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Are We or Are We Not in a Youth Mental Health Crisis?

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Emily Edlynn
Jun 03, 2024
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For the last few years, I have felt uneasy about the portrait of today’s teenager as depressed, anxious, and obsessed with technology. This so-called truth tugs at my gut because I spend a lot of time with young people and I wasn’t seeing this portrait in real life. Knowing how impressions instead of information can famously lead humans astray, I stayed…

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