why not? We are living through an emergency situation. We are asking our young people to stay at home, we want them to social distance and we also want to keep in touch, check in with them, keep our relationships with them and support them through this crisis. So we have to cut our cloth to measure.  Previously our s
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