![]() ![]() Emergency department visits for attempted suicide have risen 51 percent among adolescent girls. In 2019, one in three high school students and half of female students reported persistent feelings of sadness or hopelessness, an overall increase of 40 percent from 2009. An early study has found that students are about five months behind in math and four months behind in reading, compared with students prior to the pandemic. More than half of parents express concern over their children’s mental well-being. Our youth have been particularly impacted as losses from COVID and disruptions in routines and relationships have led to increased social isolation, anxiety, and learning loss. But the grief, trauma, and physical isolation of the last two years have driven Americans to a breaking point. Even before the pandemic, rates of depression and anxiety were inching higher. And, Black and Brown communities are disproportionately undertreated – even as their burden of mental illness has continued to rise. Two out of five adults report symptoms of anxiety or depression. Our country faces an unprecedented mental health crisis among people of all ages. As part of this unity agenda, he will announce a strategy to address our national mental health crisis. In his first State of the Union, the President will outline a unity agenda consisting of policy where there has historically been support from both Republicans and Democrats, and call on Congress to send bills to his desk to deliver progress for the American people. ![]()
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