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Increased suicide rates among youths between ages 5 and 19 have coincided with growing shortages of mental health care providers at the county level, according to the results of a new study.
For a long time, people worried that talking about suicide was dangerous. What’s really dangerous is refusing to talk about it. | Opinion
Last year, the Boise area hit a terrible milestone: Sixteen young people died by suicide in Ada County, according to data shared by the Ada County Sheriff’s Office. That compares with one in 2022.
The ongoing youth mental health crisis refers to the significant rise in mental health challenges among adolescents and young adults in the US, [1] Canada, [2] the UK, [3] and Europe. [4] The trend began in the early 2010s and escalated during the COVID-19 pandemic. [5] Notable issues include increasing rates of depression, anxiety, self-harm ...
From 2003 to 2023, the suicide rate for Black youth increased faster than any other racial or ethnic group. [9] By 2021, suicide rates were increasing for Black children. [10] From 2022, the suicide rate of Black youth exceeded that of White youth for the first time. [11]
Suicide rates for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning youth and adults in the U.S. are three times higher than national averages. [11] According to some groups, this is linked to heterocentric cultures and institutionalised homophobia ; in some cases, including the exploitation of LGBTQ people as a political wedge issue, such as ...
Idaho had the fifth-highest youth suicide rate in the U.S. from 1999 to 2020, according to the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. One of the things we can do is to address the ...
Canada, a country with a comparatively low suicide rate overall at 10.3 incidents per 100,000 people in 2016, exhibits one such discrepancy. When comparing the suicide rate of Indigenous peoples in Canada, the rate of suicide increases to 24.3 incidents per 100,000 people in 2016, [18] a rate among the ten highest in the world. There are ...