Posted on 04/04/2022 9:18:09 PM PDT by lightman
More than four in ten U.S. high school students felt persistently sad or hopeless in 2021, according to a CDC field survey released late last week.
The number of high school students with persistent feelings of sadness or hopelessness has grown steadily from 26.1 percent in 2009, to 36.7 percent in 2019, according to CDC data.
The results of the new CDC survey (pdf) taken between January and June 2021 show the trend continuing, with 44 percent of the students reporting feeling persistently sad or hopeless.
“We know from other research that youth with poor mental health are more likely to struggle with school and grades, decision making, and their physical health,” Jonathan Mermin, director of the National Center for HIV, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention, told reporters during a conference call on March 31.
“Furthermore, mental health problems in youth are often associated with other behavioral risks such as drug use, experiencing violence, and higher risk sexual behaviors,” Mermin added. “And these problems can have lasting negative effects well into adulthood.”
More than one in three students surveyed said they experienced poor mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the data.
The CDC survey was funded through the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act.
“Our data make it clear that young people experience significant disruption and adversity during the pandemic and are experiencing a mental health crisis,” Kathleen Ethier, director of CDC’s Division of Adolescent and School Health, told reporters during a conference call on March 31.
“This data and others like it show us that young people and their families have been under incredible levels of stress during the pandemic.”
More than half of the students surveyed (55 percent) said they experienced emotional abuse by a parent or another adult in their home. More than one in ten (11 percent) said they experience physical abuse at home “including hitting, beating, kicking, or physically hurting the student,” according to the data.
“These data echo a cry for help,” Debra Houry, CDC acting principal deputy director, said in a statement. “The COVID-19 pandemic has created traumatic stressors that have the potential to further erode students’ mental wellbeing. Our research shows that surrounding youth with the proper support can reverse these trends and help our youth now and in the future.”
In the survey, the CDC asked for the first time whether high school students experienced racism. Asian students topped the list, with nearly two in three (64 percent) saying they’ve experienced racism. More than half (55 percent) of black and multiracial students also reported experiencing racism.
.... unintended consequences, collateral damage...
OR SOMETHING MORE SINISTER?
Probably because all their teachers are trying to turn the girls into boys and turn the boys into girls...all in secret from their parents. School Nurse: “Here, have some puberty blockers. You’ll feel much better.”
Well, that’s a good reason to prosecute and convict Fauci.
All thanks to stupid overbearing governments, Federal, state and local.
Cheer up, kids! Less than 10 years left.
24/7 Lies of Fear Porn to
The entire Planet might
Tend to Screw up a majority
of The People Regardless of
Their Age.
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War Crimes.
How many people 50 to 70 feel the same way?
And This from CDC,,,
OUTRAGEOUS.
Welcome to your teen years!
Young people need to be around others, and they don’t need masks or stupid rules to stifle what joy they have in being young. I feel bad for young people who had to put up with nonsense for 2+ years. I have noticed a regular seemingly increased amount of teen suicides in local paper.
“ More than four in ten U.S. high school students felt persistently sad or hopeless in 2021…”
As did conservatives that year.
But, there’s always the next election!
Time to jack another generation into mood altering drugs provided by the government to teens. Yet another publication on why government should be in control of peoples personalities.
More customers for the drug manufacturers, covid something good for everyone
The statistics on teen depression are not surprising. They are another symptom of a culture being destroyed.
I have seen the effect CRT and other social justice “education” is having on high school age students. Whites, particularly white males, are being told they are responsible for everything bad in the world since the beginning of time due to their white skin. They are put through psychological torture to confess their white privilege and then are confronted with contrived situations where no matter what they do in response it is wrong. Confronted with this abuse, I’ve seen bright, energetic and happy children of friends derail in their teen years and simply give up on life.
Meanwhile the messaging nonwhite kids receive is to embrace their victimhood. Everything bad that happens to them is due to the white power system. They have no personal responsibility for anything. They are “owed”.
My wife and I sacrificed to send our child to private school in the 1990’s because the public schools were a sewer at that time. Today the once academically strong private high school my child attended is another woke indoctrination center. If any child is to be educated in an environment where essential academic and life skills are taught, personal responsibility for behavior is demanded, and self esteem is supported based an the satisfaction derived from the recognition of outstanding personal performance, that education will come from home schooling.
Our modern institutional education system is fully corrupted and destructive to children and society.
They are pissed they have to live under a fraudulent government.
The Great Reset proceeding as planned
It is from the constant barrage of negative news blasting through their cellphones 24/7.
Will masks return to schools as COVID cases rise in Central New York?
My God, these people are evil.
If they watch TV news, probably plenty of 50-70 year olds feel the same way. Our local TV news may as well have a storm segment scheduled every day (to accompany its COVID segment); any precipitation in the forecast, even weeks away, is cause for the stormy background behind some goofball making dire predictions...
Audit finds $17 million in excess taxpayer funds at Albion Central School District
Oopsie.
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