Science Report: Mental Health Crises Spike Among Youth

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Suicide related emergency room visits for young people have increased every year since 2011

https://today.uconn.edu/2023/05/mental-health-crises-spike-among-youth/

Their results showed strikingly similar trends across all youth groups and regions of the country: mental health-related visits rose every year, climbing from 7.7% of all pediatric emergency visits in 2011 to 13.1% of all pediatric emergency visits in 2020. And the proportion of mental health emergency visits for suicide-related causes increased as well, from less than 1% to more than 4% of pediatric visits.

“We knew it was increasing over time, but this is the first nationwide study to look at this since 2016,” says Rhee. “Our results suggest that a growing number of youth have unmet mental health needs in the community, but the emergency department is not the optimal treatment setting for children with mental health needs,” Rhee says
 
Damn that Hunter Biden
 
Ensuring they all have access to guns will fix the problem....... eventually.

we should expand their access to guns AND take away their access to mental health professionals, and while we're at it, make them feel guilty and subhuman for being gay, or trans or bi or "illegal immigrants", or if they feel different in any way shape or form.

sincerely,

Florida.
 
Didn't read the link, but social media isn't to blame, it's lazy parenting. Being a quality parent it hard as fuck.
 
Nothing has changed, you have to be there for your kid with love and discipline from Day 1. Can't wait til middle school, too late, foundation is set. You gotta' do the ground work at an early age and be present in their lives, every aspect. There are distractions and "bad kids" like there always has been, but if you prep your kid, they will have a fantastic chance to succeed.
 
Didn't read the link, but social media isn't to blame, it's lazy parenting. Being a quality parent it hard as fuck.

While I agree with the sentiment I would argue that some of us, I suppose, are just naturally good at fucking and do not find it that hard, honestly.
 
Suicide related emergency room visits for young people have increased every year since 2011

https://today.uconn.edu/2023/05/mental-health-crises-spike-among-youth/

I'm not excited enough to read the article, but I have to question the conclusion in the headline. More emergency room visits doesn't necessarily imply more crises, it could be that the response to crises is just changing in that direction.

Back in my day, if a kid was in crisis, we'd just take turns beating him until his morale improved.

barfo
 
I'm not excited enough to read the article, but I have to question the conclusion in the headline. More emergency room visits doesn't necessarily imply more crises, it could be that the response to crises is just changing in that direction.

Back in my day, if a kid was in crisis, we'd just take turns beating him until his morale improved.

barfo

No suicide is up in children, specifically in girls. There have been studies linking it to social media.
 
https://news.ohsu.edu/2022/03/16/oh...cide-attempts-by-pre-teen-children-nationwide

In a paper published today in the journal JAMA Pediatrics, OHSU researchers with the Oregon Poison Center, Pediatric Emergency Medicine, and Child Psychiatry examined over 928,000 incidents of intentional ingestion of toxic substances by 6- to 18-year-olds, reported to 55 poison centers across the United States between 2000 and 2020.

Over that 20-year period, researchers observed an increase in suicidal overdoses beginning around 2012. The most significant increase was among children in the 10- to 12-year-old group, which increased from 1,058 in 2010 to 5,606 in 2020 — a fivefold increase.
 
Nothing has changed, you have to be there for your kid with love and discipline from Day 1. Can't wait til middle school, too late, foundation is set. You gotta' do the ground work at an early age and be present in their lives, every aspect. There are distractions and "bad kids" like there always has been, but if you prep your kid, they will have a fantastic chance to succeed.
Yes and no to a certain extent. I agree with a lot of what you said but social media is partially to blame for this. You can do everything right as a parent and these kids still see so many images that make them upset and can be bullied in new and different ways that most of us never thought of growing up in the 90s and earlier. I don't envy the kids these days and the things they have to deal with that we never did.
 
