COVID-19: Two-thirds of B.C. youth struggling with mental health during the pandemic, new research shows New research by B.C. Children s Hospital shows two-thirds of children in B.C. reported having mood swings, anxiety or suicidal thoughts during the pandemic, up from just one-third before the arrival of COVID-19.
Author of the article: Lori Culbert
Publishing date: Apr 24, 2021 • 3 hours ago • 8 minute read Lana is struggling with her mental health since the pandemic began. She s shown here with her mom Susan. Photo by Francis Georgian /PNG
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Two thirds of children and youth in British Columbia are struggling with mild-to-moderate mental health challenges during the pandemic, up from one third before the arrival of COVID-19, says new research from B.C. Children’s Hospital.
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Climate weighs on mental health
Teens, young adults particularly affected by fear, anxiety By Brian Contreras, Los Angeles Times
Published: January 12, 2021, 6:02am
Share: Several burnt vehicles and charred tree trunks are what s left of a homestead in Berry Creek, Calif., after the North Complex Fire in September. (Carolyn Cole/Los Angeles Time)
Maddie Cole in eighth grade stopped running cross country. She’d competed the year before, but the air quality in her native Sacramento, Calif., was so bad that she got sick during a race; she soon learned she had asthma.
The next year the sky above Sacramento turned gray with smoke from the 2018 Camp Fire. Maddie and her classmates went to school with masks on. “It felt,” she said, “like a futuristic apocalypse.”
December 29, 2020
You would protect children from monsters. Please protect them from the fossil fuel industrypic.twitter.com/fUstIrGiCh Peter Kalmus (@ClimateHuman) November 23, 2020
There s a myth that young people get anxious or depressed when people talk about the reality of the climate crisis.
My experience is the opposite.
The worst part is denial, looking away, downplaying or spreading false hope saying ”we ll fix this” without taking sufficient action. Greta Thunberg (@GretaThunberg) December 28, 2020
Maddie Cole in eighth grade stopped running cross country. She’d competed the year before, but the air quality in her native Sacramento was so bad that she got sick during a race; she soon learned she had asthma.
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