Boys Disappearing From Mental Health Care As Depression Goes Undetected

Source: APA PsycPORT™: Psychology NewswireExperts are warning that boys and young men are not getting the mental health help they need. For example, a recent study in the journal Pediatrics found that while antidepressant prescriptions have risen dramatically for teenage girls and women in their 20s, such prescriptions for young men declined sharply during the COVID pandemic and did not recover. Why? It appears that many boys stopped visiting doctors and disengaged from mental...