On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared the coronavirus a global pandemic putting the world under lockdown. It affected many mentally especially teens who were ordered to stay home. In a CDC survey, it reported that the mental health of adolescents stated that home wasn’t always a safe place. In this survey, it found high rates of reported emotional and physical abuse from a parent or another adult in a child’s home compared to the year before. This also contributed to an increase in suicide attempts in adolescents with more emergency room visits for mental health issues.
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