KevinMD September 23, 2024
An excerpt from Facing Suicide: Understanding Why People Kill Themselves and How We Can Stop Them.
Between 2000 and 2007, suicide rates were almost stagnant for young people between the ages of ten and twenty-four. Then they began moving steadily upward. By 2018, suicides in this age group had increased 57.4 percent from 2007 levels. An economic crisis darkened that period, and according to online posts, some seventeen- and eighteen-year-olds felt like a burden because their families were overwhelmed by household expenses and had too many mouths to feed.
But something else was happening in the background. Social media was gaining a real foothold. In the past ten years, social network platforms have more than quadrupled their number of users—from...
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