The boys have been depressed for over two decades, with 100,000 of them dying of despair this year, about the same as died in WWI. The girls are now depressed too, schools discovered this month.
We have a young woman friend, in law school, who told us when she gets a panic attack sometimes she blacks out.
Girls have been depressed before this year of course; but this year schools apparently woke up to it, and started asking for more mental health counselors for their schools. There is a tiny (compared to male suicide rates) uptick in females taking their own lives. But alarming as the loss of every life is, it pales to the death-by-despair numbers being recorded by the CDC for young men. Schools still have no intention of reducing the biggest cause of suicide for their male students: gender discrimination in GPA, preventing smart boys from going to, and graduating from, college.
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