Adolescent Anxiety and Depression in Time magazine on this edition of Truth and Love.

I'm Heath Lambert and you're listening to Truth and Love, a podcast of the Association of Certified Biblical Counselors,

where we seek to provide biblical

solutions for the problems that people face.

In the November 7th edition of Time Magazine, Suzanne Schrobsdorf wrote a fascinating article

called Anxiety, Depression, and the American the American adolescent. The themes of this article

touch on exactly the kinds of things that concern us here at ACBC and on truth and love. It's the themes

of anxiety, depression, and how those problems are experienced by people in particular in this

article in Time magazine,

by adolescents in the United States.

The article reports a very significant problem.

It reports increasing anxiety and depression on the part of teenagers in the U.S.

Susanna Shrobsdorf reports anxiety and depression in high school kids have been on the rise since 2012

after several years of stability.

She goes on to report that girls are at more risk than boys, and she says in 2015,

about 3 million teens, ages 12 to 17, had had at least one major

depressive episode in the past year, according to the Department of Health and Human Services.

And she later says about 30% of girls and 20% of boys, totaling 6.3 million teens, have had an

anxiety disorder according to data from the National Institute

of Mental Health. So she's talking about a problem of a growing number of teenagers

experiencing depression and anxiety. She also goes on to explain how this problem manifests itself,

and she spends a great deal of time in the

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