High school senior publicly tells 300+ students he is an LGBT teen (by Jonathan Rudolph)
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Trayvon Martin is a 17 year old who was murdered by 28 year old George Zimmerman, a gun-toting, paranoid neighborhood watchman. He thought Trayvon - who had just walked to the store to get some candy - looked suspicious enough to shoot. I… put “OUR children” on the drawing because this could have been ANY of our childen. George Zimmerman took the life of a child, and is roaming free, simply because he is white, and that child was not. We CANNOT sit back and accept this; ALL of us have a responsibilty to PROTECT OUR CHILDREN.
Over the last several decades, both through good economic times and bad, the United States has transformed into the planet’s undisputed worry champion. Around the turn of the millennium, anxiety flew past depression as the most prominent mental health issue in America, and it’s never looked back: With more than 18 percent of adults suffering from an anxiety disorder in any given year, the United States is now the most anxious nation in the world, according to the National Institute of Mental Health. Stress-related ailments cost the nation $300 billion every year in medical bills and lost productivity, while our usage of sedative drugs keeps skyrocketing; just between 1997 and 2004, Americans more than doubled their spending on anti-anxiety medications like Xanax and Valium, from $900 million to $2.1 billion. And this anxious strain hits us well before we reach college.