[HN Gopher] Children's Hospital Colorado declares mental health ...
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Children's Hospital Colorado declares mental health state of
emergency
Author : AndrewBissell
Score : 20 points
Date : 2021-05-25 19:50 UTC (3 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (coloradosun.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (coloradosun.com)
| readonthegoapp wrote:
| most of the recent articles i've seen have been saying, "Why
| didn't more people kill themselves during the pandemic??"
|
| and now we have this. i think that doctor's diagnosis sounded
| reasonable -- kids have run out of resilience -- their tanks are
| empty.
|
| and that's prob true of a lot of people.
|
| i think the Trump Administration's handling of the pandemic
| pushed most people at least to the edge, if not over it.
|
| Cuomo and the rest of the Dem governors and Mayors (De Blasio,
| Newsome, Witmer, etc.) were just as wanton in their disregard for
| humanity (and that, imo, is being generous).
|
| Whether the CDC was intentionally handicapped and turned into a
| malevolent force, or was help along by misinformation 'heroes'
| like Fauci, the effect was brutal.
|
| Biden's CDC is seemingly only marginally less worse.
|
| The GOP/Republicans - literally the most dangerous orgnization in
| the history of the world - have been fighting climate change
| legislation for decades, trying to send us all to our doom, so
| their misinformation about Covid was to be expected, and in
| context, is really almost nothing in comparison.
|
| Fox News runs wild with racism and white supremacy and conspiracy
| and misinfo.
|
| Facebook and other mass media outlets are completely
| uncontrolled, and we're unwilling to regulate them, regardless of
| the obvious havoc and destruction they are bringing.
|
| We had an attempted coup with almost no consequences at all. The
| US is not Chile or some other small democracy -- we're one of the
| few countries that can end the world in a single moment of
| insanity.
|
| The origins of Covid itself have not been properly investigated,
| in part because US investors are so dependent on China's
| manufacturing -- and US conglomerates so dependent on China's
| population as prospective customers (e.g. NBA).
|
| As adults, presumably we have at least _some_ control over our
| situations. For kids, it must often be torture -- right out of a
| CIA playbook -- make them feel the loss of control/agency.
|
| The extreme capriciousnous of covid is now seemingly reflected in
| everyday life for most people, but especially anyone without real
| agency (kids, the poor/working class, the elderly, etc.).
|
| And global warming risks/effects like Covid are just starting to
| hockey-stick.
|
| failed political system. failed media. failed health care system.
| failing civil society. failing nation.
|
| i'm not ready to give up, but we're in a bad way, and i feel like
| these Colorado kids might be sending us a desperate message -- we
| need to act differently, or maybe just act at all.
| mensetmanusman wrote:
| I always wonder about what would have happened if covid had been
| age flipped, eg killing the young and sparing the elderly.
|
| With no political and economic power, would children's health
| have had the same impact on the world?
|
| Consider that a growing number of bureaucrats have never raised
| children...
| a3n wrote:
| I have absolutely no doubt that Colorado and elsewhere needs
| greater immediate treatment options.
|
| And that the pandemic had contributed to the crisps.
|
| However, the article says this problem had been increasing for
| years.
|
| What in society causes so many kids to kill themselves? Why is it
| getting worse? What should be done?
| pickle-wizard wrote:
| I can't say for sure is causing the crisis in teenager, since I
| don't have one, and haven't been one since the Clinton
| administration. However I have a hypothesis.
|
| I have seen a decline in mental health among my peer group,
| myself included. One common thread is an existential dread.
| Climate change, the current state of political discourse, the
| pandemic, the declining middle class, the raising costs of
| medical care, out of control education costs, and so on. It
| just leaves you with a feeling that you are screwed and there
| is nothing to do about it.
|
| Teenagers are pretty aware of what is going on in the world,
| probably more now than ever. All this plus the normal teenage
| problems, and new problems like cyber bullying. This is just
| too much for someone who hasn't had time to build their coping
| skills.
| 908B64B197 wrote:
| We also live in a much more competitive world than before.
|
| Just look at the number of spots at top universities (didn't
| scale with population growth) and the number of applications
| the average student sends.
| opwieurposiu wrote:
| Social media use, and mollycoddling by parents.
|
| https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jan/10/by-mol...
| aaron-santos wrote:
| > What in society causes so many kids to kill themselves? Why
| is it getting worse? What should be done?
|
| Here's a radical thought: ask kids what's wrong. Find
| commonalities in their responses and then enact real change to
| address the issue. What we shouldn't do is give them platitudes
| like "things will get better, just wait." They don't have time
| to wait. This isn't a problem that we can solve by deduction
| from first principles.
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