Children's Hospital Colorado declares mental health state of emergency

I worry about the kids that have haven&#x27;t received attention due to suppression of their parents. I think we all know that the voices of our kids&#x2F;children don&#x27;t generally hold the same weight that an adult does and I worry that with increased impact to mental health that kids are being pushed to breaking point because they aren&#x27;t being listened to.<p>My other concern is that whilst the contributors to mental health can be incredibly broad I do feel that the attention needs to be paid more in understanding the &quot;why&quot;. We can&#x27;t reduce the numbers of kids walking into emergency rooms with mental health problems by creating more beds. We need to understand the root causes, which I am sure they understand the importance of.<p>One of the hypothesis I have is the fear for the future, often depression comes when you have dread for the future. We know that the cost of living is extremely high, the dream of owning a home and starting a family are becoming increasingly more challenging for even those in the middle class. That&#x27;s not to say this hasn&#x27;t ever been challenging, but I do think that it is significantly more challenging. Couple that with social media painting false images of our peers and the pressures to be doing something amazing are making it difficult for people to navigate life as an average person.<p>As a side note, I remember a decade ago when I graduated high school I remember being under so much pressure (placed on myself) to get into University because in my bleak view of the world at the time I couldn&#x27;t shake the idea that if I didn&#x27;t make it, I wasn&#x27;t going to have the future I wanted.

I have absolutely no doubt that Colorado and elsewhere needs greater immediate treatment options.<p>And that the pandemic had contributed to the crisps.<p>However, the article says this problem had been increasing for years.<p>What in society causes so many kids to kill themselves? Why is it getting worse? What should be done?

I always wonder about what would have happened if covid had been age flipped, eg killing the young and sparing the elderly.<p>With no political and economic power, would children’s health have had the same impact on the world?<p>Consider that a growing number of bureaucrats have never raised children…

I have a paranoia that environmental toxicity is having psychological effects that are not acute enough to be obvious, but are nevertheless eroding our mental health. Aka, the boiling frog metaphor.

most of the recent articles i&#x27;ve seen have been saying, &quot;Why didn&#x27;t more people kill themselves during the pandemic??&quot;<p>and now we have this. i think that doctor&#x27;s diagnosis sounded reasonable -- kids have run out of resilience -- their tanks are empty.<p>and that&#x27;s prob true of a lot of people.<p>i think the Trump Administration&#x27;s handling of the pandemic pushed most people at least to the edge, if not over it.<p>Cuomo and the rest of the Dem governors and Mayors (De Blasio, Newsome, Witmer, etc.) were just as wanton in their disregard for humanity (and that, imo, is being generous).<p>Whether the CDC was intentionally handicapped and turned into a malevolent force, or was help along by misinformation &#x27;heroes&#x27; like Fauci, the effect was brutal.<p>Biden&#x27;s CDC is seemingly only marginally less worse.<p>The GOP&#x2F;Republicans - literally the most dangerous orgnization in the history of the world - have been fighting climate change legislation for decades, trying to send us all to our doom, so their misinformation about Covid was to be expected, and in context, is really almost nothing in comparison.<p>Fox News runs wild with racism and white supremacy and conspiracy and misinfo.<p>Facebook and other mass media outlets are completely uncontrolled, and we&#x27;re unwilling to regulate them, regardless of the obvious havoc and destruction they are bringing.<p>We had an attempted coup with almost no consequences at all. The US is not Chile or some other small democracy -- we&#x27;re one of the few countries that can end the world in a single moment of insanity.<p>The origins of Covid itself have not been properly investigated, in part because US investors are so dependent on China&#x27;s manufacturing -- and US conglomerates so dependent on China&#x27;s population as prospective customers (e.g. NBA).<p>As adults, presumably we have at least _some_ control over our situations. For kids, it must often be torture -- right out of a CIA playbook -- make them feel the loss of control&#x2F;agency.<p>The extreme capriciousnous of covid is now seemingly reflected in everyday life for most people, but especially anyone without real agency (kids, the poor&#x2F;working class, the elderly, etc.).<p>And global warming risks&#x2F;effects like Covid are just starting to hockey-stick.<p>failed political system. failed media. failed health care system. failing civil society. failing nation.<p>i&#x27;m not ready to give up, but we&#x27;re in a bad way, and i feel like these Colorado kids might be sending us a desperate message -- we need to act differently, or maybe just act at all.