In an opinion piece in the New York Times (1/6), psychiatrist Richard A. Friedman, MD, writes that statistics show that an alarming number of teenagers and young adults in the US “are suffering from depression and dying by suicide,” with the suicide rate jumping 56% among Americans ages 10 to 24 between 2007 and 2017, according to CDC data. Dr. Friedman says that “there are lots of theories but few definitive answers” when it comes to explaining the teen depression and suicide epidemic. Dr. Friedman then calls for “a major public campaign to educate parents and teachers to recognize depression in young people and to learn about the warning signs of suicide.”
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— “Why Are Young Americans Killing Themselves?, “Richard A. Friedman, The New York Times, January 6, 2020