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ANMH Commends us surgeon general’s Advisory on youth mental health Crisis

ACTNow for Mental Health (ANMH)

Prior to COVID-19, youth and young adults in America were facing a mental health crisis; between 2007 and 2018, the suicide rate among populations ages 10 to 24 increased by 57.4%. [1] Vivek Murthy and his office on the most recent public health Advisory, titled Protecting Youth Mental Health.

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Reflections on the Silicon Valley Teen Suicides-by-Train: Fifteen Years Later

Mad in America

Then, finally, technology offered a solution: insurmountably high fences and surveillance cameras. Was it the increase in cell phone use starting in 2007? Nearly a dozen Palo Alto teens died this way. Finally, the City of Palo Alto put a security guard there. The guard succeeded in wrestling some 18 more teens off of the tracks.

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Why Failed Psychiatry Lives On: Its Industrial Complex, Politics, & Technology Worship

Mad in America

However, in addition to these financial and political explanations, a fundamental cultural reason why psychiatry lives on is Western society’s worship of technology—but I’m getting ahead of myself. million in consulting fees from drug makers from 2000 to 2007. Psychiatry’s technology history is one of repeated failures.