Teen suicides up 70+ percent over a decade

Teen suicides up 70+ percent over a decade
Teen suicides have gone up at a scary rate.

Breck Dumas























The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have reported an alarming rise in the number of teen suicides between 2006 and 2016.

Differentiating between white and black youths, the data analysis shows that the number of self-inflicted deaths of white children between the ages of ten and seventeen increased 70 percent during the time span. Black children and teens are less likely to kill themselves, but their suicide rate rose even higher judging from the study: an increase of 77 percent.

In a separate study from last year, CNN reported that the suicide rate among girls between the ages of 15 and 19 rose to a forty-year high in 2015.

A myriad of factors is attributed to the rise. Social media, bullying, and psychotropic drugs have all been named as contributors to the problem.

Societal stresses like parents with substance abuse problems, poverty, and political rhetoric are also named a culprits.

With a society that is now plugged in to propaganda and messaging at all times, the exposure is even more difficult for teenagers to process. Lauren Anderson, executive director of the Josh Anderson Foundation (named after her 17-year-old brother who killed himself in 2009), points out that the teens are more susceptible to reacting impulsively than adults might.

Anderson says “With this population, it’s the perfect storm for life to be extra difficult. Based on the development of the brain, they are more inclined to risky behavior, to decide in that moment.”

And it can become an epidemic within communities. Just in the past several months, six students took their lives in one Ohio school district.

But the rise in suicides isn’t only limited to teens. Tom Simon, an author of a CDC report on the topic said, “We know that overall in the US, we’re seeing increases in suicide rates across all age groups,” calling the pattern “pretty robust.”

Referring to a different study, The New York Times reported in 2016 that US suicide levels had reached their highest in almost thirty years. Katherine Hempstead, senior adviser for health care at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation said “It’s really stunning to see such a large increase in suicide rates affecting virtually every age group.”

Out of all ethnic groups, American Indians saw the highest rise in suicide rates with an increase of 89 percent for women in their population. Middle-aged white women had an escalation of 80 percent. That tracking was between 1999 to 2014.

Suicide numbers amongst teens, nonetheless, are still garnering noteworthy attention. In the study by the National Center for Health Statistics, it was found that although the rate was low for girls ten to fourteen, the rate of suicide had tripled in the age group during the time of the study.

 

This isn't really news, people are getting weaker in mind, more emotional, more dependant on other people for self esteem, and validation, needing to be included. Shit got hard for a lot of white people, in general white people aren't used to hard times like this. Losing jobs, homes, savings, credit, having to move live where your means allow even if it's a bad area. In hard times vise's become more of a crutch, ie drugs, drinking, medications, get rich scams, run away parents, divorced parents, etc etc. Kids that wouldn't normally be forced to grow up fast are put in positions where they have to figure out the world and the lessons of life. Not to even get started on the whole sexuality cluster fuck, further weakening and demasculinizing men more and more by the decade. A man devided against himself can not stand, he is subject to fall.

 

Well actually as sad as this is its only going to get worse with Trump.

Stress, hostility rising in American high schools in Trump era, new UCLA report finds

*Hey Mr Smith 36 your racism, bigotry, hostility, and spreading false right wing propaganda is helping to kill kids.

 

Maybe if teachers (and principals) spent more time TEACHING and less time indoctrinating and spouting ideology, there wouldn't be so much hostility.

 

Hell, it looks like someone wants to make sure they're angry long before they get to high school.

 

I'm gonna be brutally honest here....it is sad and tragic that teen suicides have gone up so much....there clearly is something going on....but I would rather these fucked-up kids kill themselves rather than, oh, I don't know, shoot up a school......

 

Nothing whatsoever to do with who the POTUS is.

 

I was wondering how that came into the subject but am not surprised that SOMEBODY threw it out there...

 

More evidence that kids are coddled, and incapable of dealing with adversary.