There has been a 50 percent increase in the number of emergency room admissions concerning girls and women with self-inflicted injuries, according to the Volkskrant. The patients range in age from 10 to 30 years old, were assessed as having either attempted suicide, or seriously and intentionally causing injury to themselves.
The mental health of teenagers in the Netherlands deteriorated in the past years. Girls in secondary education especially report more emotional-, behavioral, and concentration problems than five years earlier, according to a study by Utrecht University and the Trimbos Instituut among 4,800 school children between the ages of 12 and 16.