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Re:Suicide Rates Among Adolescents and Young Adults in the U... by lazyasciiart on Monday June 24, 2019 @01:44PM (#20266237)
Eating disorders are slightly more common than they used to be - I think you're suffering from selection bias.
Re:Suicide Rates Among Adolescents and Young Adults in the U... by armandososa on Monday June 24, 2019 @10:43PM (#20270730)
I most likely am. I had many friends/relatives in my youth with bulimia and anorexia but depression and anxiety were not even in our vocabulary. I'm no expert and I'm just saying what I see, like when talking to a group of friends, except that my group of friends is HN and likes to yell at me for being real dumb.
Re:Suicide Rates Among Adolescents and Young Adults in the U... by lazyasciiart on Tuesday June 25, 2019 @10:57AM (#20274850)
You're not just saying what you see. You are sharing elaborate theories that are demonstrating an inaccurate and unsympathetic perspective of teenagers with mental illness.
Re:Suicide Rates Among Adolescents and Young Adults in the U... by anbop on Monday June 24, 2019 @05:15PM (#20268570)
Is this based on physician diagnosis or some objective metric like fraction of teens with BMI < X?
Re:Suicide Rates Among Adolescents and Young Adults in the U... by lazyasciiart on Monday June 24, 2019 @07:31PM (#20269617)
The fraction of teens with BMI < x is not a measure of how many teens have eating disorders. To pick the simplest possible confounding factor - teens dying of cancer would be false positives.