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A Shocking 30% Of High School Girls ‘Seriously Considered’ Suicide Last Year
Nation and State ^ | 02/14/2023 | Tyler Durden

Posted on 02/14/2023 10:22:20 AM PST by SeekAndFind

A staggering 30% of high school girls in the United States who were surveyed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said they had "seriously considered attempting suicide" in 2021, up from (a still shocking) 19% in 2011.

Panning back, almost 60% of high school girls surveyed said they felt 'persistent sadness or hopelessness' in 2021, an increase of roughly 60% over the same time period.

Though both high-school girls and boys reported experiencing mental-health challenges, girls reported record high levels of violence, sadness and suicide risk, the CDC said. In 2021, 57% of high-school girls reported experiencing persistent feelings of sadness or hopelessness in the past year, compared with 36% in 2011. Thirty percent reported they seriously considered attempting suicide in 2021, up from 19% in 2011. -WSJ

When it comes to boys in high school, 29% reported persistent feelings of sadness and hopelessness in 2021 vs. 21% in 2011, while 14% reported seriously considering a suicide attempt, up from 13% in 2011.

Following the survey, federal officials noted a spike in mental health among young people - particularly girls, in new data released on Monday which was gathered from a biennial survey spanning 2011 to 2021, of 9th through 12th-graders across the country.

According to mental health experts, girls are particularly vulnerable to anxiety and depression, given higher rates of harassment and discrimination they face compared with boys. And of course, now they're all competing with TikTok Barbies who set even more unrealistic and unhealthy standards.

And as the Wall Street Journal notes, the evidence suggests that the stress, isolation and loss during the pandemic amplified mental health issues among young people who were already struggling.

"These data show our kids need far more support to cope, hope and thrive," said CDC chief medical officer, Debra Houry.

According to the CDC, there LGBTQ teens are showing 'ongoing and extreme distress,' with more than half of these students reporting a recent episode of poor mental health, and 22% reporting an actual suicide attempt in the past year.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: highschool; suicide; teenagers
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To: SeekAndFind
It’s difficult having to go to school all day and have to listen to leftist scumbag teachers. Kids are getting hit at so many angles. They are constantly being told that climate change is going to destroy the world. The timing on that seems to be when they are in their 20’s it will be impossible to survive. Additionally they are encouraged to be accepting of sexual perverts and if they don’t go along with that they are punished or ostracized. Then everyone is taught to be a victim, unless you’re white, in which case you need to feel guilty.

Government schools are messing with kids heads which takes away from actual education time. Don’t let your children or grandchildren go near anyone with an Ed degree.

21 posted on 02/14/2023 10:51:35 AM PST by ConservativeInPA (Stupidly is a moral problem, not an intellectual problem. )
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To: SeekAndFind

“According to mental health experts, girls are particularly vulnerable to anxiety and depression, given higher rates of harassment and discrimination they face compared with boys. And of course, now they’re all competing with TikTok Barbies who set even more unrealistic and unhealthy standards.”

What a nonsense paragraph. Men are the ones with higher risk of depression and suicide, in all age groups, not women. Men are the ones facing more discrimination in modern society, not women. And nobody is forcing anyone to compete with “TikTok Barbies”. Just don’t sign up for TikTok and that problem disappears.


22 posted on 02/14/2023 10:54:37 AM PST by Boogieman
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To: SeekAndFind
According to the CDC, there LGBTQ teens are showing 'ongoing and extreme distress,' with more than half of these students reporting a recent episode of poor mental health, and 22% reporting an actual suicide attempt in the past year.

This is what happens when you encourage mental illness and then refuse to treat it. Zero surprise.
23 posted on 02/14/2023 10:55:08 AM PST by Antoninus (Republicans are all honorable men.)
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To: bray

Lockdowns are bad for social creatures?…

Solitary confinement is the worst punishment in our prisons.
People would rather live with murderers, rapists, and mentally disturbed people than be alone.


24 posted on 02/14/2023 10:56:53 AM PST by EEGator
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To: ClearCase_guy

“...the quickest way to make them absolutely miserable is to just give them what they ask for. They hate that. It’s very odd”

It’s not odd when you realize that a lot of women are constantly trying to recreate their relationship with their fathers, and one of the key roles of the father is to simply say “no”.


