Staying Sane May Be Easier Than You Think
The most exciting research in mental health today involves not how to treat mental illness but how to prevent it in the first place.
In any given year, approximately 17% of Americans under 25 have a mental, emotional or behavioral disorder. (Over our lifetime, 46% of us will receive such a diagnosis.) If we reduce the proportion of young people who become mentally ill by even one-quarter, that would mean about 3.8 million saved each year from what can turn into a lifelong struggle.
across several mental illnesses — including obsessive-compulsive disorder, depression and substance dependence — we have about two to three years to intervene and keep short-term symptoms from becoming long-term afflictions.
How do you foster resilience in order to prevent depression?
just seven sessions of this intervention decreased predepression symptoms among the kids and improved the parents' behavior and attitudes.
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