Mental health professionals believe the pandemic, and the measures taken to fight it, have resulted in a surge in children and adolescents experiencing symptoms. Depression, anxiety and suicidal thoughts, as well as disruptive behavior patterns, are on the rise. These challenges, in turn, are contributing to the learning loss that schools across the country have experienced.
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Christina Caron, The New York Times
Published: 04 Jul 2021 11:33 AM BdST
Updated: 04 Jul 2021 11:33 AM BdST Kate, 12, at her home in Colorado on June 10, 2021. She has been in therapy for years to cope with sensory processing disorder, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and anxiety. (Rachel Woolf/The New York Times)
When Marie, 11, called a suicide prevention hotline in October, nobody saw it coming. Not even Marie herself, who had been bottling up feelings of loneliness and sadness for months without telling anyone. );
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Her relationships with some of her closest friends had started to suffer when school went online last year, and she worried about losing other people in her life, too. What if they moved away? What if they died?