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Teens and Mental Health

has one or has had one in the past. According to one large study, 32 percent of Americans between ages 13 and 18 have had an anxiety disorder. (For comparison, about 14 percent of Americans up to age 18 have had asthma.) For about one out of four teens with an anxiety disorder (about 8 percent of all teens), the disorder

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It’s likely that someone you know has an anxiety or mood disorder—almost half of all U.S. teens have been affected by them in some way.

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