{"id":64324,"date":"2017-10-11T12:25:33","date_gmt":"2017-10-11T16:25:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=64324"},"modified":"2017-10-11T18:55:31","modified_gmt":"2017-10-11T22:55:31","slug":"nyt-why-are-more-american-teenagers-than-ever-suffering-from-severe-anxiety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=64324","title":{"rendered":"(NYT) Why Are More American Teenagers Than Ever Suffering From Severe Anxiety?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"288\" data-total-count=\"10114\"><strong>Anxiety is<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>the<\/strong>\u00a0most common mental-health disorder in the United States, affecting\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hcp.med.harvard.edu\/ncs\/\">nearly one-third of both adolescents and adults<\/a>, according to the National Institute of Mental Health. But unlike depression, with which it routinely occurs, anxiety is often seen as a less serious problem.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"453\" data-total-count=\"10567\">\u201cAnxiety is easy to dismiss or overlook, partially because everyone has it to some degree,\u201d explained Philip Kendall, director of the Child and Adolescent Anxiety Disorders Clinic at Temple University in Philadelphia. It has an evolutionary purpose, after all; it helps us detect and avoid potentially dangerous situations. Highly anxious people, though, have an overactive fight-or-flight response that perceives threats where there often are none.<\/p>\n<p data-para-count=\"453\" data-total-count=\"10567\">But sometimes there are good reasons to feel anxious. For many young people, particularly those raised in abusive families or who live in neighborhoods besieged by poverty or violence, anxiety is a rational reaction to unstable, dangerous circumstances. At the Youth Anxiety Center\u2019s clinic in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan, which serves mostly poor and working-class Hispanic youth, teenagers would object to the definition of anxiety I heard often at Mountain Valley: \u201cThe overestimation of danger and the underestimation of our ability to cope.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/10\/11\/magazine\/why-are-more-american-teenagers-than-ever-suffering-from-severe-anxiety.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anxiety is\u00a0the\u00a0most common mental-health disorder in the United States, affecting\u00a0nearly one-third of both adolescents and adults, according to the National Institute of Mental Health. But unlike depression, with which it routinely occurs, anxiety is often seen as a less serious<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=64324\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[209,101,104,98,129,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americau-s-a","category-children","category-health-medicine","category-marriage-family","category-psychology","category-teens-youth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64324"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64326,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64324\/revisions\/64326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}