Results from the CDC's 2021 Youth Risk Behavior Survey show startling trends. Nearly 3 in 5 teen girls (57%) said they felt "persistently sad or hopeless." That's the highest rate in a decade.
And 30% said they have seriously considered dying by suicide a percentage that's risen by nearly 60% over the past 10 years. "The numbers are unprecedented."
The survey, which has been conducted every other year for three decades, includes responses from 17,232 U.S. high school students.
Overall, more than 40% of boys and girls said that they'd felt so sad or hopeless within the past year that they were unable to do their regular activities, such as schoolwork or sports, for at least two weeks.
When researchers looked at gender differences, girls were far more likely to report such feelings than boys.
The CDC survey found that more than 1 in 5 such youth, 22%, had attempted suicide within the past year.
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