Lockdowns Drove Tens of Thousands of Kids into ‘Clinical Depression’ – Study

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Lockdowns Drove Tens of Thousands of Kids into ‘Clinical Depression’ – Study

Peter Caddle 28 Apr 2022

Tens of thousands of kids in the United Kingdom have been driven into clinical depression by coronavirus lockdowns, a study has found.

Lockdowns hoping to curb the spread of the Chinese coronavirus have driven tens of thousands of kids in the United Kingdom to clinical depression, a study published on Wednesday has suggested.

The study’s findings mirror those of a number of other investigations which found that children have been negatively affected as a result of harsh COVID-19 restrictions, which saw young people’s activities heavily restricted for an extended period of time.

According to the paper published in the Royal Society Open Science journal, children attending secondary schools in the United Kingdom found themselves suffering more from clinical depression as a result of COVID clampdowns.

Researchers found that 27.1 per cent prevalence of depression among their thousands-strong sample, which they say represents a notable increase from where they would have expected the percentage to be had the pandemic never occurred.

Overall, The Telegraph reports that this increased percentage means that 60,000 more youngsters were driven into clinical depression by the lockdown.

“After controlling for baseline scores and several school and pupil-level characteristics, depressive symptoms were higher in the COVID-19 group,” the study’s discussion section reads.

“These findings demonstrate that the COVID-19 pandemic increased adolescent depressive symptoms beyond what would have likely occurred under non-pandemic circumstances,” it said.

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https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2022/04/28/lockdowns-drove-tens-of-thousands-of-kids-into-clinical-depression-study/

[Kamaji]

That happened in the U.S. as well.  A young family member fell into such a deep depression because of the isolation from her friends and schoolmates that she spent some in-patient time at a hospital for it.

This is just one more in a long line of unnecessary costs that should be - but will never be - laid at the feet of those who called for the lockdowns.