Forbes July 15, 2023
During the second year of the Covid-19 pandemic, the mental health crisis among adolescents got so severe that the number of emergency room visits for teenage girls in the United States increased by at least 22%, according to a recent study published in JAMA Psychiatry.
“The pandemic exacerbated stressors among youth, including social isolation, school disruptions, and parental unemployment, and rates of depression and anxiety have doubled since the start of the pandemic. In 2021, 20% of high school students seriously considered suicide, and 9% attempted suicide,” the researchers wrote.
To delve into how severe the mental health crisis got during 2021, the team closely studied private health insurance claims that were submitted from March 2019 to February 2022. The...
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