No wonder children are experiencing more anxiety, depression and suicidal thoughts

No wonder children are experiencing more anxiety, depression and suicidal thoughts

America’s teenagers and young adults are experiencing a “troubling rise” in anxiety, depression, emergency room visits, suicidal thoughts, and suicide, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, psychological and psychiatric organizations, schools, and other observers are reporting … yet again.

CDC’s 2023 Youth Risk Behavior Survey found that 40 percent of American students experienced persistent feelings of hopelessness, 28 percent experienced poor mental health, 20 percent seriously considered attempting suicide, and 10 percent had attempted suicide.

The researchers attribute this in part to isolation during the COVID-19 pandemic and from using computers, cell phones, social media, and AI as substitutes for personal interactions; to bullying, educational pressures, family discord, and socio-economic disadvantages; and to declining faith, spirituality, and moral values.

These are undoubtedly major factors – and serious challenges for family, medical, educational, religious, and societal institutions – and for all who strive to be strong, social, resilient individuals and families.

However, we should add to these causes the near-constant negativity presented by liberal/leftist teachers, journalists, and social media influencers about our nation’s and Western civilization’s “horrible” history, culture, and values. Especially when they ignore other nations’ dogmas and histories of rape, murder, slavery, and forced conversion of “subhuman” and “infidel” or otherwise “deficient” or “uncooperative” people across Asia and the Maghreb, deep into Africa, and by Lenin, Stalin, Mao, and Pol Pot.

We should also attribute this “troubling rise” to similarly constant academic, online, and media fearmongering about endless “environmental perils” – and even more so to doom-and-gloom brainwashing alleging that “our planet’s health and all forms of life on it are........

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