I found the following article linked to a blog by Therese Borchard called Beyond Blue. On her blog, Therese discusses teen suicide including her experience as a teenager with depression:
Marie Osmond's Son Commits Suicide: Why are so many teens depressed?Hugs,
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"A new study has found that five times as many high school and college students are dealing with anxiety and other mental health issues as youth of the same age who were studied in the Great Depression era. The findings, culled from responses to a popular psychological questionnaire used as far back as 1938, confirm what counselors on campuses nationwide have long suspected as more students struggle with the stresses of school and life in general...
"...The study also showed increases in "psychopathic deviation," which is loosely related to psychopathic behavior in a much milder form and is defined as having trouble with authority and feeling as though the rules don't apply to you. The percentage of young people who scored high in that category increased from 5 percent in 1938 to 24 percent in 2007..."
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