Why Do So Many Children Try Suicide?
State of the union: In the last decade, the number of children and young people who have attempted suicide or been admitted to the emergency room has skyrocketed.
The American Medical Association found that even as the total number of pediatric emergency room visits declined, mental-health-related visits among children, teenagers, and young adults surged between 2011 and 2020, from 4.8 million to 7.5 million.
In that span, psychiatric patients’ share of all pediatric and young-adult E.R. From 7.7 percent to 13.1 percent, the number of psychiatric visits in young adults and children nearly doubled. Visits related to psychosis (including depression), drug and alcohol abuse, and other disorders increased. New York Times The number of admissions relating to suicide has nearly quadrupled. visits. This is in line with the findings of a study that we published two years ago. It found that the number adolescent girl admitted to emergency departments following suicide attempts increased by nearly 51 percent from 2019 to…
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