Fall 2023
Only a year into the pandemic, an alarming acceleration was clear when a Pew Research Center survey reported that a third of U.S. adults were experiencing regular sleeplessness and anxiety.
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Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, U.S. teenagers were worried about their mental health. A 2019 Pew Research Center survey found that 70% of teenagers said anxiety and depression were major problems for people their age—topping a list of concerns that also included bullying, drugs, alcohol, poverty, and teen pregnancy. The pandemic has only intensified the discussion around Americans and mental health.
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I was a teenager and I didn’t feel good, so I talked to my internist. She put me on birth control pills, even though I was not yet sexually active. She meant well. She sent me to a psychiatrist—whom I could afford only because I had recently come into money as an actress on a TV show.
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More than a million people in America’s prisons and jails have behavioral health conditions. Many of them probably never needed to be there. This nation incarcerates more people than any other country on the globe, with somewhere between 6 million and 6.5 million under correctional supervision, including prisons, jails, parole, and probation. Exact estimates vary slightly, but we in the field agree that about 16% of this population has some form of significant mental illness.
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More than a decade ago, I experienced severe anxiety while working for an organization that didn’t have the healthiest of cultures. The situation ultimately spiraled into a debilitating depression, which forced me to take a leave of absence from my job, which shattered my sense of self. Ambitious high achievers couldn't have depression, right?
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