What is it about?
This study tracks suicidal ideation, planning, and attempts among U.S. high school students across six CDC survey cycles from 2013 to 2023, documenting a sustained upward trend that peaked sharply during the COVID-19 pandemic and has not returned to pre-pandemic levels.
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Why is it important?
One in five American high school students seriously considered suicide in 2023. That number was climbing before the pandemic and kept climbing after it. The data make clear this is not a temporary crisis and that prevention systems have not kept pace with the scale of the problem.
Perspectives
The numbers in this paper represent real adolescents in real classrooms. I wrote it because a decade of national surveillance data was sitting in CDC reports without anyone pulling the trend lines together in one place and asking what they mean for the young people behind them.
Dr. Keith Robert Head
Independent Researcher
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This page is a summary of: Ten Years of Adolescent Suicide Trends: A CDC Biennial Survey Analysis, Social Science and Humanities Journal, September 2025, Research and Analysis Journals,
DOI: 10.18535/sshj.v9i09.2042.
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