Yes and no to a certain extent. I agree with a lot of what you said but social media is partially to blame for this. You can do everything right as a parent and these kids still see so many images that make them upset and can be bullied in new and different ways that most of us never thought of growing up in the 90s and earlier. I don't envy the kids these days and the things they have to deal with that we never did.
Kids don't have to have social media, don't have to be given unfettered access to the internet. Respectfully-established and consistently-reinforced boundaries prevent much of what you mention.
 
Kids don't have to have social media, don't have to be given unfettered access to the internet. Respectfully-established and consistently-reinforced boundaries prevent much of what you mention.

This is an interesting article
https://www.cwla.org/increased-suicide-rates-among-children-aged-5-to-11-years-in-the-u-s/

The day of the suicide revealed that 32 percent of the child victims were disciplined at school, and an argument occurred in the home followed by disciplinary action. With most of the child victims being at home at the time of the suicide, findings indicated that an adult in 58.4 percent of cases was also present in the home. Suspected or confirmed child abuse and neglect were associated in 27.1 percent of the cases, and 40.6 percent experienced multiple traumatic events. Domestic violence, parental substance abuse, family history of psychological problems, or suicide were documented in approximately 40 percent of the child victim’s cases. 1 in 4 of the child victims has a history of trauma.
 
Kids don't have to have social media, don't have to be given unfettered access to the internet. Respectfully-established and consistently-reinforced boundaries prevent much of what you mention.
Agree 100% and I'm always genuinely impressed when parents are able to not only set that boundary but hold firm on it. Thing is kids have this way of getting around the rules parents lay down, I know I did. Seems like everyday it's harder to be a parent and a kid, props to those that are doing it right.
 
I'm not excited enough to read the article, but I have to question the conclusion in the headline. More emergency room visits doesn't necessarily imply more crises, it could be that the response to crises is just changing in that direction.

Back in my day, if a kid was in crisis, we'd just take turns beating him until his morale improved.

barfo

Wait, you have a kid?!?

Soooooo many questions...

Like does your kid live in a basement under the basement you live in in your mom's house?

And how does your mom afford a house with 2 basements?
 
Wait, you have a kid?!?

Soooooo many questions...

Like does your kid live in a basement under the basement you live in in your mom's house?

And how does your mom afford a house with 2 basements?

I said "a kid", not "my kid". Being a generous man, I make myself available anytime someone needs a beating.

barfo
 
I said "a kid", not "my kid". Being a generous man, I make myself available anytime someone needs a beating.

barfo
I hear Tucker Carlson needs a beating...check your dance card, he fights like a white guy they say which means hiring MAGA cartel bodyguards.
 
Wait, you have a kid?!?

Soooooo many questions...

Like does your kid live in a basement under the basement you live in in your mom's house?

And how does your mom afford a house with 2 basements?

He lives in a pineapple under the sea.
 
Yes and no to a certain extent. I agree with a lot of what you said but social media is partially to blame for this. You can do everything right as a parent and these kids still see so many images that make them upset and can be bullied in new and different ways that most of us never thought of growing up in the 90s and earlier. I don't envy the kids these days and the things they have to deal with that we never did.
But everything out there is available to EVERY kid. They all have the same access to sites about murder and sex and whatever. It's HOW the kids were raised that is the deciding factor of how they use this unfiltered info. In my above post I said that there are obviously outside influences and things happen. I know for a fact that the girls my daughters age that we've been around now for 13 years. I nailed it back when they were leaving elementary school. I told my wife the exact 5 or 6 of them that were going to get into some serious shit as they got older.....simply based on their parents. Either not there, or didn't give a fuck....and BAM it happened. The ones who are the whores and trouble makers and partiers are those.
Of course there are ones who had great parents and shit happened, but not the majority by any means. Parents need to be engaged and available plain and simple. We have never ONCE told our kids they couldn't look at stuff or read stuff....they know we are always there for them to ask questions to and talk......and we do. To simply blanket blame the internet is naive, foolish and lazy.
 
Kids don't have to have social media, don't have to be given unfettered access to the internet. Respectfully-established and consistently-reinforced boundaries prevent much of what you mention.

There's no way HCP actually liked this. Way too many words he doesnt know.
 

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