Cancer-Suicide-Anxiety-Violence at School: Exploring Causation & Solutions

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“The greatest crisis that America faces today, as big as any of our environmental crises is the chronic disease epidemic in America’s children. The generation of American children born after 1990 is arguably the sickest generation in the history of our country. With chronic ailments and pediatric rates of some chronic conditions that are the highest in the world.” -Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. – Chairman, Children’s Health Defense DISCLAIMER: Every effort is made to ensure accurate information is shared within these video messages. However, if you believe that anything is incorrect, I would appreciate your respectfully letting me know, via email, along with supporting reference link(s). If appropriate, I will issue a retraction or correction – thank you. To reserve your space in upcoming ROUNDTABLE, simply send email to: studio_luna@comcast.net with RESERVE in subject line – you will receive confirmation shortly. LIST of Some of the Topics to be Covered in this Roundtable Session: • Health Effects of Non-ionizing Radiation in Children • Peer-reviewed, published scientific studies showing biological effects from RFR/EMF • Symptoms of Exposure to Microwave Radiation • Proven links between EMFs (microwave radiation) emitting from wireless devices and: Cancer, Depression, Suicide, Violence, Anxiety, Addiction, Isolation, Behavioral Issues, Heart Episodes, Infertility, ADD/ADHD, Compromised Ability to Learn, Reduced Lifestyle and Social Skills, Headaches – Dizziness – Nose/Ear Bleeds – Brain Fog – Difficulty Concentrating, Cancer and Suicide Clusters, etc. • Teacher Retention Challenges • Compromised Healing (chronic illness cannot heal properly in toxic environment) • Alternative Treatment Options to Augment and/or Supplement Traditional Protocols • Digital Dementia • Solutions – How to Reduce Exposure – “Digital Detox” • How to Demand Schools Return to 100% WIRED classrooms & Cancel Cell Tower Leases • How and Why Industry & Government Places Profits Before People • Measures You Can Take TODAY to Reverse These Trends • How 5G will intensify the radiation on our planet and especially within our children. • What is the difference between 5G and 5G-Wi-Fi? LINKS TO STUDIES: There are more than 1,000 scientific studies conducted by independent researchers from around the world concerning the biological effects of RF radiation. Here we present some of the most recent. https://www.americansforresponsiblete... BioInitiative Report – 2012--A Rationale for Biologically based Exposure Standards for Low-Intensity Electromagnetic Radiation http://www.bioinitiative.org/ The core of the EMF-Portal is an extensive literature database with an inventory of 28,230 publications and 6,342 summaries of individual scientific studies on the effects of electromagnetic fields. https://www.emf-portal.org/en Link to over 5000 peer reviewed EMF studies: http://www.justproveit.net/content/st... EMF Publications – https://www.emfoff.com/publications/?... Screen Time in Schools – Camilla Rees – on Biological Effects of Electromagnetic Radiation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JS8Bn... Stopping the crisis: Oregon teachers, parents consider solutions to stop classroom outbursts https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hewg4... Millennials Besieged by Chronic Illness: From Age 27, It’s All “Downhill" https://childrenshealthdefense.org/ne... Does Your Child Have Symptoms of Wi-Fi Exposure at School? https://nebula.wsimg.com/a18e5b6de473... A Message to Schools about Wireless http://electromagnetichealth.org/elec... Children’s Health Defense: Exposing Causes, Seeking Justice, Protecting Children https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vkWe... “Turn if Off 4 Kids” Initiative Toolkit http://www.nacst.org/turn-it-off-4-ki... 10 Elements of an Electromagnetically Clean and Conscious School http://manhattanneighbors.org/wp-cont... LINK TO FLYER – “Does your child have symptoms of Wi-Fi exposure at school? http://nebula.wsimg.com/a18e5b6de4734... Message to Schools and Colleges about Wireless Devices and Health https://www.scribd.com/document/28977... Dr. Magda Havas: Wi-Fi in Schools is Safe. True or False? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6v75s... GREAT RESOURCES – PRINTABLES from EHT.org https://ehtrust.org/resources-to-shar...

Canadian hospitals stretched as suicidal and self-harming teens seek help

Emergency rooms across the country seeing spike in teens with self-inflicted injuries

Mental health services are strained as a growing number of teens show up at emergency rooms across Canada with self-inflicted injuries and suicidal thoughts, say pediatric psychiatrists.

"We're seeing twice as many kids as we were 10 years ago," said Dr. Hazen Gandy, division chief of community-based psychiatry at the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario in Ottawa.

"Commonly it's cutting," he said of kids typically aged 12 to 17 who slash their arms, thighs or bellies with everything from razor blades to the sharp edges of protractors.

"It could be burning themselves. It could be bruising themselves by repeatedly banging their fist against the wall. It's a way of kind of giving the body a whole different set of inputs that allows them not to feel so awful inside."

