CDC: more teenage girls have been contemplating suicide than in previous years.

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CDC says teen girls are caught in an extreme wave of sadness and violence

A new report finds an "overwhelming wave of violence and trauma" and never-before-seen levels of hopelessness and suicidal thoughts among high school students in the U.S.
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Imagine being 16 and feeling you've already lived too long and have no hope for the future :picard: this country continues to fail its young people.
 
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It’s the social media duh

Remember when that bombshell dropped that Facebook basically had done research proving that social media was harmful to the psyches of it’s users but didn’t tell anybody about the results ?

The demographic most affected was young women.

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Managing the Effects of Social Media on Teen Girls

Frequent social media use has been found to disproportionately impact teen girls’ mental health more negatively than teen boys. Mental health outcomes include cyberbullying, lack of sleep and negative self-image.
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News article doesnt talk about social media usage

At least 52% of teenagers who identified as gay, lesbian, bisexual or questioning said they struggled with mental health. (The survey did not ask whether a person was transgender.)

LGBTQ+ kids "experience much more interpersonal stress from schools, from peers and from home, unfortunately," Julie Cerel, a licensed psychologist and director of the Suicide Prevention & Exposure Lab at the University of Kentucky told NBC News.

The CDC survey found that more than 1 in 5 such youth — 22% — had attempted suicide within the past year. Stigma and violence toward LGBTQ+ teenagers largely contributed to their poor mental health.
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Sexual violence, too, has risen among girls, with 1 in 5 saying they'd experienced it within the past year, the CDC said. Fourteen percent said they had been forced into having sex. That's a jump from 11% of teen girls who said they'd been sexually assaulted in 2019.
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Dr. Victor Fornari, the vice chair of child and adolescent psychiatry for Northwell Health, New York’s largest health system, noted that the drop in teen well-being coincided with the rise of smartphones. Although the technology’s full impact on adolescents’ mental health is still unknown, he said, there is “no question” of an association between the use of social media and the dramatic increase in suicidal behavior and depressive mood.

“Kids are now vulnerable to cyberbullying and critical comments, like ‘I hate you’, ‘Nobody likes you,’” he said. “It’s like harpoons to their heart every time.”

More girls than boys reported being cyber-bullied, according to the C.D.C. report, which found one in five girls said they had been the target of electronic bullying, almost double the 11 percent of boys.
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Teen Girls Report Record Levels of Sadness, C.D.C. Finds (Published 2023)

Adolescent girls reported high rates of sadness, suicidal thoughts and sexual violence, as did teenagers who identified as gay or bisexual.
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