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Observe your kids mental health right now, experts say. The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline #Be 1 campaign shares steps a person can do to prevent suicide.
Most of our kids have been navigating the new, challenging standard for almost a year, like social isolation, intensely depressed parents, and the consequences of financial uncertainty.
While Covid-19 has primarily spared children s physical health, studies have shown that it has taken a toll on their mental health, correlated with a rise in behaviors linked to suicide, experts claim.
As of 2018, before the pandemic hit, suicide was the second leading cause of death among kids and teenagers aged 10 to 19 in the United States. A new pre-publication, peer-reviewed study in the journal Pediatrics found some increases, while suicide attempts and ideation were not consistently more severe in 2020.
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