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    Suicide rates among young people in England rose 50% in 10 years, figures show
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    Suicide rates among young people in England rose 50% in 10 years, figures show

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    1. Wagamaga on

      Suicide rates among children and young people in England have increased by 50% in the last decade, figures show.

      The Office for National Statistics analysed data covering almost 12 million children and young people aged between 15 and 25 from 2011-12 to 2021-22. There were 4,315 suicides across the whole period.

    3. ShinyHappyPurple on

      We need urgent investment in a children and young adults mental health service while we do the longer term work of making sure there are children’s services/youth clubs and teenagers can grow up and have some confidence they can make it in the world via legitimate work and one day even buy their own home.

    4. NothingIsReal6 on

      Life has gotten 100x times harder for young people in the last 10 years, is this a surprise to anyone

    5. lordnacho666 on

      It’s social media. This is not a UK only phenomenon. Look up Jonathan Haidt, he’s written about this.

    6. sjintje on

      >The ONS found “small significant differences” between the suicide rates for males and females across the school year.
      Suicide rates among females were highest in early May, at 0.53 for every 100,000 people, compared with 0.29 per 100,000 in early July.
      The figures for males ranged from a peak of 1.26 in early July to a low of 0.85 in late November.

      It’s a bit weird that the didn’t expand on the most obvious difference.

    7. Rimbo90 on

      Maybe give them ONE thing.

      Just one thing.

      Any thing.

      To look forward to.

      I’m not joking when I say I can’t remember the last bit of genuinely good news I’ve read.

    10. unbelievablydull82 on

      My daughter has been sectioned three times in 18 months, by this point, time has blended together so much it could be in the past two years. The mental health support has been astonishingly bad. She has been in her current unit for 4 months, in which time a staff member raised a chair at her aggressively, another one was bragging about how he came into the country on a fake passport, and a doctor has been suspended for kissing a patient, which has led the patient trying to take her life.

    11. existentialgoof on

      All we need then is even more nanny state initiatives to make sure that they don’t have the opportunity to end their lives, and then everything will be looking alright again. Might I suggest banning all sharp and pointy objects and having teams visit all the homes around the country to sand down any sharp edges and install padding to the walls?

    12. pajamakitten on

      COVID knocked everyone for six, the economy is only benefiting a select few people, the job market is awful, they are almost certainly never owning a house, climate change is going to cause a lot of turmoil and people do not want to admit that…Can you blame them for feeling suicidal when the future looks so bleak?

      I know people will just say to get offline and go outside but they will have to live with reality at some point. They cannot ignore their future prospects when they are staring them in the face.