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New CDC Data On Suicide Shows Americans Can’t Handle Continued Lockdowns
By Tristan Justice, Te Federalist, Ausgust 17, 2020:
One in four young adults aged 18-24 reported seriously contemplating suicide within the last 30 days, according to new data released last week from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC).
Story continues below advertisementSixteen percent of those aged 25-44 reported the same as restrictions in the name of COVID-19 implemented to slow its spread promise to stretch into the fall. More than 10 percent of all respondents in the 5,412 person survey said they had given serious consideration to the irreversible act.
The national suicide hotline is 1-800-273-8255. More resources are here.
Anxiety and substance abuse have spiked more than 40 percent among those who said they had suffered a mental or behavioral health condition as a direct result of the coronavirus response. More than 30 percent of those surveyed between June 24-30 reported symptoms of anxiety and depression.
There are online groups for substance abuse recovery. Find resources here, here, and here. Here’s what to do if someone you know is suicidal.
The results of the CDC survey remain largely consistent with Census data in May showing one in three Americans exhibited signs of clinical anxiety and depression while lockdowns exacerbated an existing mental health crisis by mandating isolation and bringing financial devastation throwing more than 40 million out of work in addition to being told to stay home or face added consequences.
As states brace for a second wave in cases this fall, the new data from the CDC should provide caution to policymakers pursuing a second lockdown or dragging out existing lockdowns.
“It’s a re-traumatization, really,” said east Tennessee therapist Allysen Efferson, who emphasized that the “ever-evolving criteria” for re-opening would only hammer at the nation’s already shattered psyche. The nation quickly went from “14 days to slow the spread” in March to “lock everything down until there’s a vaccine,” except for ignored calls for social distancing with a historic breakout of civil unrest.
Public health officials sent mixed messages by justifying mass protests for supposed racial justice while condemning church gatherings. In several states today, worship services of more than 50 people remain banned while mob anarchists burn down churches. One might argue society would be better served if the latter sat through a service or two.
“Faith is such an important component of mental health,” Efferson said, adding that bans on religious gatherings have “eliminated one of the greatest contributors to a person’s positive mental health.”
The research on links between religion and mental health conclusively supports Efferson’s claim.
A systemic review of the academic literature up to 2010 about spirituality and depression conducted by Duke University psychiatrist Harold Koenig found that nearly two-thirds of studies showed a significant association between religious involvement and less depression. About half found a significant reduction in anxiety.
A 2014 study by Columbia University psychologist Lisa Miller found that spirituality and religion can protect individuals from depression by thickening the brain cortex. In 2011, Miller had found that among adults who reported they place a high importance on religion or spirituality, 76 percent were less likely to suffer from a major depressive episode, even when their parents had depression, therefore raising their risk.
While some argue religious services can be replicated online, many churchgoers will say it’s not the same. Adequately meeting the spiritual needs of congregants desperate for hope requires in-person conversation and worship. As Federalist editor Kylee Zempel titled her article on the topic, “Churches Aren’t Avoiding Death By Keeping Their Doors Closed. They’re Ensuring It.”
“My concern,” Efferson said of looming lockdown orders, “is that we’re going to see more of the same but it will be more desperate than before. It’s a retraumatizing of these people who have already been through something traumatic… People are going to lose hope.”
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13 Comments
3 years ago
how are they going to spin orange man bad into this story?
3 years ago
Keep businesses in LOCKDOWN, harming economy….. blame TRUMP!!
Brilliant !!
3 years ago
3 years ago
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AR154U☑ᵀʳᵘᵐᵖ DEPLORABLE 2020
Bill Maher has it exactly backwards…t’is the way with leftist useful idiots.
3 years ago
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AR154U☑ᵀʳᵘᵐᵖ DEPLORABLE 2020
SPOKEN LIKE A REAL MOUTHPIECE FOR THE GEORGE SOROS-IAN GLOBALIST BANKING CLIQUE! OUT OF THE MOUTHS THE HEART SPEAKS!
3 years ago
“A 2014 study by Columbia University psychologist Lisa Miller found that spirituality and religion can protect individuals from depression by thickening the brain cortex. In 2011, Miller had found that among adults who reported they place a high importance on religion or spirituality, 76 percent were less likely to suffer from a major depressive episode, even when their parents had depression, therefore raising their risk.”
Lisa Miller also wrote this article about Obama saying he’s the Antichrist (and the proof she put forth is incontrovertible – that means “foolproof” proof). Belief Watch: Is Obama the Antichrist? https://www.newsweek.com/belief-watch-obama-antichrist-84741
Excerpt:
“Belief Watch: Is Obama the Antichrist?
BY NEWSWEEK STAFF (Senior Newsweek Editor Lisa Miller) ON 11/14/08
On Nov. 5, Todd Strandberg was at his desk, fielding E-mails from around the world. As the editor and founder of RaptureReady.com, his job is to track current events and link them to biblical prophecy in hopes of maintaining his status as “the eBay of prophecy,” the best source online for predictions and calculations concerning the end of the world. Already Barack Obama had drawn the attention of apocalypse watchers after an anonymous e-mail circulated among conservative Christians in October implying that he was the Antichrist. Former “Saturday Night Live” ingénue Victoria Jackson fueled the fire when, according to news reports, she wrote on her Web site that Obama “bears traits that resemble the anti-Christ.” Now Strandberg was receiving up-to-the-minute news from his constituents in Illinois. One of the winning lottery numbers in the president-elect’s home state was 666— which, as everyone knows, is the sign of the Beast (also known as the Antichrist). “It is very eerie, and I take it for a sign as to who he really is,” wrote one of Strandberg’s correspondents.”
3 years ago
Has anyone noticed how the mass shootings have stopped with the china virus (manufactured) crisis? I am not saying it is true but I have suspected the DNC/FBI/CIA orchestrates many of them. I realize that sounds crazy but would it really surprise you? It wouldn’t surprise me.
3 years ago
Reply to
Dave Jensen
My god. You are truly off the rails, dude. Are you sniffing what trump sniffs daily?
3 years ago
Reply to
Tell it to Groucho
Just because you exist on Psychotropic drugs do not assume others are likewise addle-brained users
3 years ago
And those who serve on our Navy’s nuclear submarine fleet just laugh at the idea of being “locked down” for a few months.
3 years ago
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Mohammed_Goldberg
TRUE BUT YOU ARE BEING WELL PAID AND TAKEN CARE OF DURING THAT TIME AND RECOGNIZE THAT YOUR SITUATION ISN’T UNUSUAL FOR THE ENVIRONMENT YOU ARE IN AND THAT IT IS A MOMENTARY PLACE IN TIME! THE LEFTISTS ARE SEEKING TO MAKE THIS FAKE REALITY PERMANENT TO SERVE THE GEORGE SOROS-IAN GLOBALIST BANKING CLIQUE!
3 years ago
Remember Bill Gates is maniacally bent on reducing world populations and has even stated that vaccine programs can be used to reduce populations (Whats in that vaccine?) Ie” recipients of SARS vaccine are most likely to die the next time they are infected with the same SARS virus which is a Covid/Corona virus too.
Suicide is a method of population reduction that delights Bill Gates because it is young people offing themselves before reproducing.
Is the forgoing the reason that Bill Gates and his family do not participate in vaccination programs?
3 years ago
Sounds like the CDC is saying further lock downs wilt kil more Americans than Covid will. Didn’t CDC release a report recently that more Americans are dying from suicides and drug overdoses than from Covid? I know I’ve read that California has had more suicides than Covid deaths. And that’s just suicides, not drug overdoses, too
