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'Boys are disappearing' from mental health care, as signs of depression and anxiety go undetected

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/depression-anxiety-teen-boys-diagnosis-undetected-rcna141649

While girls typically show sadness through emotions, boys’ symptoms of depression may be swept aside as “typical” teenage behavior.

'Boys are disappearing' from mental health care, as signs of depression and anxiety go undetected

Research found while antidepressant prescriptions have risen dramatically in the US for teenage girls and women in their 20s, the rate of such prescriptions for young men “declined abruptly during March 2020 and did not recover.”

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It was all group therapy and I hated repeating myself all the time.

My experience was similar.

You go to therapy to be listened to, and instead you end repeating yourself 100 times because nobody is fucking listening. It was legitimately more frustrating than not going, because I was literally paying money to have someone listen to me and they still couldn't fucking do it.

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