Ninety percent of LGBTQ+ youth said their well-being has been negatively impacted by recent politics, according to a new survey from The Trevor Project.
“diseases of despair” which includes but is not limited to suicides and overdoses has been steadily on the rise for over a decade in the U.S and so far as we know suicides reached an all-time high in 2022.-I’m betting they just haven’t collected and presented the 2023 data yet.
Confirms what I was thinking about rates on the rise. Thanks!
I think it’s dangerous to say that politics are causing suicides rather than “we have a mental health crisis”. A lot more reasons for previous generations of oppressed people to kill themselves , it maybe we weren’t keeping track as much then.
“diseases of despair” which includes but is not limited to suicides and overdoses has been steadily on the rise for over a decade in the U.S and so far as we know suicides reached an all-time high in 2022. -I’m betting they just haven’t collected and presented the 2023 data yet.
Confirms what I was thinking about rates on the rise. Thanks!
I think it’s dangerous to say that politics are causing suicides rather than “we have a mental health crisis”. A lot more reasons for previous generations of oppressed people to kill themselves , it maybe we weren’t keeping track as much then.