While girls typically show sadness through emotions, boys’ symptoms of depression may be swept aside as “typical” teenage behavior.

Research found while antidepressant prescriptions have risen dramatically in the US 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.”

  • @AnticorpEnglish
    -3•10 months ago

    Maybe the boys are doing great and don’t need mental healthcare.