Local news outlets are reporting an increase in suicide completions by young people. Two contributing factors for this alarming increase are that more children (as early as eight years old), teens, and young adults are suffering from anxiety and depression. Other youth and young adults are engaging in self-harming behaviors such as cutting, plucking, eating disorders, sexual promiscuity and/or binge drinking. When we […]
Sometimes Life Is Hard
WRITTEN BY: Jami Dellifield, Family and Consumer Sciences Educator, Hardin County
REVIEWED BY: Donna Green, Extension Educator, Family and Consumer Sciences, Ohio State University Extension, Erie County, green.308@osu.edu
PHOTO CREDITS:
- http://creatingcommunitysolutions.org/texttalkact
- https://pixabay.com/en/mental-health-mental-health-cloud-1389919/
SOURCES:
- http://www.samhsa.gov/
- www.mentalhealth.gov
- www.youth.gov
- https://www.mentalhealthfirstaid.org/cs/
- http://creatingcommunitysolutions.org/texttalkact
- http://www.nami.org/Learn-More/Mental-Health-By-the-Numbers