12.03.2019

Preventing Teen Suicide

Put Away the Screen & Go to Bed
Between 2007 and 2017 suicide has increased by 56% in 10 to 24-year-olds. Since 2011 youthful suicide attempts have increased 400% –– and that's an undercount. There is a compelling link between “problematic internet and social media use and sleep disturbance among youth,” and “these associations contribute to depressive symptoms in this group.”