Alarming CDC data on teens shows…
The CDC’s chief medical officer said yesterday that teen girls are “engulfed in a growing wave of sadness, violence, and trauma,” after the agency released a report showing that 57% of teenage girls felt “persistently sad or hopeless” in 2021. That’s the highest rate in a decade and almost twice what was reported by teenage boys.
This is big news for our country. European countries apparently do not have this high of a number. It says alot about the culture of the United States right now. But, in my opinion, there is even a bigger issue. it is something that really tells how bad the situation is with teen girls. That is the fact that girls have the problem 2 times as bad as boys. That gap seems to be getting bigger. This means that girls are feeling the stress way more than the boys.
;That is interesting. One might think that girls and boys are experiencing similar stresses in their life. Why is it that the girls are reacting so much harder than boys are?
Lets try to break this down
There are 3 types of stress: Physical, Chemical and Mental/Emotional. If the combination of these 3 stresses is great enough, it puts the brain into a condition called Sympathetic overdrive. If you child reaches this state of brain function it is very likely that the thoughts will tend toward sadness, violence and hopelessness.
Because boys and girls go to the same schools and do similar activities, It makes sense that boys and girls are exposed to approximately the same type of life experiences. They go to school, have friend drama, have home life stress. But for some reason, girls are 2 times as likely to feel that life is “hopeless”.
This means that one of the 3 stresses is more overwhelming to girls than boys in a significant way. The thing is that it doesn’t have to be the same stress in all the girls. It might be 2 different ones that when the effects are added up they impact girls more than boys.
If you have a girl that is affected like this, there is a breakthrough technology that can help us determine whether this is a problem for your child. We have been using this technology for a number of years and it really helps us get right to the problem. The results are amazing when focus can be brought into the picture. If we can take enough stress off,
Give us a call or email us and we can get a scan set up and find out what is going on. .402-333-4848
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