False Talking Helps Many teens who are contemplating suicide want - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Talking about suicide causes youth to consider suicide. False

Talking Helps

Many teens who are contemplating suicide want to talk about it although may not initiate the conversation True

Many teens who are contemplating suicide want to talk about it although may not initiate the conversation True

More teens & young adults die from suicide than from cancer, heart disease, AIDS, birth defects, stroke, pneumonia, influenza, and chronic lung disease, COMBINED True

Most teens who die of suicide had an untreatable mental illness False

90% Treatable

Whites and Hispanics have the highest rates of suicide. False

Natives & Whites

Today's teens are more stressed than adults True

Anxiety can cause depression True

Too much stress can lead to Anxiety and Depression True

Anxiety is the 2nd most commonly diagnosed mental health condition False

Anxiety Ages 12-17 years 2016 2006 1 in 5 1 in 10

Nearly 5% of teens experience a serious bout of Major Depression in High School False

Depression 1 in 8 teens

Depression 1 in 5 get help

Many teens who self harm are “pre-suicidal” False

1 in 4 Self Injure

1 out of 10 Teen Girls has a diagnosable Eating Disorder False

Eating Disorders 1 in 4 teen girls

More than half of young people with a mobile device have sent or received a sext message True

50% Sext

Why are youth hurting more today?

Political Climate

Terror and Violence

Relationships

Uncertain Future

Undefined Success

Parental Issues