A Deeper Look Into The Teen Mental Health Crisis In The U.S.

Nearly half of high schoolers report feeling persistently sad or hopeless in the past year, illuminating how deep the teen mental health crisis is in the U.S. NBC News’ Hallie Jackson spoke with U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy on solutions to help.

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[eddrose]

Braver!!! Keep telling kids they've got something wrong with them and they start to believe it.

[chrisalugbuo]

Me (23) and my brother (18) need anti psychotic medication urgently. We lost our parents from natural causes and we weren't acquainted with other family members since early childhood. Though we've been bullied in school we essentially grew up isolated with our father who he himself was a psychopath and later as he got into his 70s developed Parkinsons and dementia. If someone reads this and happens to have a spare bottle of fast or relatively fast acting antidepressants like ketamine nasal spray can you PLEASE PLEASE ship them to our address. We've never done any drugs or do mischief. We're good young men that need direction but are suffering from neuroinflammation and a whole list of commorbidities due to our chronic depression. If anyone reads this can you help us.

[serena]

The teens now are braver?? Then why is there a problem. Those that say platatudes knowing that its not true doesnt help. The young people today are not very resilient. The opposite is true but why? They are weaker mentaly then the generation before them. We need to say the truth and try to fix it.

[johngoldsworthy]

No fathers and they’re all raised by social media, what do you expect?

[larissam]

These days I just find mainstream/ social media stories and conversations about mental health wildly amusing... as if they aren't a big part of the problem. Mkay. All the studies have shown! Right....uh huh.

[RicklessSanchez]

I hope those kids need to stop being stressful.

[RubenRivera-kbvt]

If mental health “specialists” didn’t say it was okay to we weak not this many people would be suffering from it. Take a look at your own grandparents, I’m pretty sure they didn’t have all the toys that grownups play now days.

[keip]

Both adults and other teenagers don't have the tolerance or "good vibes only" to get it.
I was neglect as a teen emotionally.
I'm still here, alone.

[joshbarker]

Finally, we’re starting to see the boomer mentality of shove it under the rug and “buck up” becoming things of the past

[oldtestament]

It's funny how everyone is sick with something and actually quite sad life is not perfect and people are not perfect and you are not sick just because you have stress or anxiety ect or just don't feel right it's called being a Human stop letting them label you as sick maybe you're just experiencing normal human behavior and problems. Because honestly the last couple of generations have experienced nothing when it comes to hardships they have been total spoiled

[shaggyguzman]

Remove social media and pick up the Holy book. Focus

[jordanleitson]

Ok, start with too much propagated plastic surgery, and finish with a country that took a big poo on it’s own moral compass. Our school systems should be proud of the mentality of our young people as it stands, it’s what the adults wanted.

[crecenciogonzalez]

Only Jesus
Can turn mess
To message trial
Into triump
Victims to victories
Time for Jesus not
Listen to media
👀👀👀👍👍👍👍👍👍

[samboggs]

Smoke a joint and put on some Led Zeppelin...

[DS]

What's that they tell young doctors?!?

Wait until "crisis payment" before accepting positions?

Most people never listened, let them handle it.

Oops.