12/22/2023 10:35:36 AMHannah VanSickle

In order to fully understand the rise in present-day mental health challenges among college students and young adults in this country, it is essential to examine the multiple lenses through which it can be viewed. Epidemiologists who write about mental health and youth point to a decade, beginning in 2010, during which rates of anxiety and depression among children and young adults in this country rose markedly. As the pandemic descended, forcing folks into isolation, young people’s inability to socialize and cultivate interpersonal relationships compromised their psychosocial development insofar as building trust, autonomy and identity are concerned.

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