{"id":289,"date":"2016-11-05T11:51:27","date_gmt":"2016-11-05T21:51:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/?p=289"},"modified":"2016-11-05T11:51:27","modified_gmt":"2016-11-05T21:51:27","slug":"the-culture-change-of-america-and-suicides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/05\/the-culture-change-of-america-and-suicides\/","title":{"rendered":"The Culture Change of America and Suicides"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/health\/2016\/11\/04\/more-us-middle-school-students-dying-suicide-than-car-crashes.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/health\/2016\/11\/04\/more-us-middle-school-students-dying-suicide-than-car-crashes.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I came across the following article and it really struck a nerve with me. I was certainly an awkward kid, didn&#8217;t find my way until well into college. Todays figures though with suicides outpacing vehicular deaths is truly disheartening.<\/p>\n<p>I would never contend that there is a singular cause to this painful upward trend in middle schooler deaths, but I often wonder if the pressures of a connected society and bullying have created a more hostile environment for children today than decades past. I can&#8217;t imagine how my life would have been if the attention of bullies didn&#8217;t end when I got back home. People having save-havens somewhere they feel they can be themselves is becoming more and more a rarity and it&#8217;s something that I think parents, teachers and other students need to start paying more attention to.<\/p>\n<p>Depression strikes anyone at any age. Keeping an eye on various depression support groups I&#8217;ve seen the gradual increase. It used to be mostly college students, people in their 20&#8217;s and 30&#8217;s. \u00a0These days we see reports of kids as young as 12 who have been diagnosed and are on medication. When i was 12 I was worried about the school lunch, not what anti-depressants I was going to be on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/health\/2016\/11\/04\/more-us-middle-school-students-dying-suicide-than-car-crashes.html I came across the following article and it really struck a nerve with me. I was certainly an awkward kid, didn&#8217;t find my way until well into college. Todays figures though with suicides outpacing vehicular deaths is truly disheartening. I would never contend that there is a singular cause to this painful upward trend &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/05\/the-culture-change-of-america-and-suicides\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Culture Change of America and Suicides&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[35,15,34],"class_list":["post-289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-depression","tag-media","tag-news","tag-suicide"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7PG4O-4F","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":290,"href":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289\/revisions\/290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}