Self-harming is a symptom of deeper issues such as anxiety or depression that stem from complex causes, Gandy said. But what's clear is how climbing caseloads are affecting the health system, he said.

"One of my greatest concerns is that as these services are stressed, greater numbers of mental health providers are now themselves showing wear and tear and are on the verge of burnout," said Gandy. He has practised in Ottawa for 20 years and says he has seen wait times grow to eight to 10 months for outpatient services.

"This is an issue across the country."

Rise in self-inflicted wounds

The hospital says recent statistics show an unprecedented spike in ER visits for kids in mental health crises. In 2012-13, it reported that 2,900 children and teens under 18 sought help — up 64 per cent since 2009-10 and the highest number of pediatric emergency mental health visits in Ontario.

Doctors say they are not only seeing a distressing rise in the number of kids seeking help for self-inflicted wounds, but many specialists report that they don't have the hallmarks of a psychiatric disorder. That is leaving doctors with no clear answers as to why they're seeing so many more kids with these kinds of injuries.

Dr. Kathleen Pajer, chief of psychiatry at the IWK Health Centre in Halifax, says she has watched the number of kids with self-inflicted wounds or suicidal thoughts rise steadily in her ER and colleagues in Canada and the U.S. are seeing the same trend.

They kind of go from pretty average, functioning kids to suddenly they can't cope. They can't manage. They're depressed. They're presenting to emergency departments, hopeless.- Dr. Hazen Gandy, Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario

"A lot of kids don't really meet the criteria for these disorders," she said. "Instead, they seem to be suffering an existential crisis that is sort of, 'I'm empty, I don't know who I am, I don't know where I'm going, I don't have any grounding and I don't know how to manage my negative feelings."'

She suspects there are many factors that may drive teens to hurt themselves. Families are more fragmented, kids in her area appear to be smoking more marijuana and many don't have the skills to deal with stress, conflict or loss, she says.

Gandy agrees and said both girls and boys who show up at the hospital often share a troubling trait: they lack coping skills.

"They don't actually experience a lot of adverse events in their lives," he said of those who enjoy increasingly affluent upbringings with supportive parents.

When something does go wrong — like a breakup, a death or poor grades — many young people are completely thrown, Gandy said.

"They kind of go from pretty average, functioning kids to suddenly they can't cope. They can't manage. They're depressed. They're presenting to emergency departments, hopeless."

Psych consultations on children

Dr. Laurence Katz, a professor of psychiatry at the University of Manitoba who also sees patients at the children's hospital in Winnipeg, agreed that many kids don't have the skills to manage their emotions.

They sometimes turn to self-harm as a result, he said.

"We've had a five-fold increase in the number of psychiatric consultations being done at our children's hospital emergency room in the last 10 and 15 years," he said.

"We're all trying to figure out (why) we've all got this large increase in presentations to our emergency rooms and we don't have answers to that."

He uses a method of treatment called dialectical behaviour therapy, which helps give kids alternative ways of coping so they don't harm themselves.

Many kids also say they've been bullied on social media, but they also appear to be using it as a way to share information on how to self-harm, Pajer said.

She said kids seek related advice online without parents or teachers knowing, contributing to a contagion effect for those struggling to cope with stress or, sometimes, to fit in with others who are cutting.

'Almost a fad to cut now'

Kim St. John, divisional head of child and adolescent psychiatry at the Janeway children's hospital in St. John's, N.L., said the number of children arriving for mental health help has soared over her 25-year career.

"We would probably get maybe two or three in a week maximum," she said. "Now we're getting several in a night."

Many of the young people that I see that cut do it to belong to a group or to stay within a group. They post it on Facebook.- Kim St. John, Janeway children's hospital

The province's largest health authority, Eastern Health, started tracking mental health statistics in 2012. Those results so far suggest the number of youth who arrived at the Janeway emergency department for depression, suicidal thoughts or self-harm jumped to 418 last year from 280 in 2012.

"It has become almost a fad to cut now," St. John said. "And many of the young people that I see that cut do it to belong to a group or to stay within a group. They post it on Facebook."

Bullying in the schoolyard is different than the sort of virtual pile-ons that happen as kids feel emboldened to say things online that they would never say face-to-face, she added.

"Personally, I would love to see that access to social media was significantly restricted until adulthood."

The fallout includes crowded wait rooms and longer waiting lists for outpatient care, doctors say.

Katz said even though demand for adolescent mental heath services has increased, resources have not.

"If a child needs to be contained in a safe place within a hospital then we do that, but it's clearly overburdening our hospital beds," he said.

"There is definitely increased demand and that's creating a crisis in the system."

