The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention reports that 10% of students in grades 9-12 have attempted suicide in the last 12 months. At a camp in Georgia, a female attendee about 16 years old, said “Please pray for me. I stay so depressed.”
Several of the other teens nodded in agreement before our group of adult counselors. It’s sad, really — youth was once a season of life usually characterized by unbridled optimism. Today so many of our young people seem paralyzed by fear, stress, and depression.
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