Nearly 1 in 4 teens meet criteria for 'probable serious mental illness': Mission Australia report [ABC.net.au]

Samantha Sangenito 4/20/174:00 AM

The Five Year Mental Health Youth Report presented findings from the past five Mission Australia youth surveys, during which thousands of adolescents answered questions on several topics, including mental health.

The report found that there are more people in the 15-to-19 age category in psychological distress than there were five years ago.

It also found girls were "twice as likely as boys to meet the criteria for having a probable serious mental illness", and almost a third of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander respondents met that criteria, compared with 22.2 per cent for non-Indigenous youth.

[For more of this story, written by Mazoe Ford, go to http://www.abc.net.au/news/201...og-institute/8451736]

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Matt FurlongMember

The musical group Queen wrote the song, "Is this the world we created" pretty much sums it up. When we let big Pharma, and food industry control our health for profit and control, our kids lose. Thank you to the greedy and powerful for letting this happen.

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