The high cost of the pandemic for the mental health of young people in the EU

New York (AFP)

Employment, depression, autolescence and suicides: since the pandemic was triggered by a number of children and young people in the United States suffering from mental retardation, medical alert, educators, fathers and the governor.

Millions of student assistants in 100% virtual classes, many from March, and pass hours in front of their computers, play in person with friends and masters, without attendance classes, sports or music.

“I have a lot of sympathy for me and the other adolescents (…) There are days when I feel really sad and a little desperate. It’s a pesadilla that no one likes”, said Sarah Frank AFP, a young woman 18 years old Tampa, Florida, there is no sale of the casa desde marzo porque vive con familiares de alto riesgo si contraen el covid-19.

“I lost things that I saw so much in my last year of secondary school, I could never have a game of American football, not my graduation party”, lamented Frank, who co-founded the State of Mind Project in July, a meeting with counselors about physical and mental health for adolescents and adolescents.

– Happiness and depression “huge” –

“Sufren students, they were schooled in school for one year,” said Deanna Caputo, a psychologist and mother of two who, since March, has held virtual classes at a public school in Arlington, Virginia.

Caputo, which incorporates a parent association that actively presses on the school repertoire in the Arlington county, detected signs of depression in its 10-year hiatus.

“Dormía hasta el mediodía (…) Comenzó a decir cosos com ‘no soy intelligen’, ‘no sé nada’, ‘no soy bueno para nada'”, recuerda Caputo. “Llora todo el tiempo” y “cada día dice que extraña a sus amigos”.

“Other chicas are very pure. Only I can pick up my own medicine,” said Caputo, who could not help but find an Arlington infantile therapist on demand.

Adolescent suicides are in the United States of America by a date and have no dates until 2020.

But in Clark’s Nevada neighborhood, which included Las Vegas, 19 students committed suicide since March, twice as many as in the same period in 2019. Although the deaths could not be directly attributed to the pandemic, the authorities announced it would announce a close repertoire of the schools.

Carlos Arballo, Lawrence’s media therapy school therapist in a Los Angeles suburb, concludes a distance from March, assuring that “age and depression are enormous”.

“There is no motivation to do school online,” said Brandon, a 13-year-old student of Arlington Public School who has received classes from more than 300 days ago. “Increase social contact” in salons, corridors, cafeteria, dice.

– “A mental health crisis” –

“While adults have had a medical crisis, their children have a mental health crisis,” said Susan Duffy, a professor of pediatrics and emergency medicine at Brown University.

According to the Centers for Control and Prevention of Injuries (CDC, Government), from March to October, visits to hospitals for mental health emergencies from 12 to 17 years will be 31% in relation to 2019, and the the nines of 5 to 11 years, a 24%.

Duffy confirmed this at the Rhode Island Grand Hospital. And he talked to colleagues all over the country, saying that he noted “mayors suicidal ideation”.

“We are getting more chic with the intention of lastmare to be different (…), so much more associated with having the intentions of suicide, the one who is very, very preoccupied,” she said.

The repertoire of schools varies from one school district to another. Currently, a 38% of schools only offer classes online, compared to 62% in September, according to the Burbio site, which analyzes school calendars.

The students “are committed to their professors and adults and to the fullness of their family circle, which many detect the signs of the effects of a crisis, depression, and anxiety,” Duffy explained.

If the virus is killed, the disease will kill a family member – the pandemic will cause 450,000 deaths in the country – as well as economic, food and livelihoods caused by the pandemic, year after year.

A recent CDC report ensures that schoolchildren have their own safety precautions, such as the use of barbeque and social distancing.

But many unions oppose the return of classes, as was the case in Chicago, but ordered the repatriation of primary and lower secondary schools, and the union was forced to do so, demanding vacations for all masters and arranging for a huelga.

Los niños “son rehenes de los syndicatos”, opina Caputo, la psikologa y madre de Arlington.

The pandemic has increased the risk of child abuse, alerting the CDC to assimilation.

“Those who denounce their many professors and teachers (…) When the fathers pierce the experience, there is a tendency to have abusive conduct, and there is alcoholism, physical and emotional abuse” of the nuns, said Caputo.

Some children, however, prefer to have classes online because they can avoid social pressure scams or bullying and dating insults.

But Duffy’s pediatrician made sure that if he had to deal with the “problem”, he would not solve the underlying cause and could lead to an Islamic crime.

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