[narrator]

Here is a terrible awful fact most people are unaware of: The suicide rate has been going up steadily since 2000 and we are back where we were in the mid 1980s[1]. I found this out by listening to a speech from a mental health convention where the doctor giving the speech was blasting the commonly held idea that antidepressants had solved everything.

[1] https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/04/22/4748888...

[Bucephalus355]

The suicide rate for 10-14 year olds has increased over 250% since 2007.

[himom]

Palo Alto has permanent 24/7 suicide-by-train watch at all major crossings. Those folks sit out all night, even in heavy downpours, under a flimsy vinyl personal shelter and what amounts to a beach chair.

[georgebarnett]

This is shocking.

Could you please provide a reference so I may link others to this?

[Bucephalus355]

Dr. Jean Twenge from UC San Diego and CDC Mortality Statistics.

BTW the 250% number is for boys only. For girls 10-14, it’s about 325%.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/09/has-the...

[loceng]

It's terribly disturbing.

I believe the majority of antidepressants like SSRIs, if not all of them, all have warnings that they increase suicidal ideation/suicide, higher than if given placebo. This part of the health industrial complex is perhaps the epitome, where when complex environmental factors are at play, however instead of those being addressed - in the person's life, in the family, in the society - we offer a little, relatively cheap pill and hope that will solve it (along perhaps with years of therapy). The system is broken, it's dis-eased, and it's self-perpetuating to maintain the status quo.

[tim333]

Though globally and over longer periods things are more complicated. The US adolescent thing while terrible is a special case https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/05/Suicide-...