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Number of children going to ER with suicidal thoughts and attempts has doubled

The number of children and teens in the United States who visited emergency rooms for suicidal thoughts and suicide attempts doubled between 2007 and 2015, according to a new analysis.

Researchers used publicly available data from the National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey, administered by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention every year. From the 300 emergency rooms sampled, the researchers tracked the number of children between 5 and 18 who received a diagnosis of suicidal ideation or suicide attempts each year.

Diagnoses of either condition increased from 580,000 in 2007 to 1.12 million in 2015, according to the study, published Monday in JAMA Pediatrics. The average age of a child at the time of evaluation was 13, and 43% of the visits were in children between 5 and 11.

"The numbers are very alarming," said Dr. Brett Burstein, the lead study author and a pediatric emergency room physician at Montreal Children's Hospital of McGill University Health Centre. "It also represents a larger percentage of all pediatric emergency department visits. Where suicidal behavior among the pediatric population was just 2% of all visits, that's now up to 3.5%."

The findings come as no surprise to child psychiatrists.

"We know that suicide and depression have been rising significantly," said Dr. Gene Beresin, executive director of The Clay Center for Young Healthy Minds at Massachusetts General Hospital and professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, who was not involved in the study.

Depression and a prior suicide attempt are the two biggest risk factors for suicide, and with rates of suicide on the rise, it makes sense for risk factors to increase as well, he explained.

The reason? It's complicated

One reason for the increase in depression and suicidal behaviors may be more stress and pressure on kids, Beresin said.

"Kids are feeling more pressure to achieve, more pressure in school, and are more worried about making a living than in previous years," he said.

Parents and caregivers are also more stressed, Beresin said, adding that rates of suicides have increased in all age groups over the past 20 years and that the stress is passed down to children and teens.

Another reason may be the rise of social media and increasing rates of cyberbullying that have come with it, Beresin said.

Approximately 15% of US high school students report that they've been bullied online in the past year, according to the CDC. A Pew Research Center survey found that the number could be even higher: 59%.

"Cyberbullying can be especially difficult for kids," explained Dr. Neha Chaudhary, child and adolescent psychiatrist at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School and co-founder of Brainstorm: Stanford Lab for Brain Health Innovation and Entrepreneurship. "Unlike in settings like schools, it can fly under the radar without anyone knowing it's happening and without the same repercussions for the bullies."

In isolation, none of these factors has been proven to lead to an increase in suicidal behaviors and ultimately suicide, but taken together, a pattern begins to emerge, Beresin said.

And the country may not be adequately equipped to deal with the problem.

Families left waiting

According to data from the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, the majority of the United States faces a severe shortage of practicing child and adolescent psychiatrists, with fewer than 17 providers available per 100,000 children.

This means many families face long wait times, which can lead to worsening of a child's underlying mental health condition and an eventual need for more treatment sessions than if the condition had been addressed in its early stages, explained Jennifer Mautone, a psychologist in the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.

The available qualified providers face another challenge: communicating with other systems caring for children.

Many systems are aimed at caring for children, including the education, health care, juvenile justice and child welfare systems, said Dr. Barbara Robles-Ramamurthy, a child and adolescent psychiatrist at the Long School of Medicine at UT Health San Antonio who was not involved in the study.

"All of these systems that are supposed to be caring for children oftentimes are not talking to each other," she said. "A lot of times, kids fall through the cracks, and families are not getting the appropriate support they need."

According to a study published in JAMA Pediatrics in February, half of kids in the United States with mental health conditions like depression and anxiety go untreated.

Rising rates of mental health conditions in youth coupled with difficulties accessing care and long waiting lists is a bad combination, Beresin said.

Burstein, who regularly sees children and teens in the emergency department with suicidal behaviors, worries that the rates will continue to increase.

"We are seeing an acceleration of this issue, and I worry that we have not yet seen the peak," he said.

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Another EHS Sufferer Has Taken Their Own Life - RIP Maria August

RIP – Maria Sargent August – EHS Sufferer Who Took Her Own Life

Dear friends,

It is with great sadness that I share with you that another EHS sufferer has taken her own life. For those of you who don’t know what EHS is — it is an extreme sensitivity to all electrical devices and all forms of manmade radiation, which are making many people sick.

Arthur Firstenberg explains:

“Those of us whose injuries are so severe, so devastating that we can no longer ignore them, and who are lucky enough to figure out what has happened to us and why… for lack of a more acceptable term we call our injury “electrical sensitivity,” or worse, “electromagnetic hypersensitivity’ (EHS), a travesty of a name for a disease that affects the whole world and everyone in it, a name as absurd as ‘cyanide sensitivity’ would be if anyone were foolish enough to apply such a name to those poisoned.  The problem is that we are all being electrocuted to a greater or lesser extent, and because society has been in denial about that for more than two hundred years, we invent terms that hide the truth instead of speaking in plain language and admitting what is happening.”
— Arthur Firstenberg, The Invisible Rainbow, Chapter 17.

