YOUR MENTAL HEALTH GUIDEPresents a mental health guide for teenage girls. Tips on determining the type of bad mood and ways to overcome them; Information on selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, a type of antidepressant; Myths about therapy.Bender, Mic...
Girls engage in more non-fatal self-harm, like cutting, than boys do. This measure shows even steeper increases. For teenage girls, rates of hospitalisation for self-harm have climbed since 2010 in all 11 countries with available data, by an average of 143%. Boys’ average rise was 49%....
Medical News & Perspectives March 28, 2023 Teen Girls Are Faring Worse Than Boys on Nearly All Mental Health Measures—Here’s Why Anita Slomski JAMA. 2023;329(15):1243-1245. doi:10.1001/jama.2023.3402 JAMA Medical News related articles icon Related Articles Original Investigation Pediatric ...
The third issue on the list, which is another mental health problem that is too common among young women, is depression. Many women develop depression in their teenage years, as they face increasing pressure from their peers and society to look and act a certain way (as we touched on earli...
Social media represents a unique form of human interaction that has taken on an outsize role in the lives of teens. This is magnified for teenage girls, for whom every social media interaction may feelconsequential and potentially cataclysmic. Interacting in a fun and positive way with peers on...
"Sometimes there's still a stigma around therapy, especially with parents because (they) want their children to be OK and they take it very personally when we're not," Mairanz explains. "It's unfortunately common for parents to be like, 'You're fine. This is just normal teenage stuff,...
Social media represents a unique form of human interaction that has taken on an outsize role in the lives of teens. This is magnified for teenage girls, for whom every social media interaction may feelconsequential and potentially cataclysmic. ...
It found girls scored consistently lower on life satisfaction, mental well-being and self-rated health, and higher on loneliness, than boys. About a quarter of 15-year-old girls reported feeling lonely most of the time or always in the past year, compared with about one in seven boys. ...
Social media use has been linked to mental health, especially in teenage girls. But a new study argues that the situation may be more serious than experts think. The research involved interviews once a year from 2013 to 2015 with almost 10, 000 children between the ages of 13 and 16 in ...
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