Youth suicide attempts soared during pandemic, CDC report says
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Re: Youth suicide attempts soared during pandemic, CDC report says
#2> during pandemic
The lockdowns are what has caused soaring mental health issues across whole sections of the population.
Re: Youth suicide attempts soared during pandemic, CDC report says
#3Childhood obesity also jumped from 19% to 22% from 2020 to 2021 (https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2021/0...)
Re: Youth suicide attempts soared during pandemic, CDC report says
#4Covid was a wealth transfer from the youth to the elderly
Re: Youth suicide attempts soared during pandemic, CDC report says
#5Covid was a wealth transfer from the youth to the elderly
Collective behavior in response to COVID was a life transfer from the youth to the elderly.
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#6Re: Youth suicide attempts soared during pandemic, CDC report says
#7Covid was a wealth transfer from the youth to the elderly
Collective behavior in response to COVID was a life transfer from the youth to the elderly.
I’ve pondered this on occasion. In this era of people in their 80s holding many of the major positions in government and business in the US, I wonder whether this was their final attempt to prevent transferring power onto the newer generations. I’m not saying this was a conscious strategy, but it certainly was a very interesting phenomenon especially after listening to Eric Weinstein decry the lack of generational transfer in the US.
Re: Youth suicide attempts soared during pandemic, CDC report says
#8> Researchers, though, cautioned against drawing direct lines between these spikes and conditions brought on by the coronavirus pandemic, which disrupted nearly every aspect of U.S. life starting in the middle of last March.
> A heightened appreciation about mental health in 2020 might have prompted parents to get their children mental health treatment, they said.
> “Conversely, by spending more time at home together with young persons, adults might have become more aware of suicidal thoughts and behaviors, and thus been more likely to take their children to the ED," according to the report.
Happy to see a correlation != causation disclaimer.
Re: Youth suicide attempts soared during pandemic, CDC report says
#9> Conversely, by spending more time at home together with young persons, adults might have become more aware of suicidal thoughts and behaviors, and thus been more likely to take their children to the ED
Is ED the emergency department? Or something else?
Re: Youth suicide attempts soared during pandemic, CDC report says
#10I'm not even a parent, but I've been incredibly distressed by this trend. Several of my good friends have had their daughters attempt suicide (luckily, none have succeeded, although 2 extremely close calls). It's been utterly gut-wrenching to watch these talented, kind, ambitious girls spiral into shells of their former selves.
Luckily, all my friends are fellow techies who are upper-middle class, and can afford medication and therapy (and in one case, out-of-state long-term hospitalization.) But even with insurance, they're looking at many thousands of dollars of treatment.
It makes me sick to my stomach to think of all the lower-class parents who are terrified of their kids killing themselves, but can't afford therapy or psychiatry visits, and can't get pro-bono help (apparently the wait lists are several months long in many cities.)
It's past time the West reckons with our mental health crisis. Why is it that we're the wealthiest nations in the world, yet our kids are more stressed and depressed than kids in third-world countries? I think society will only become more and more unstable until we spend time seriously addressing that question and adjust our culture accordingly.