NAKHUYALITY https://www.inverse.com/article/55928-teen-suicide-rates-are-rising-in-girlsWhether it’s due to social media, political turmoil, or lack of sleep, American teenagers are facing a mental health crisis. In August 2018, the CDC reported that suicidal ideation had risen among teens in the past decade, and a paper published Friday in JAMA Network Open shows that the rise in completed suicides have accelerated in one group in particular.
Beginning in 2007, the authors report, the rate of suicides among adolescent girls began to outpace the rate of suicides among boys. This finding contradicts the previous pattern in suicide behavior in young adults, sometimes called the “gender paradox.” Historically, boys have taken their own lives at far higher rates than girls have.