Kind of annoying that this text is in a graphic, but I'll type it out: "From 1998-2005 the survey only targeted public schools. Then from 2006 onwards, it included private schools, and from 2013 onwards, also high school correspondence courses".<p>If you look at the graph, between 1998 and 2005 there was a decrease in suicide rates. It jumps up in 2006 (right when private schools are added). It should be noted that private schools often include the most troubled teens at high school. If you do not pass your entrance exams, you must go to a private high school. If you are expelled from public school you must also go to a private school. The rate jumps again in 2013 when correspondence high schools are added. It should be noted that correspondence schools have the most troubled teens in them. The are for people who either originally did not attend high school (dropped out after mandatory junior high school), or who were expelled both from public school <i>and</i> private schools. These are people for whom their life is essentially wrecked from the age of 15 and who are trying very hard to get it back to some kind of order. It is also important to understand that correspondence high school includes students who are much older than typical high school students.<p>It <i>is</i> worrying that the junior high school rate has climbed over the last few years (though it's still inline with data from the late 80's and early nineties). However, the high school data appears to me to be a combination of not comparing apples to apples along with a possible statistical outlier in 2018. Given the poor treatment of this data, I would not be surprised if there is another reason for the spike in 2018.
Same as New Zealand. To be honest it isn't super surprising.<p>The youth of today are going to inherit a far more screwed up world, and people are surprised they "opt out" of that.
I very much suspect the dangerous idea of the "bliss point" is to blame, as is marketing unhealthy food. No way is a mind going to develop right when it is constantly bombarded with false hunger signals.