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'Boys are disappearing' from mental :marseymindblown: health care as signs of depression :marseydeadinside: go undetected

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/depression-anxiety-teen-boys-diagnosis-undetected-rcna141649

A recent study published in the journal Pediatrics found that while antidepressant prescriptions have risen dramatically for teenage girls and women in their 20s, the rate of such prescriptions for young men “declined abruptly during March 2020 and did not recover.”

:marseytransmerchant: toxic masculinity is not being medicated all the time :soyjakhipster:

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“We have this very classic understanding of depression as being sad, being tearful, crying more, not eating as much and losing weight,” said Dr. Lauren Teverbaugh, pediatrician and child psychiatrist at Tulane University in New Orleans. “That's just not how it looks for a lot of young boys.”

>act sad
>you're depressed
>act happy
>also a sign of depression

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>anyway, take this pill, $300 pls

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