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A quarter of young adults contemplated suicide during the pandemic, CDC says
- pmiller2 6y agoNot just "contemplated," but "seriously considered," according to the article text. While I wonder what the definition of "seriously considered" is here, it's still pretty alarming that 25.5% of people surveyed aged 18-24 have "seriously considered" ending it all in the past 30 days.
- Pick-A-Hill2019 6y agoI think there might be a slight misunderstanding of what the 25% actually relates to - from the linked CDC pdf "The percentage of respondents who reported having seriously considered suicide in the 30 days before completing the survey (10.7%) was significantly higher among respondents aged 18–24 years (25.5%)". I read that as out of the ~5000 that answered the survey, 10.7% considered suicide and out of that 10.7% subset, 25% of those were in the under 25 age group. I was interested in seeing how that compared to previous years - " The prevalence of symptoms of anxiety disorder was approximately three times those reported in the second quarter of 2019 (25.5% versus 8.1%), and prevalence of depressive disorder was approximately four times that reported in the second quarter of 2019 (24.3% versus 6.5%) (2). However, given the methodological differences and potential unknown biases in survey designs, this analysis might not be directly comparable with data reported on anxiety and depression dis-orders in 2019"