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LTRP Note:<\/strong> The following news story is posted for informational purposes.<\/p>\n

By Jean Twenge<\/strong>
\n Business Insider<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Around 2012, something started going wrong in the lives of teens.<\/p>\n

\"Bigstockphoto.com\"In just the five years between 2010 and 2015, the number of U.S. teens who felt useless and joyless \u2013 classic symptoms of depression \u2013 surged 33 percent in large national surveys. Teen suicide attempts increased 23 percent. Even more troubling, the number of 13- to 18-year-olds who committed suicide jumped 31 percent.<\/p>\n

In a new paper published in Clinical Psychological Science, my colleagues and I found that the increases in depression, suicide attempts and suicide appeared among teens from every background \u2013 more privileged and less privileged, across all races and ethnicities and in every region of the country. All told, our analysis found that the generation of teens I call “iGen” \u2013 those born after 1995 \u2013 is much more likely to experience mental health issues than their millennial predecessors.<\/p>\n

What happened so that so many more teens, in such a short period of time, would feel depressed, attempt suicide and commit suicide? Click here<\/a> to continue reading.<\/p>\n

(photo from bigstockphoto.com; used with permission)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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