Study: Number of children going to ER with suicidal thoughts and attempts has doubled
"Diagnoses of either condition increased
from 580,000 in 2007 to 1.12 million in 2015, according to the
study, published
Monday in JAMA Pediatrics. The average age of a child at the
time of evaluation
was 13, and 43% of the visits were in children between 5 and
11. "The numbers are
very alarming,"
said Dr. Brett Burstein, the lead study author and a pediatric
emergency room
physician...
http://tinyurl.com/y6h3chsu
Child suicide attempts are skyrocketing in the US, but nobody knows why
International student is found dead sparking
police probe into
'sudden death' in Bristol where 12 university students have
taken their own
lives since 2016
http://tinyurl.com/y2hp34zc
Teen who was allergic to WiFi commits suicide
The
mom told the court she had pleaded with her daughter’s
teachers to allow her to
work in rooms without Wi-Fi, but the school refused.
Canadian hospitals stretched as self-harming
teens seek help
"We're seeing twice as many kids as we
were 10 years ago," said Dr. Hazen Gandy, division chief of
community-based psychiatry at the Children's Hospital of
Eastern Ontario in
Ottawa. "Commonly it's
cutting," he said of kids typically aged 12 to 17 who slash
their arms,
thighs or bellies with everything from razor blades to the
sharp edges of
protractors.
'I felt helpless': Teachers call for support amid
'escalating
crisis' of classroom violence
Classrooms in Crisis: Verbal, physical, sometimes
violent
outbursts plaguing Oregon classrooms.
Prince
George school
counsellors say mental health situation is at a crisis point
Momo Is A Red
Flag – The internet is not a safe
nor a happy place for our children.
In 2018 Blue Cross Blue Shield Association
release findings showing a 64% rise in depression in teens
between 2013 and
2016 with the Center for Disease Control reporting in 2016 a
concurrent 30%
rise in suicide. Jean Twenge’s 2017 research found that teens
who spend five or
more hours per day on their devices are 71
percent more likely to have one risk factor for suicide
regardless of
the content consumed
Peer-reviewed Studies
Increases in Depressive Symptoms,
Suicide-Related Outcomes, and Suicide Rates Among U.S.
Adolescents After 2010
and Links to Increased New Media Screen Time
Microwave frequency electromagnetic fields
(EMFs) produce widespread neuropsychiatric effects including
depression
Wi-Fi is an important threat to human health
Electromagnetic Fields, Pulsed Radiofrequency
Radiation, and Epigenetics: How Wireless Technologies May
Affect Childhood
Development
Rats exposed to 2.45GHz of non-ionizing
radiation exhibit behavioral changes within creased brain
expression of
apoptotic caspase 3
Effects of 1.8 GHz Radiofrequency Fields on
the Emotional Behavior and Spatial Memory of Adolescent Mice.
Electromagnetic Fields, Pulsed Radiofrequency
Radiation, and Epigenetics: How Wireless Technologies May
Affect Childhood
Development. Child Dev. doi:10.1111/cdev.12824
Depression,
anxiety, and smartphone addiction in university students- A
cross sectional
study
