Aside from the terrible picture this paints and appreciation that this information is coming to light, it is frustrating that the authors chose to paint this as a gendered issue (#1.5) with girls being more impacted than boys. If they had bothered to look up CDC information they would see that teen boys suicide rates doubled during the same time period.

Girls and boys choose different ways to deal with depression and the authors focused on reportable depression and signs of self-harm which are biased gendered measurements of depression.