25 posted on 02/14/2023 10:57:06 AM PST by Boogieman
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To: bigdaddy45

Dont forget in many cases a lack of religion.


26 posted on 02/14/2023 11:08:48 AM PST by FreshPrince
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To: Boogieman

“the quickest way to make them absolutely miserable is to just give them what they ask for. “

Hehe I know about that one personally....


27 posted on 02/14/2023 11:09:21 AM PST by FreshPrince
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To: ConservativeInPA
It’s difficult having to go to school all day and have to listen to leftist scumbag teachers.

The leftist public government schools produce *millions* of new indoctrinated leftist voters every single year. And those drooling in cups seem to think it's a few from CA moving in that's ruining their states...S-t-u-p-i-d.

28 posted on 02/14/2023 11:20:21 AM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: SeekAndFind

FTA: “These data show our kids need far more support to cope, hope and thrive,” said CDC chief medical officer, Debra Houry.

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That would be support from strong families and religious organizations and not from any government or quasi-government entity. And they need to be taught not to be loose; sleeping around is not good for mental health either.


29 posted on 02/14/2023 11:27:44 AM PST by Bigg Red (Trump will be sworn in under a shower of confetti made from the tattered remains of the Rat Party.)
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To: SeekAndFind
It is the GODLESSNESS of their lives that obscures hope and purpose.

The same GODLESSNESS fuels the bullying from their peers.

30 posted on 02/14/2023 11:27:44 AM PST by G Larry ( "woke" means 'stupid enough to fall for the promotion of every human weakness into a virtue')
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To: Jim W N

You are so right.


31 posted on 02/14/2023 11:30:35 AM PST by Bigg Red (Trump will be sworn in under a shower of confetti made from the tattered remains of the Rat Party.)
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To: steve86

Just curious about your Latin side quote. Who is never charged, tried or jailed? And your home page is most impressive. Such content as I read there betokens an educated, serious person.


32 posted on 02/14/2023 11:34:30 AM PST by Blennos
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To: SeekAndFind

If I lived in the atmosphere their schools, teachers, and
peers created for them, I’d be thinking along those lines.


33 posted on 02/14/2023 11:34:41 AM PST by DoughtyOne (I pledge allegiance to the flag of the USofA & to the Constitutional REPUBLIC for? which it stands.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Define “seriously”.


34 posted on 02/14/2023 11:36:51 AM PST by enumerated ( )
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To: SeekAndFind

“Consider” and “attempt” is what teen females do, there is a reason that advertisers and liberal politicians, and mass hysteria so easily capture the female mind.

What is the actual suicide rate for the two sexes? Which sex is actually killing themselves?

Which sex is the one always being written about in regard to suicide?


35 posted on 02/14/2023 11:40:51 AM PST by ansel12 (NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.)
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To: SeekAndFind

The needless lockdowns, remote learning, lack of socialization and forced masking etc is why this is going on, aka “long covid”.


36 posted on 02/14/2023 11:41:58 AM PST by rockabyebaby (THE BEST IS YET TO COME - (PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP))
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To: SeekAndFind

Being a teen female is tough duty


37 posted on 02/14/2023 11:44:18 AM PST by Nifster ( EI see puppy dogs in the clouds )
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To: SeekAndFind

What are they learning in school which gives them any hope for their future?

They are taught that their existence is part of some random cosmic accident, that they are of no more intrinsic value than rats or mosquitoes, that they are nothing more than globs of random cells from their conception and that their only existential value is if they are willing give up all the good things in life to save the planet.

Oh, and if they insist that two plus two is four, they are racists.

Gee why aren’t they joyful?


38 posted on 02/14/2023 11:45:14 AM PST by P-Marlowe (I got the <ΙΧΘΥΣ>< variant. Catch it. John 3:16)
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To: SeekAndFind

Someone I know from church had her niece attempt suicide last month. She was about 80% successful. Now she’s lying in a hospital bed with half her face blown off. She faces years of painful surgeries and rehab. At least she now has something to be depressed about.


39 posted on 02/14/2023 11:47:04 AM PST by OrangeHoof (No food in the stores; fuel prices too high? Thank a liberal.)
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To: SeekAndFind

and church attendance is at an all-time low, especially among the young. How many know those great morality stories of the Bible, know the song, “Jesus loves me, this I know...”?????


40 posted on 02/14/2023 11:50:54 AM PST by elpadre (nd )
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