Talking about suicide causes youth to consider suicide.
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Talking about suicide causes youth to consider suicide. False Talking Helps Many teens who are contemplating suicide want to talk about it although may not initiate the conversation True Many teens who are contemplating suicide want to talk
Talking Helps
Many teens who are contemplating suicide want to talk about it although may not initiate the conversation
True
Many teens who are contemplating suicide want to talk about it although
may not initiate the conversation
True
More teens & young adults die from suicide than from cancer, heart disease, AIDS, birth defects, stroke, pneumonia, influenza, and chronic lung disease, COMBINED
True
Most teens who die of suicide had an untreatable mental illness
False
90% Treatable
Whites and Hispanics have the highest rates of suicide.
False
Natives & Whites
Today's teens are more stressed than adults
True
Anxiety can cause depression
True
Too much stress can lead to Anxiety and Depression
True
Anxiety is the 2nd most commonly diagnosed mental health condition
False
Anxiety
Ages 12-17 years
2006
1 in 10
2016
1 in 5
Nearly 5% of teens experience a serious bout of Major Depression in High School
False
Depression
1 in 8 teens
Depression
1 in 5 get help
Many teens who self harm are “pre-suicidal”
False
1 in 4 Self Injure
1 out of 10 Teen Girls has a diagnosable Eating Disorder
False
Eating Disorders
1 in 4 teen girls
More than half of young people with a mobile device have sent or received a sext message
True
50% Sext
Why are youth
hurting more today?