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US Depression and anxiety rates have been a constant and very threatening statistic for centuries. From 2 year old children to adults in everyday life, mental instability is increasing in almost every form of humanity, but is also being solved in very creative and helpful ways. Here's what you need to know.
Depression
- As of 2021, the MHA has documented that 9.7% of the US youth population is dealing with major depression, which contrasts to a 9.2% in 2020. That means that roughly 32,150,580 children in the US were struggling or diagnosed with major depression. This number rises to 12.4% when analyzing depression rates between youth that identify as more than one race.
-While states do tend to have a surplus of resources in specific places, between 2017 and 2018, 60% of children struggling with depression did not receive mental assistance or help. This includes places where mental health resources are abundant; 38% of youth still fails to find resource or have explicit access to them.
-Depression rates were documented to be roughly 5.4% as of 2003, and have now surged to 9.4% in 2021. This means that by 2030, depression rates among teens will be estimated to surge to 14.65% in specific states.
Anxiety
-As of March 2021, 7.1% of children aged 3-17 have diagnosed anxiety.
-From January to September 2020, 315,220 people took the anxiety screen, a 93 percent increase over the 2019 total number of anxiety screens.
-Between January and September of 2020, roughly 77,000 children reported thinking about suicide over half of every day. 28,000 of these children were members of the LGBTQIA+ community.
-The effects of decreasing mental health is close to a domino effect: Almost 3 in 4 children with depression also have anxiety, and almost 1 in every 2 have behavior problems.
PTSD & Behavior Problems
-pstd.va.gov claims that between 15-43 percent of girls and 14-43 percent of boys experience a traumatic event in their lifetime. Between these percentages, about 7% of girls and 4% of boys will leave their traumatic experience with PTSD.
-The popular journal Health Affairs claims that half of all children in the US have experienced a family-oriented or social related trauma.
-Children exposed to multiple traumas in their life were more likely to experience problems in the future such as obesity, ADHD, asthma, and a disassociation from school/education.
ADD & ADHD
-As of June 2021, 6,088,000 children between the ages 2-17 have been diagnosed with ADHD alone.
-ADHD was statistically documented to affect roughly 6.1% of US children between 1997-1998. By 2016-2017, that number had risen to 10.2% in youth between 4-17.
-Nearly 1 in every 5 children struggle with a major mental instability such as depression, anxiety, ADHD, or Tourette's Syndrome. However, only 20% of these children with mental, social, or behavioral issues receive constant medical support.
-Many schools are ran in traditional forms, and therefore don't provide much support for students with ADHD. However, the 20th century has introduced many new ideas for schools to connect more with students struggling with ADHD in order to set up a more diverse and inclusive environment. Some of these adjustments include longer recess, innovative testing methods, sensory teaching methods, technological advancements in classrooms, and much more.
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