From an article at France 24 where young people are described as the “Ghost Generation”:
The distress experienced by many French students made shocking headlines this week after a student leapt from the fourth floor of his university residence in the eastern city of Lyon. He remains in critical condition.
Days later, a fellow student at a nearby university was restrained after threatening to jump out of her window.
While it is too early to determine the cause of the attempted suicides, students, teachers and health workers have long been warning about the emotional and academic impacts of prolonged remote learning. LINK
As such, the question becomes: Does quarantine, self-isolation and other forms of domestic incarceration cause more harm than good? From an article at Inside Higher Ed, entitled “Pandemic Increasing Suicidal Ideation”:
Alongside the CDC data, other reports predict the pandemic and recession will lead to a rise in suicides. The Well Being Trust predicts there will be as many at 75,000 “deaths of despair” from the pandemic, stemming from substance misuse or suicide. Other research has shown the relationship between unemployment and suicide rates.
And that:
Over all, about 11 percent of respondents said they had seriously considered suicide over the past 30 days. Those aged 18 to 24 were significantly more likely to report this, with 25.5 percent saying they had seriously considered suicide. Minority groups and essential workers were also much more likely to report considering suicide.
An increase of medical and political interest in the percentage of people that have survived and of those that have developed a natural immunity to the new coronavirus would likely deescalate the media message of death and doom, and create more imminent path and optimism for a post-crisis era.
From an article last August at Scientific American:
Another epidemic besides COVID-19 stalks the land. This one takes a heavy toll on the young. It has been raging ever more lethally for the past 20 years with no flattening of the curve in sight: an American epidemic of suicide. LINK
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