Study: Youth now have more mental health issues

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Since this is just a study and not really news, I thought I would post this article here:

A new study has found that five times as many high school and college students are dealing with anxiety and other mental health issues than youth of the same age who were studied in the Great Depression era.

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I have a feeling this is because 5 times as many of the students who have mental health issues are finally being properly diagnosed, treated, and accommodated. Before people often just went through school with disabilities below the radar but only more recently has light been shed on more subtle disabilities, including mental health disorders.
 
maybe so, but they used the same parentage of people to answer the same type of test question that was questioned back in depression era. the result was different today than back then.
 
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maybe so, but they used the same parentage of people to answer the same type of test question that was questioned back in depression era. the result was different today than back then.
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That doesn't account for the fact people might be getting more properly diagnosed nowadays. They might be aware of a mental condition prior to answer the question that they may not have been 80-100 years ago.
 
Nowadays with all the community outreach, these people are not warehoused in big state institutions.
 
That too, a lot of mentally ill people are mainstreamed because their mental illness is treated to a point where they can function in everyday life. For example many people with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder lead typical lives when just a few decades ago they would have been hospitalized for life.
 
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