MENTAL HEALTH

Pay More Attention to the Girls

Teen girls more hopeless, suicidal than teen boys, survey found

Vanessa Gallman
4 min readMar 23, 2023

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Photo by Joshua Rawson-Harris on Unsplash

Recently, my news feed has included a steady stream about teen girls, feted as “social media influencers,” who committed suicide. Even more unnerving than the loss of a young life is the lack of shock or outrage in the reporting, as if the deaths are as…

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Vanessa Gallman

Experienced journalist, educator and retired opinion-page editor with occasional musings