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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Tragic.

I think we're just beginning to see the impact of a year and a half of social isolation (and let's face it, of teenagers processing a global pandemic that shut their worlds down in the blink of an eye).

As adults, we've become almost numb to all the ways life has become "changed" "less than" "isolated' and "the new normal." These kids were just beginning to figure out who they are and how they wanted to be in the world when all of this hit. Is it any wonder when we ship them off to school (for many, as one of their first social interactions in a year plus) that many would break? [/quote]

I think you're right.

And the people saying "suicide has always been a thing" are ignoring the fact that young people experienced something we haven't seen in a century and we shouldn't just blow it off as "to be expected." We're all so interested in going back to normal that a lot of people haven't paid attention to repairing the psychological damage at home. They just want to send their kid to a campus as if the colleges will magically get them back to whatever normal was.[/quote]

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