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[quote=Anonymous]I don't think we can take the stress and pressure of the last two years as anything but the experience of a global pandemic. One of my kids was hospitalized for suicidal ideation at the very beginning of the pandemic. She was struggling with anxiety and depression and was seeing a therapist who wasn't the best fit, and we were just about to make a move to switch therapists and find a psychiatrist for medical treatment and then boom, pandemic, hospital. Despite intensive treatment, she was hospitalized again a year later after a year of Zoom school.

We can't step in the same river twice, but I am pretty confident that she would not have gotten to the point of hospitalization if not for the pandemic and the social isolation (and the fear of social isolation for the first one). Two years (and a lot of treatment) later, she's doing great, but going back to in-person school and activities was such a huge component of that.

I know plenty of kids struggled with anxiety, depression, and suicidal ideation before the pandemic, but the pandemic and the resulting social isolation of teens were such a force multiplier that you just can't take those out of the equation when judging the last two years.[/quote]

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