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October 25, 2016

Sometimes Life Is Hard

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 […]

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

Categories: Family and Relationships, Mind and Body
Tags: anxiety, cutting, depression, mental health, self-harm, suicide, teens

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