I have seen these articles. One dollar doesn't cover the cost of gallon of milk, annual rent increases, car expenses (if someone can actually afford one), new shoes, a book needed for school. There is sooo much more that needs to happen.
The New York Times - "The Soaring Rate of Suicide by Young People" - First, and perhaps most challenging, we need to address some of the underlying causes: a profoundly broken economy that robs young people of opportunities for a healthy and productive life, a constant news cycle full of dire predictions, and, of course, access to lethal means like guns.
The first steps to treatment ignores the fact that we face a dire shortage of medical professionals, especially psychiatrists like Dr. Friedman himself, who can properly prescribe medication and provide accompanying therapy — the combination proven most effective in treating both depression and anxiety.
"a time of relentless school shootings and obvious evidence of climate change that the depression of teenagers is attributed to media and drugs" - "the causes of young people's depression and despair: the isolation, cyber-preoccupation and bullying he mentions, and the feelings of inadequacy and uncertainty that fuel and compound them"
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