W USA gwałtownie przyrasta liczba samobójstw - także wśród młodzieży.
W okresie od 2006 do 2016 roku liczba samobójstw wśród dzieci i młodzieży w wieku 10 - 17 lat wzrosła o 70 % - wśród populacji Białych oraz o 77 % wśród populacji Murzynów.
Wśród przyczyn odpowiedzialnych za tak drastyczny skok wymienia się - między innymi - uzależnienie dzieci i młodzieży od internetu oraz od portali społecznościach.
Problem nie jest li tylko i wyłącznie ograniczony do Stanów Zjednoczonych Ameryki - ma on wymiar globalny, dotyczy większości społeczeństw żyjących w krajach wysoko rozwiniętych. Zainteresowanych detalami - odsyłam do podlinkowanych materiałów.

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"The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have reported an alarming rise in the number of teen suicides between 2006 and 2016.
Differentiating between white and black youths, the data analysis shows that the number of self-inflicted deaths of white children between the ages of 10 and 17 increased 70 percent during the time span. Black children and teens are less likely to kill themselves, but their suicide rate rose even higher judging from the study: an increase of 77 percent.
In a separate study from last year, CNN reported that the suicide rate among girls between the ages of 15 and 19 rose to a 40-year high in 2015.
A myriad of factors is attributed to the rise. Social media, bullying, and psychotropic drugs have all been named as contributors to the problem."

"The reasons for this increase will be the subject of research studies for years, but I have a theory, which comes from my work with patients in this age group.
For some time now, I have noted that young people- including adolescents, teenagers and those in their 20s- are disconnected from the reality of their own existences. Facebook, Twitter, Tinder and the like have made them think of themselves as mini-reality-TV versions of themselves. Too many of them see their lives as a series of flickering photos or quick videos. They need constant doses of admiration and constant confirmation of their tenuous existence, which come in the form of Facebook "likes" and Twitter "retweets."
This substitution of media for real meaning has not only been shown to weaken their self-esteem and their ability to sustain themselves through adversity, but it can cheapen the value they assign to life in general- including their own lives. If all the world is a stage of pixels, and young people see themselves as their tweets and Snapchat photos, then taking a fist-full of pills could seem like no more than the equivalent of shutting down a Facebook account or turning off an iPhone.
Call it, "Suicide by Social Media."