CDC Admits to Teen Mental Health Crisis it Helped Create

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CDC Admits to Teen Mental Health Crisis it Helped Create

Breccan F. Thies 1 Apr 2022

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention admitted there is an adolescent mental health crisis due to the draconian coronavirus protocols it recommended.

According to new survey data released Thursday, more than 44 percent of American teens reported “persistent feelings of sadness or hopelessness” while nearly 20 percent seriously considered suicide, and nine percent actually did attempt suicide in 2020.

“These data echo a cry for help,” Debra Houry, a CDC deputy director, told the Washington Post. “The COVID-19 pandemic has created traumatic stressors that have the potential to further erode students’ mental well-being.”

The survey results were collected between January and June 2021 — at the height of coronavirus measures — from 7,705 ninth- through twelfth-graders in a nationally representative sample of private and public schools.

While the virus was known early on to affect young persons at a drastically lower rate than adults, the CDC and other government officials were relentless in their advocacy for masking and shuttering schools — both of which contributed heavily to learning loss and mental health issues.

Overall, the study found over 37 percent of students experienced poor mental health at the time the survey was taken. Girls were twice as likely to report poor mental health than boys, though it is unclear if that is due to boys not wanting to answer the question honestly.

In addition, there was a stark contrast in mental health between students who felt connected to persons at school and those who did not. Nearly 79 percent of student respondents reported some level of “virtual learning” — something recommended by the CDC — but only just over 46 percent felt connected to others at school.

Among those who felt connected to others at school, only 28.4 percent reported poor mental health as contrasted with 45.2 percent of those who did not feel connected to others reporting poor mental health.

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The Teen Girls Aren’t Going to Forget
‘It’s like a sci-fi show where people went to sleep and woke up two years later.’ Lockdown is over, but the scars of isolation aren't going away.   
Suzy Weiss
April 5, 2022

Lily May Holland, 16, remembers the long, lonely days during lockdown when her parents, both doctors, were at work. She’d watch “Gilmore Girls” and “Gossip Girl” and “Grey’s Anatomy” over and over. She stopped eating and started doing Chloe Ting workouts. “I’d have gum and a smoothie all day,” she said. They lived in the sticks north of Charlottesville, Virginia, on a dirt road between farms and trailer parks and the occasional Baptist church, and she didn't have a license, so she couldn’t go anywhere or meet any friends. Teachers would post assignments online, but it was like—who cared? Everything happened in isolation, like they were atoms. “I would’ve gone to parties, and me and my friends were planning to go to concerts, and homecoming,” Lily said. “I had crushes freshman year. But all that fell away.”

Teenagers need a social life. Every single study and report and piece of data tells us so. But we don’t need studies to tell us what we all already know. Ask yourself: What would it have been like if you had spent your thirteenth year in solitude?

It was more than a year, actually. Millions of American kids had gone a year-and-a-half mostly alone. And every single girl I spoke to said the same thing about the experience: They felt like they were sinking, or being swallowed up.  ...

It’s hard to know how seriously to take that kind of threat. Eliza Holland pointed out that the share-it-all, hyper-vulnerable format of the internet has different mores than real life. “When you say something like that online, you get a lot of positive reinforcement and you never have to look anyone in the eye. Even if you’re joking, it lands very differently in person.”

Holland spends a few weeks each summer as a volunteer physician at Lily’s sleepover camp in North Carolina. The past two summers, more girls have been homesick than usual. For the older teens, she’s had to send a few home who expressed desires to hurt or kill themselves.

This didn’t start with Covid. “People are growing up more slowly,” said Jean Twenge, a psychologist at San Diego State University and the author of the 2017 book “iGen.” Jonathan Haidt, the psychologist and author of “The Coddling of the American Mind,” traces the downward spiral to 2013 and the explosion of social media. That’s when the helicopter-parented 18-year-olds started to leave home with their iPhones and not much else.

But Covid has dramatically compounded these forces. ...

Read entire article at Substack

[Kamaji]

I have a teen family member who was diagnosed as suffering from severe depression brought on by the isolation forced on her by the covid-19 lockdowns.  She actually spent a week as an in-patient before being released into her parents' care.

This is real, it's tragic, and in a less than insane world there would be real consequences for the people who foisted this on us.

[mountaineer]

Radio host Jesse Kelly asked his listeners and followers to provide personal accounts of how the shutdowns had adversely affected them and their families. He got hundreds of responses, most describing how young people and some adults had killed themselves in despair. Here are some of them:

Donna
@neubauer32
My neighbor’s 21 year old son committed suicide while away at college. He was unable to cope with not being with friends and family. Hardest thing to see a mom’s heart literally break.

Caleb Box
@calebbox
Cousin was an alcoholic.. job moved to work from home 2020. No interactions. Starting drinking up to a gallon of vodka a day. Couldn’t stop. Drank himself to death.

Leah Woods
@liamusik
My 19 year old daughter committed suicide in college in January 2021. Lockdowns, online classes, depression, anxiety, it was all too much and the hopelessness overwhelming.

The twitter thread:

https://twitter.com/JesseKellyDC/status/1511040771025215495