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I love how none of these people spend any time IN the hospitals with these kids. Well I have. Over 5 years. My daughter spent from 14-17 in 6 hospitals, 3 months in wilderness therapy, 8 months in a state residential treatment locked facility. Then she went to a Special Ed school for kids who have been in these places. Almost all of them there for suicide attempts. Because unless you are trying suicide you can't get in! There is no funding for anything less han the ultimate safety call.

You have to understand, the behavior risk kids go to other tailored facilities. The addicts have their own programs. So there is a highly seleactive cohort of kids in the top line mental health facilities who can be studied... no kne does. By top line I mean "highest level of care". Literally the suicide kids. Anything less is outpatient over and over until they try suicide again and again. Then they bump you up.

I can say HANDS DOWN definitively, 1000%, these kids don't care what's going in in the world. They have NO CLUE what's happening with climate change. This is ridiculous. Literally just walk into a hospital and ask the staff. Most of those kids are years behind grade level. They couldn't tell you the name of a news paper let alone what's in it. We were the ONLY family in the state of MA who has ever brought a lawyer to an intake. That's what we were told. Sure suicide hits all walks of life but you would be surprised how many are working class/blue collar. We don't hear about them because they "take their meds" or often go to jail.

These kids are suffering from TRAUMA. End Stop. Trauma that is exacerbated 24/7 by access to a little portable self-sooth machine called a cell phone with social media. That's it!

It could be family trauma, rape (lots of sexual assault), divorce (lots of nasty divorce), trafficing, lots of eating disorders... and layered in almost of the cases are things like untreated dyslexia, adhd and autism. The untreated part is key, because these kids lilive life being tortured for being different. Often bullied by their own parents. THAT'S traumatic. Mostly, it's kids whose parents are struggling with controling their own emotions with and around kids who have poorly treated underlying mental health or neuro divergent issues. And the kids go deep into anxiety and then self sooth with social media till their hearts and minds brake.

There is nothing more in those hospitals. Ask the staff! Ask the people running these places! No one asks. Its ALL just political commentary on made up hypotheses. Literally not one kid I have ever met in these places was suicidal over discrimination or the world falling apart. That's laughable! They are suicidal because they feel unloved! But the adults can't seem to handle the guilt so we just ignore it. Its sick. But its also very easy to figure this out if you ask the right people the right questions. Journalists are WILLFULLY ignoring searching for the truth.

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