Depression, Anxiety , Rampant Among America’s Youth.
NBC News reports recent research
indicates anxiety and depression have been affecting the lives of young Americans,
even preceding the COVID-19 pandemic.
Per the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,
one in five American teenagers has experienced
episodes of major depression.
According to NBC News, the study
used data from 2013 to 2019.
Data from 2020 onward was not used in the study, though previous reports indicated a drastic rise in stress and anxiety among the youth of America from 2019 to 2020.
The fact that this
report precedes the pandemic is stunning. , Dr. Richard Besser, pediatrician and president of the
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, via NBC News.
What [it] says to me is that this
is a dramatic underestimation
in terms of how significant
this crisis truly is. , Dr. Richard Besser, pediatrician and president of the
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, via NBC News.
I would view a report like this
as a harbinger of a much worse situation that we'll be seeing the next time a report comes out. , Dr. Richard Besser, pediatrician and president of the
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, via NBC News.
The study found that in 2019, over one-third of
high school-aged students said they experienced "persistently feeling sad or hopeless in the past year.".
Nearly 7 in 100,000 young
Americans, aged 10 to 19, committed suicide in 2018 and 2019.
Researchers also concluded that from
2011 to 2019, the second leading cause of death
among young Americans aged 10 to 29 was suicide.
Researchers also concluded that from
2011 to 2019, the second leading cause of death
among young Americans aged 10 to 29 was suicide