{"id":73927,"date":"2017-11-24T06:42:34","date_gmt":"2017-11-24T14:42:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/the-number-of-teens-who-are-depressed-is-soaring-and-all-signs-point-to-smartphones"},"modified":"2017-12-02T12:02:07","modified_gmt":"2017-12-02T20:02:07","slug":"the-number-of-teens-who-are-depressed-is-soaring-and-all-signs-point-to-smartphones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/the-number-of-teens-who-are-depressed-is-soaring-and-all-signs-point-to-smartphones","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThe Number of Teens who Are Depressed is Soaring \u2014 and All Signs Point to Smartphones\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-number-of-teens-who-are-depressed-is-soaring-and-all-signs-point-to-smartphones.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>LTRP Note:<\/strong> The following news story is posted for informational purposes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>By Jean Twenge<\/strong> <em><strong> Business Insider<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Around 2012, something started going wrong in the lives of teens.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:none;\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-number-of-teens-who-are-depressed-is-soaring-and-all-signs-point-to-smartphones.jpg\" alt=\"Bigstockphoto.com\" width=\"199\" height=\"277\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-number-of-teens-who-are-depressed-is-soaring-and-all-signs-point-to-smartphones.jpg 432w, http:\/\/www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/bigstock-Depression-And-Sorrow-2458311-500x695.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/bigstock-Depression-And-Sorrow-2458311-768x1068.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/bigstock-Depression-And-Sorrow-2458311.jpg 1151w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px)  100vw, 199px\" \/>In just the five years between 2010 and 2015, the number of U.S. teens who felt useless and joyless \u2013 classic symptoms of depression \u2013 surged 33 percent in large national surveys. Teen suicide attempts increased 23 percent. Even more troubling, the number of 13- to 18-year-olds who committed suicide jumped 31 percent.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com\/blog\/?p=27218\">http:\/\/www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com\/blog\/?p=27218<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LTRP Note: The following news story is posted for informational purposes. By Jean Twenge Business Insider Around 2012, something started going wrong in the lives of teens. In just the five years between 2010 and 2015, the number of U.S. teens who felt useless and joyless \u2013 classic symptoms of depression \u2013 surged 33 percent [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":440,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1512,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile-phones","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/440"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73927"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74108,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73927\/revisions\/74108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}