The US is going through an extreme mental-health crisis among its teenage population.
From 2009 to 2021, the number who said they felt “persistent feelings of sadness or hopelessness” rose from 26% to 44%, the highest level of teenage sadness ever recorded there. This isn’t so different from the UK.
Our teens are suffering in the same way. I have written about teenage anxiety and depression several times in the past few years and the picture just gets worse and worse.
