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

“In males, it's theoretically possible that this reflects improved mental health, but I'm struggling with that explanation,” Chua said. “Given that everybody's mental health got worse, I would have expected that boys' antidepressant dispensing would have at least remained stable, not decrease.” The more likely explanation in Chua's experience as a pediatrician, he said, was that boys stopped engaging with the health care system overall during the pandemic, leading to an underdetection and, consequently, an undertreatment of mental health problems in young men. “There was something happening to make male adolescents not come in for mental health,” Chua said. “They didn't go to their doctors. They skipped physicals.” “Boys are disappearing,” he said.

!fellas Did something happen in 2020 that made you not want to go to doctors? Maybe the started enforcing some straggy dress code? Maybe they made so insane inconvenient to enter into any medical building (hand wash under supervision from a nurse, temperature check from same nurse, oops u have a '''fever''' frick off)

!nooticers Notice how the doctor tacitly suggests that his magic pills are the only treatment for depression? That males couldn't have simply found other treatments (like working out)

And who even gets physicals? I don't think I've had one ever, at least not in my adult life.

Women have long been much more likely to be diagnosed with depression than men. But a 2013 study found that when “irritability” is considered a main symptom, the rate of depression actually equalized between the sexes: 30.6% of men and 33.3% of women.

wtf. If 1/3rd of the population has depression it's not a mental illness anymore it's just a fact of life.

Teachers, coaches and other caregivers outside of the home are on the front lines of monitoring teen mental health, Tulane's Teverbaugh said.

And are widely hated for it. I can't tell you how many times as a teen I had some wanna be do gooder try to insert themselves into my life (sometimes going so far as to demand I accept gifts and car rides from them) because they were "worried". Only good that came of it was i learned how to tell authority figures to frick off and stay in their lane from a young age.