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    The researchers at the Center for Disease Control & Prevention also warned that the widespread belief among parents and teachers that getting good scores trumps anything else risks obscuring mental health issues plaguing children.

    Shitty parenting 101. I have been there and I broke down at minor setbacks. I lost my mind because of the smallest failures.

    If you do this to you child, in your delusion you are doing the right thing, fuck you.

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      Haven’t studies shown a pretty strong correlation between scores and future income in China?

      FWIW, it’s not like that culture is new. The increase in suicide rates has other drivers. I think it’s far more likely to be driven by social media and social isolation than by academic pressure (which has existed to a similar degree for the past few decades).

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        Let’s not forget the pandemic that they took seriously, saving millions of lives, caused a lot of trauma to a whole generation and kids are vulnerable to that sort of thing.

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          Absolutely. Harsh lockdown policies reduce real social interactions and meaningfully affect mental health. In America, this is reflected in the absolutely dogshit quality of drivers today.

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    The hit in the 11-14 demographic is rather concerning. It’s before the big wave of gaokao prep really hits (and thus precedes the job search stress), so it’s a really concerning demographic without a clear root cause.

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      Oh my god that’s horrible and kind of funny even though it’s super fucked up.

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        “True enough, there are such things as laughless jokes, what Freud called gallows humor. There are real-life situations so hopeless that no relief is imaginable.

        While we were being bombed in Dresden sitting in a cellar with our arms over our heads in case the ceiling fell, one soldier said as though he were a duchess in a mansion on a cold and rainy night, ‘I wonder what the poor people are doing tonight.’ Nobody laughed, but we were still all glad he said it. At least we were still alive! He proved it.”

        ― Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country

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    If it jumped 10% annually since 2010 wouldn’t that make it 130% or am I bad at maths

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    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    China has seen an increase in suicides among young people in recent years, prompting researchers to call for a special program to help them deal with academic pressure.

    The increase is small in absolute numbers yet it contrasts with a decline of 5.3% annually in the 2010-2021 period among all age groups in the country, a drop the researchers said was due to a nationwide mental health program.

    The researchers called on the government to prioritize developing programs targeting children and adolescents that adopt best practices from abroad and allow for the early identification of suicidal behavior.

    Earlier this year, the apparent suicide of a boarding school student named Hu Xinyu gained widespread attention in China, both because the 15-year-old boy had expressed concern beforehand about his grades and how the police handled their investigation.

    Also, many people took to Chinese social media Thursday to express sadness over the death of Hong Kong-born singer and songwriter Coco Lee.

    The researchers at the Center for Disease Control & Prevention also warned that the widespread belief among parents and teachers that getting good scores trumps anything else risks obscuring mental health issues plaguing children.


    The original article contains 402 words, the summary contains 186 words. Saved 54%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!

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    It went from 0.2/100k to 0.8/100k. In aggregate, that’s 800 people? I wonder how much of that is due to improved reporting given the lapse of the one-child policy, though.

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      Suicides averaged over all age groups declined by 5% in the same period, so it can’t just be better reporting. Also that’s an aggregate increase of about 6000, not 800.

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        Better reporting of children in particular because of the lapse of the one-child policy? For a decent amount of time China had “ghost children” that weren’t reported to the government (though you’ll find no reports on this from Western media, it’s a pretty well-established truth in some Chinese circles).

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    The suicide rate for people aged 10 to 24 increased by 56% between 2007 to 2017, according to new data from the CDC.

    https://www.insider.com/cdc-teenage-gen-z-american-suicide-epidemic

    and before you “b-but that’s whataboutism” me, is it not the real whataboutism to be worrying about the “disturbing” jump in youth suicide in China when America’s jump over a similar timespan is just past five times larger?

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      Significant suicide rates can be worrying in multiple places. I don’t see where anyone is making this a US vs China thing

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          Do you see a problem between screaming “10% increase China suicide” versus staying quiet about “500% increase USA suicide”? If you cannot, take a scissors and snip your internet cables.

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              I am not a CIA shill so I also call out China haters and USA bootlickers. I am concerned 50x more about USA suicide rates than that of China, you see. I am concerned about reality, where the bigger concern needs more attention. But some people focus on 0.01% problem because they are deluded or malicious.

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              Is it really that hard not to be using the language of racists? Like is this really a hill you need to be dying on?

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              That’s me, not the admins. Stop being racist when you (inaccurately) criticize China and your comments won’t be deleted. If you can’t help but be racist when you criticize China then you’ll keep getting them deleted.

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      Okay but chill out a bit, dude.

      It’s just a news article and it is worrying, even if the US is worse.

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      Suicide rates increasing anywhere is really bad news. I don’t think people’s assessment of why it’s increasing (academic pressure) is accurate, but the fact that it is increasing is extremely concerning everywhere.

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      You are correct, and the post article doesn’t even include real numbers just percentages with no data backing it up.

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      Do you guys spend every single moment thinking about how bad the US and comparing everything to them?

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      Who the fuck cares about the US.

      Over here in Germany we had an almost three time jump during and directly after lockdown, but it’s still overall a downwards trend. Maybe next time don’t compare your favourite pet country with other countries which are messing up? And don’t use the suffering of kids for cheap political quips?

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      Just because the USA sucks majorly ass doesnt mean other places doesnt suck too… but it might be a waste of time arguing with you since youre from lemmygrad.

      Edit: words

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        It is interesting how USA loves to act like world police, when its own house is a maggot infested shithole. And then, people like you pop up to defend the one sided silent treatment of US media good China media bad.

        Ever wondered why USA’s 5x suicide rates are not talked about by USA, since they do choose to talk about China?