Over the past three decades, the biggest health threats to teenagers have been binge drinking, drunk driving, pregnancy, and smoking. Today, these have been replaced by soaring rates of mental health disorders—especially anxiety. In a rare public advisory, the Surgeon General recently warned of a devastating mental health crisis among adolescents, creating a national emergency only exacerbated by the pandemic. Anxious Nation explores this epidemic, lifting the shroud of shame around mental health while giving emotional insights into how anxiety arises in our children and impacts our families.
