
The teen anxiety epidemic in the US and Australia — and what to do about it
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A study from the Murdoch Research Children's Institute (MCRI) in Australia found that 64% of respondents reported at least three episodes of anxiety or depression in their teen years.
The problem is hardly confined to the United States or to North America. "Adolescence is a time for figuring out how to gain emotional control." Marc Siegel, M.D. is a professor of medicine and medical director of Doctor Radio at NYU Langone Medical Center. He is Fox News Channel's senior medical analyst and author of "COVID: The Politics of Fear and the Power of Science." Follow him on Twitter @drmarcsiegel.
The profoundly important Child to Adolescent Transition Study, recently published in Lancet Psychiatry — the first long-term study of its kind — revealed depression and anxiety in close to two thirds of those studied in Melbourne, Australia, the most ever found anywhere.