Maria Sargent August decided to end her suffering, but she left behind a mother who desperately tried to help her daughter by trying to find a safe place for Maria to live — to no avail.

Many people have been touched by Maria and her story, myself included.  Below are her parting words and thoughts as well as a video of Maria being interviewed by Nick Pineault less than a year before her death.  As you listen to her voice, I think you too, will feel the kindness of her soul and her longing to return to a safe way of life — one that is alignment with our Creator’s good and that no longer embraces luciferian technolgoies that can kill us and all life forms.

We have got to be done with these technologies.  We must completely walk away.  We are going down the wrong path.  It is time to change direction.

I pray that whoever reads this will take Maria’s suffering and her courage into their hearts as there are more and more people everyday developing microwave illness and electrohypersensitivity.  I myself, am one of them, and my life has become a constant source of stress and a struggle for survival.  Nobody should have to live this way.  No living thing should have to suffer for the convenience and addiction of others.

Let’s all surround Maria’s soul with love and thank her for what she has given us.  May she be swiftly delivered into the arms of love and return to the Earth only if she wants to and only when the Earth has been restored to its pristine condition.

Fly free sister.  And thank you.

Maria (Sargent) August

Ani Thupten Tsondru

August 3, 1970 – March 12, 2019

On March 12th, I chose to end my Earth Walk and reunite with the Mother of All Things. I wanted to free myself from the straightjacket of electrifying pain and neurological debilitation of Electro-Hypersensitivity (EHS) and Epstein-Barr Virus (EBV). These hidden modern-day epidemics humbled me and connected me to the great suffering of others. Yet, they also shattered and dehumanized me. The constant tension of strange symptoms and crushing pain left me cut off from a life of embodied prayer and active altruism; I felt alienated from my true nature and impotent to be of service. I decided the greater good was to give my life with the aspiration to raise awareness and help others. As Thomas Merton said, “Man has no greater love than that he lay down his life for his friend.”

If anyone asks, you can say I ended my own life. But it would be more accurate to say I died from Electromagnetic Field (EMF) poisoning. I am not ashamed of my actions. They were based on compassion for my own suffering and the desire to prevent more people from becoming sick.

I’m not the first person with Electro-Hypersensitivity (EHS) to die by their own hand, but perhaps I’m the first to publicize it. And that’s my whole intention. Let me be the posterchild for this 21^st century plague. Let me be the impetus for positive change. What sends a stronger message than death? The message is: seek the truth and learn how to protect yourselves. The message is: create housing opportunities for people with EHS.

Manmade Electromagnetic Fields (EMFs) at current astronomical levels are unprecedented in human history. And they are not safe. Human cells cannot function properly under this 24/7 radiation shower. That is why people are getting sick. I chose to die so you would know how important it is to reduce your exposure to this invisible toxin. I chose to die so the world would see that safe camps for EMF refugees are desperately needed.

EHS has all the ingredients of torture: cause someone intolerable pain, separate them from the community, and prevent them from sleeping. Is that a risk you are willing to take? Is that a life you want for your children? It’s much, much easier to prevent than to cure. And those, like me, who get a severe case, find there is nowhere to live, detox, and recover. Let us care for this growing population of our society. Now is the time to start developing wilderness Safe Havens. Every person deserves a safe place to call home.

I do not want a funeral, memorial service, or life celebration. Instead, please help the living by honoring my three final wishes. Thank you and may you be well.

1. Take simple steps to lower your EMF exposure and stay healthy. Organize housing for people sick with EHS. Resources for this are: the fantastic book The Non-Tinfoil Guide to EMFs and the Safe Haven tab at www.HeartMind.info.

2. Cleanse your body of radiation, viruses, heavy metals, and pesticides, which cause EHS and other chronic illnesses, including lupus, Lyme, MS, RA, and cancer. It’s fun and yummy!  Read the beautiful book Life Changing Foods by Anthony William.

3. Take extra good care of each other. Spend time each week in loving service to a sick, injured, or housebound person. Let them know they are not forgotten. This is the true purpose of being human. Resources for this are: the books Everybody Always by Goff, Peace Pilgrim, and the TLC Book tab at www.HeartMind.info.

May my death usher in a new era, an era in which EHS and EBV are taken seriously, diagnosed correctly, treated immediately, and prevented widely. May this be an era of permaculture eco-villages, bountiful food forests, abundant altruism and safe technologies. I gladly sacrifice my life for that purpose. May it be so!

Visit my blog, www.HeartMind.info, for more information and continued updates from friends.  Look for me in the sun, the moon, and the stars. Pray that I’ve melted into Mother Luminosity and am helping all beings, in all worlds, in all ways. May the bodhichitta flourish!

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