Children’s Mental Health Is Out Of Control Due To Draconian Covid Measures

The following reports are from the Trends Journal:

Covid Driving Kids Crazy

Dr. Vivek H. Murthy, the U.S. surgeon general, issued a 53-page report on Tuesday that said the COVID-19 outbreak has contributed to the stresses young people face, which has led to a “mental health crisis.”

The Trends Journal has long warned that the tendency for “public health officials” has been to try and scare the public into submission when it comes to coronavirus lockdowns and vaccine mandates. (See: “MENTALLY ILL POLITICIANS CREATING MENTAL ILLNESS,” “LOCKDOWN LUNACY CREATING ‘MENTAL HEALTH PANDEMIC,’” and “COVID LOCKDOWN: MENTAL ILLNESS BLUES.”

Murthy’s public advisory sought to identify a “youth mental health crisis” after the national average of weekly ER visits by teens who tried to kill themselves increased 40 percent in February and March 2021, compared to 2019. The Tampa Bay Times reported that the epidemic’s death toll, concerns about money, and isolation have all contributed to the stress of today’s life. The study said the outbreak exacerbated a trend that was already gaining steam before 2020. (See: “AMERICA IS HAVING A MENTAL BREAKDOWN.”)

We reported in 2019 that the latest research from the National Institute of Mental Health showed that over 46 million American adults are suffering some form of anxiety disorder. Research from the American Psychological Association concluded that two main causes of increased levels of mental distress among younger people are time spent on digital media and lack of sleep.

Some experts say young people in the country are also exposed to social media, which could also play a role in the general feeling of hopelessness.

Young people are bombarded with messages through the media and popular culture that erode their sense of self-worth—telling them they are not good looking enough, popular enough, smart enough, or rich enough. That comes as progress on legitimate, and distressing, issues like climate change, income inequality, racial injustice, the opioid epidemic and gun violence feels too slow.

Murthy wrote, according to The New York Times

Bonnie Nagel, a pediatric neuropsychologist from Oregon University, told the paper that many adolescents have the misguided assumption that they will satisfy their need for a connection by turning to social media, only to realize that they are not satisfied.

I don’t think it is a genuine human connection when talking to somebody with a fake façade online.

she told the paper

In early 2021, emergency department visits in the U.S. for suspected suicide attempts saw a 51 percent jump for adolescent girls, while their male peers saw a four percent increase, according to the report. 

It would be a tragedy if we beat back one public health crisis only to allow another to grow in its place. Mental health challenges in children, adolescents, and young adults are real, and they are widespread. But most importantly, they are treatable, and often preventable.

Murthy wrote

TREND FORECAST: We forecast the true mental toll on young people, who are filled with energy and a lust for life and are being forced to live locked-down lives, will have long-lasting negative implications. 

While much of their lives are going down, this demographic hungers for new messages, sounds, styles, and products to lift their spirits and motivate positive ambitions and desires. Thus, there are very positive OnTrendpreneur® opportunities to fill this gigantic market void.

Schools: The New “ABnormal”

The return to in-person learning, after the COVID War-related closures and other interruptions that began in the 2019-20 school year, has been marked, in many American schools, by behavioral issues, even in those schools thought least-likely to experience such problems. 

An article in The Wall Street Journal on 10 December begins by describing one in a series of recent brawls in a Shreveport, LA high school with an enrollment of some 1,600 students; unusual, uncharacteristic behavior in a school regarded as “academically strong,” and with a 99 percent graduation rate. 

Around the nation, other schools are experiencing increases in unruly behaviors such as talking in class, treating adults and one another disrespectfully and strewing trash about, to more serious issues. In Dallas, disruptive classroom incidents have tripled compared to pre-COVID levels; in Albuquerque parents were advised about a “a rise in violence and unacceptable behaviors,” and the National Association of School Resource Officers reports an increase in gun-related incidents.

Peter Faustino, on the board of the National Association of School Psychologists, says that a normal full academic year’s worth of mental health and behavioral incidents have occurred in just the first three months of the current school year; “I think the pandemic was like an earthquake and I think we are seeing that tidal wave hit shore,” he said.

Some schools are attempting to address the problem with more staffers patrolling the halls, or more counselors. Dallas has eliminated student suspensions, replacing them with counseling. Some school districts have implemented extended holiday closures called “mental health days.”

All that time away from school has stunted many students’ emotional and social maturity and discipline; some have yet to experience a “normal” year of high school. Dallas has instituted a 45-minute social-emotional learning session each morning for elementary school students.

That school in Shreveport is where “Dads on Duty” was formed; fathers of students volunteered and organized to patrol the school and its grounds, to provide discipline and role modeling.

TRENDPOST: The mental health of students, teachers and school staff has been one of the unintended casualties of the COVID War that we had long forecast…  proving once again that the cure can be worse than the disease; see:

• “SCHOOL LOCKDOWNS KILLING STUDENTS” (2 Feb 2021) 
• “SCHOOL SHUTDOWNS = CHILDREN SUFFERING” (17 Nov 2020) 

• “LOCK KIDS DOWN, SCREW THEM UP: SHOOTINGS SHUT DOWN 20 MICHIGAN SCHOOL DISTRICTS” (7 Dec 2021)
• “PITY THE COVID-WEARY TEACHERS” (16 Nov 2021) 

And all these stresses have been imposed on the segments of society at the very least risk from COVID-19; see “VAX KIDS? THE COVID RISK IS ‘TINY'” (13 Jul 2021) and “MORE EVIDENCE KIDS DON’T SPREAD COVID TO ADULTS” (17 Nov 2020).

TREND FORECAST: Not just in America but around the world (with certain notable exceptions, like Sweden, which didn’t lock down schools, didn’t require masks, and recorded no COVID child deaths), we may be seeing the first signs of a new “lost generation”: young people whose emotional growth, social skills and self-control have been permanently stunted. 

It’s a condition not easily remedied, and one from which some—and society at large—may never fully recover (because these damaged children will pass their emotional shortcomings to their own children). 

Again, as we note in this and other Trends Journals, there are prolific OnTrendpreneur® strategic opportunities to create new sounds, styles, products and services to lift their spirits.

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AUTHOR COMMENTARY

Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

Proverbs 22:6

[1] This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. [2] For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, [3] Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, [4] Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; [5] Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.

2 Timothy 3:1-5

These children are royally screwed up, and to have that psychopathic dork Murthy sounds the alarm on children’s mental health is just despicable – when it is he and his government cronies that are cause of the problem.

And, once again, as I continue to note: instead of removing these children from the public school system and have the parents fulfil their roles of actually being fathers and mothers, these children will continue to wax worse and worse in these brain washing and federal prisons for kids. It never ceases to amaze me the lengths some parents will go to be more active in their children’s school, but are so mentally conceited and useless that they do not redirect this energy to actually raising their own child.

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[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).

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