RAB Source Entry #2 – Leslie Martinez (Updated)

MLA Citation:

Carey, Benedict. “For Some Teens, It’s Been a Year of Anxiety and Trips to the E.R.” The New York Times, The New York Times, 23 Feb. 2021, https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/23/health/coronavirus-mental-health-teens.html. 

Summary:

In “For Some Teens, It’s Been a Year of Anxeity and Trips to the E.R.”, Ann a mother of three from Asheville N.C., talks about the changes from her sociable 13 year old son. He had devloped habits like using marijuana as well as Xanax. Pointing back to the main points ive been discussing about my topic. I’ve mentioned the increase of Teenagers use of drugs and alochol throughout the pandmeic. This is evidence as to not all teenagers were going through good times during isolation. Many suffered experices and made actions pressured by COVID-19. Over time Ann’s son had been gathering an intense amount of anger in which he consciosly hurt himself. These are the actions of a teenager crying out for help. That help unfortunately wasn’t even provided for him with his visit to the hospital. The care for young adults health wasn’t shown at all, nor was it provided enough. Unfortnately, there are so much more situations like these in which many teenagers weren’t provided care. An associate professor of predatrics at Baylor College of Medicine delinates, a child who already had issues with anxeity before the pandemic, has been devolping an increase in anxeity after/during COVID-19.

Reflection:

As I read “For Some Teens ,It’s Been a Year of Anxeity and Trips to the E.R.”, I started to view the parents perspective. Seeing their kids begin habits like drugs or alchol can be a frightening situation. Not all teens communicate to their parents about what goes on in their mind. Not many parents comphrend what we teens go through as well. All I could think was, what was going through my moms head. I shut everyone away and all I wanted to do was stay in my room and sink my body in bed. I hardly ate and I could tell my mom began to worry for my health. As we might not see it from our point of view its important to step into your parents point of view. In the article, Ann the mother of the 13 year old was so concerned for her son. But her son didn’t know how anxious she was. He never communicated with her about his situation. That’s exactly how most parents felt.

I, myself, have gone through so many hardships during the pandemic. Feelings alone, not being able to socialize, consistently feeling trapped, all of these situations made me drown in my room. Every single day that went by it became. harder and harder. I had to accept that I wouldn’t be able to interact with my friends, any time soon. “Isolation” was the pinpoint of every young adult’s problem. Including the beginning of my problems at the start of COVID-19.

Rhetorical/ Genre Analysis:

The article “For Some Teens ,It’s Been a Year of Anxeity and Trips to the E.R.”, was written to the audience of those who read the New York Times. More Specifically to those parents who can relate to Lisa and concerns towards her son. Those with intrest of the hospitals not putting teenagers who has hurt themselves as top prority or at least proivde help. The entire pandemic has become a system overload. It has become a complete failure to assist teenagers with help.

Notable Quotables:

“Families that land in the emergency departments of their local hospitals often find that the clinics are poorly equipped to handle these incoming cases. The staff is better trained to manage physical trauma than the mental variety, and patients are often sent right back home, without proper evaluation or support. In severe cases, they may linger in the emergency department for days before a bed can be found elsewhere.”

“The social isolation since then, over all this time, it just got to him,” said Ann, a consultant living in suburban San Francisco. She, like the other parents in this article, asked that her last name be omitted for privacy and to protect her child. “This is a charming, funny kid, also sensitive and anxious,” she said. “He couldn’t find a job; he couldn’t really go out. And he started using marijuana again, and Xanax.”

“We called 911, and he was taken to the emergency room,” his mother said. “But there they just stitched him up and released him.” The doctors sent him home, she said, “with no support, no therapy, nothing.”