Closed classrooms and remote learning have left many Texas school students dealing with mental health issues including loneliness, depression and thoughts of suicide.
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Shea Wiedemeyer's depression crept in slowly.
The high school freshman had struggled with some anxiety before schools shut down abruptly in March, but in the isolation of the pandemic, cut off from daily interaction with friends and teachers at McCallum High School in Austin, the feelings snowballed.