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Poorest and brightest girls more likely to be depressed – UK study
Research into 14-year-olds renews concern over rising rates of teenage mental illness
They add to growing evidence that teenage girls are particularly vulnerable to mental health difficulties. NHS figures show there were sharp increases between 2005/06 and 2015/16 in the number of girls under 18 admitted to hospital in England because they had self-harmed by cutting (up 285%), poisoning (42%) or hanging themselves (331%).
The Samaritans made an observation in this year's suicide report that there were signs that suicide in young women could be on the rise but it was too early to state it was a definite trend.
Cleverer girls also had a significantly higher risk of having high depressive symptoms at 14, she said, and she was doing further research to calculate that risk more precisely among those with “higher childhood cognitive scores”.
Krause said: “Part of it could be that [brighter girls] have a ‘hyper brain’, a more active brain, which often means they have a much higher emotional reaction to things and they are constantly overthinking things
'Pink brains' Teenage girls brains are more hysterical hyperactive? Or something else the researchers don't think of?
We certainly need to be looking at how the use of social media and cyberbullying may affect girls and boys differently.”
Yes. And why would that be?
Dr Nick Waggett, chief executive of the Association of Child Psychotherapists, said it was unhelpful to highlight bright or poor girls as being at particular risk “when we already now there is a significant burden of mental illness in children and young people, including adolescent girls, and that there is a substantial shortfall in specialist services for them.”
Hmmm.
Depressing read.