TIL that the "#youth #mentalhealth crisis" is actually nothing new and has started a long time ago. Between the fifties and the early 2000s, #depression in kids / teens increased 5x to 8x. Same for #anxiety. And it has become much worse since then. One could say that nowerdays, people just find more because they look more. So, let's look at the #suicide rate for #children (CDC data): Increased 3.5 fold between the 50s and 2005 and another 2.4-fold between 2005 and 2020.