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.
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.
“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.
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.
“...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”.
Dont forget in many cases a lack of religion.
“the quickest way to make them absolutely miserable is to just give them what they ask for. “
Hehe I know about that one personally....
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.
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.
The same GODLESSNESS fuels the bullying from their peers.
You are so right.
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.
If I lived in the atmosphere their schools, teachers, and
peers created for them, I’d be thinking along those lines.
Define “seriously”.
“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?
The needless lockdowns, remote learning, lack of socialization and forced masking etc is why this is going on, aka “long covid”.
Being a teen female is tough duty
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?
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.
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...”?????
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