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Did you have any idea a staggering percentage of young people were emotionally suffering between 2014 and 2024? That’s a large span of time, I know. Yet, shocking, nonetheless. Here’s the headline: “Suicide claims more Gen Z lives than previous generation.”

A Stateline analysis brought forth this reality. “For Gen Z adults,” the outlet wrote, “the oldest of whom are now reaching their late 20s, suicide is taking more lives than 10 years ago when millennials were the same age.” Breaking it down further, black and Hispanic men, mostly in southern and midwestern states, make up roughly 85% of the increase, with suicide becoming the second-highest cause of death for young Hispanics. For Asians, suicide became the number one cause of death.

Reportedly, the states with the h

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