Alone and sad, CNY’s kids suffer: ‘I just want to feel better and I don’t know how’
Updated Feb 19, 2021;
Posted Feb 18, 2021
Mental health professionals and parents say kids are experiencing both new and more severe mental health problems caused by isolation. Illustration: Andrea LevyAdvance Local Graphic Artist
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A 10-year-old with a journal full of suicidal thoughts and plans.
A girl who had sliced so many cuts into her arm the doctor could not count them.
In a two-week span earlier this year, Dr. Robert Dracker referred 12 children for in-patient psychiatric care.
“The ways children have thought about actually killing themselves,” Dracker said, “I’ve never seen this.”