{"id":35327,"date":"2023-11-18T11:57:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-18T11:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/pastors\/preaching\/sermon-illustrations\/doctor-cant-solve-youth-suicide-crisis\/"},"modified":"2023-11-18T11:57:00","modified_gmt":"2023-11-18T11:57:00","slug":"doctor-cant-solve-youth-suicide-crisis","status":"publish","type":"sermon-illustrations","link":"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/pastors\/preaching\/sermon-illustrations\/doctor-cant-solve-youth-suicide-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Doctor Can\u2019t Solve the Youth Suicide Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new study found that hospitalizations for pediatric suicidal behavior increased by 163 percent over an 11-year period. According to an article in <em>The New York Times<\/em>, &ldquo;The portion of American hospital beds occupied by children with suicidal or self-harming behavior has soared over the course of a decade &hellip; The study did not include psychiatric hospitals, or reflect the years of the coronavirus pandemic, suggesting that it is a considerable undercount.&rdquo;<\/p>\n\n<p>A doctor quoted in the article lamented, &ldquo;The hospital ends up being the place you go when all else fails. Could you have nipped it in the bud earlier? That is a systems-of-care problem.&rdquo; She added, &ldquo;This is playing itself out in an attention-grabbing way.&rdquo;<\/p>\n\n<p>One the study&rsquo;s co-authors, pointed to &ldquo;a growing use of social media among children and adolescents and in particular, growing use among younger adolescents,&rdquo; which she said had been shown to increase symptoms of depression.<\/p>\n\n<p>Whatever the reason, she added, &ldquo;we don&rsquo;t have the magic formula to figure out how to dial this back and make things better.&rdquo;<\/p>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading is-style-article-subhead2\">Possible Preaching Angle:<\/h2>\n\n<p><em>Note the crying need for the gospel and for the church, especially considering the quote at the end&mdash;&ldquo;we don&rsquo;t have the magic formula to figure out how to dial this back and make things better.&rdquo;<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":0,"template":"","tax_ctp_audience":[],"tax_ctp_authors":[],"tax_ctp_categories":[165],"tax_ctp_format":[171],"tax_ctp_illustration_types":[411],"tax_ctp_multimedia":[],"tax_ctp_point_editor":[446],"tax_publications":[140],"tax_ctp_tags":[3716,3762,3766,3861,4168,4180,4254,4261,4442,4445,4701,4873,4915,4923,4935,5086,5091,5105,5313],"tax_ctp_topics":[396,400],"class_list":["post-35327","sermon-illustrations","type-sermon-illustrations","status-publish","hentry","tax_publications-ct-pastors","tax_ctp_tags-crisis","tax_ctp_tags-depravity","tax_ctp_tags-despair","tax_ctp_tags-emptiness","tax_ctp_tags-hopelessness","tax_ctp_tags-human-limitations","tax_ctp_tags-insecurity","tax_ctp_tags-instability","tax_ctp_tags-meaning-of-life","tax_ctp_tags-medical-care","tax_ctp_tags-pressure","tax_ctp_tags-sadness","tax_ctp_tags-self-destruction","tax_ctp_tags-self-image","tax_ctp_tags-self-worth","tax_ctp_tags-stress","tax_ctp_tags-struggles","tax_ctp_tags-suicide","tax_ctp_tags-young-people"],"acf":{"scripture_references":[{"first_verse":null,"add_second_verse":false,"second_verse":null},{"first_verse":null,"add_second_verse":false,"second_verse":null},{"first_verse":null,"add_second_verse":false,"second_verse":null},{"first_verse":null,"add_second_verse":false,"second_verse":null},{"first_verse":null,"add_second_verse":false,"second_verse":null},{"first_verse":null,"add_second_verse":false,"second_verse":null},{"first_verse":null,"add_second_verse":false,"second_verse":null},{"first_verse":null,"add_second_verse":false,"second_verse":null},{"first_verse":null,"add_second_verse":false,"second_verse":null},{"first_verse":null,"add_second_verse":false,"second_verse":null},{"first_verse":null,"add_second_verse":false,"second_verse":null},{"first_verse":null,"add_second_verse":false,"second_verse":null},{"first_verse":null,"add_second_verse":false,"second_verse":null},{"first_verse":null,"add_second_verse":false,"second_verse":null},{"first_verse":null,"add_second_verse":false,"second_verse":null},{"first_verse":null,"add_second_verse":false,"second_verse":null}]},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Doctor Can\u2019t Solve the Youth Suicide Crisis - CT Pastors<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/pastors\/preaching\/sermon-illustrations\/doctor-cant-solve-youth-suicide-crisis\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Doctor Can\u2019t Solve the Youth Suicide Crisis - CT Pastors\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A new study found that hospitalizations for pediatric suicidal behavior increased by 163 percent over an 11-year period. 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