Its Life or Death: The Mental Health Crisis Among U.S. Teens
How the reporter Matt Richtel spoke to adolescents and parents for this series. In mid-April, I …
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Leon E. Rosenberg, Geneticist Who Wrote of His Depression, Dies at 89
After working for a while as a peddler, Abraham made enough money to open his …
A Rural Doctor Gave Her All. Then Her Heart Broke.
But as the political climate around Covid-19 grew heated, and as some of Dr. Becher’s …
This Teen Was Prescribed 10 Psychiatric Drugs
Polypharmacy became even more common after 2013, when the clinical definition of A.D.H.D. was updated …
Outcry Over High School Clinic Exposes Deep Divisions on Mental Health
American teenagers are reporting severe levels of anxiety and depression. But when Connecticut moved to expand mental health services in schools, it ran into fierce opposition in one town.
Teens in Distress Are Swamping Pediatricians
Around the country, the setting for adolescent mental health care looks ever more like this doctors office in Kentucky, the next patient arriving every 15 minutes.
Hundreds of Suicidal Teens Sleep in Emergency Rooms. Every Night.
With inpatient psychiatric services in short supply, adolescents are spending days, even weeks, in hospital emergency departments awaiting the help they desperately need.
Can Covid Lead to Impotence?
Some studies find higher rates of erectile dysfunction among men recovering from the illness. But other factors related to the pandemic, like heightened anxiety, may also be to blame.
The Mental Health Crisis Among U.S. Teens
Depression, self-harm and suicide are rising among American adolescents. For M, a 13-year-old in Minnesota, the despair was almost too much to take.