The number of UK teens requesting help for anxiety has increased by a third in just the past two years, and NHS has yet to respond with more funding or support for adolescent mental health.
- In the BMJ, Collette Isabel Stadler calls out the NHS for its shoddy target-setting: by 2021, NHS aims to ensure that 35% of people under 18 get the mental health help they need.
- She links the upsurge in teen mental health conditions to their social media usage.
- That view finds some support in new studies of the effects of social media on teenage girls, recently highlighted in these virtual pages.