Wed Feb 15, 2023 – 6:04 pm EST
(LifeSiteNews) — Recently released data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shows high percentages of American teenage girls, gender-confused kids, and homosexual youth experienced “persistent hopelessness” and suicidality during the pandemic, indicating a worsening trend in mental health.
The study was published earlier this week and is titled “The Youth Risk Behavior Survey Data Summary & Trends Report.” It examines surveillance data and trends over ten years, between 2011 and 2021, “among high school students in the United States (U.S.) related to adolescent health and well-being.”
“As we saw in the 10 years prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, mental health among students overall continues to worsen, with more than 40% of high school students feeling so sad or hopeless that they could not engage in their regular activities for at least two weeks during the previous year,” the data summary states. “We also saw significant increases in the percentage of youth who seriously considered suicide, made a suicide plan, and attempted suicide.”
Persistent feelings of sadness or hopelessness
Specifically, the report outlines that teenage girls and adolescents who self-identified as something other than their biological
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