The article listed a few statistics that are absolutely critical, i.e.:
Two to three percent of children ages six to 12 can have depression.
Between 1-2% of children as young as three years of age are depressed, and
More than 7% of children aged three to seven have anxiety disorders.
These statistics are not so foreign to us here at home.
A few weeks ago, we read of the suicide of a nine-year-old girl who hung herself with a sarong at her bedroom window.
Neither is this incident the first we have read on the suicide of a child.
In February (2021), the Green Ribbon Group published an infographic on the mental health landscape of children and adolescents in Malaysia.
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