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   George Takei :verified: 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽 (georgetakei@universeodon.com)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Apr-2023 00:34:44 JST George Takei :verified: 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽

   For the last several years, a great deal of attention has been paid to the psychological pressures on adolescent boys. But what about the girls? Recent studies reveal that depression and anxiety have skyrocketed among teen girls. So, what is being done to counter this troubling trend? Read more at #TheBigPicture https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/depression-surge-teenage-girls-causes

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     Mickey Lloyd (mlbellar@universeodon.com)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Apr-2023 02:11:30 JST Mickey Lloyd

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     @georgetakei

     "Please note, if the fact you exist pisses folks off, the fact you keep on surviving will really get to them." - Hope

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     KidsData (kidsdata@sfba.social)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Apr-2023 02:13:15 JST KidsData

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     @georgetakei Absolutely true. Teen girls have much higher rates of reporting depression-related feelings than their male peers. Here's just one example:
     https://www.kidsdata.org/topic/387/depressive-feelings-gender/table#fmt=533&loc=2&tf=134&ch=78,77,69,305,306,431,1177,1176&sortColumnId=0&sortType=asc

     #Depression #MentalHealth #YouthMentalHealth

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     George Takei :verified: 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽 (georgetakei@universeodon.com)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Apr-2023 02:13:45 JST George Takei :verified: 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽

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     @noblessefemina Frightening trend, indeed...

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     noblessefemina (noblessefemina@fosstodon.org)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Apr-2023 02:13:46 JST noblessefemina

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     @georgetakei It's very hard to not feel sad and hopeless when everytime people like Andrew Tate opens his mouth you see millions of adolescent boys venerating and worshipping him like they have found their second coming of Jesus Christ

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     George Takei :verified: 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽 (georgetakei@universeodon.com)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Apr-2023 02:13:59 JST George Takei :verified: 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽

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     @KidsData Thank you for sharing!

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     Cosmic Librarian (cosmiclibrarian@universeodon.com)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Apr-2023 02:25:45 JST Cosmic Librarian

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     I think this could also be true for adult women. Women made many inroads over the last 50 years. Now it feels like all the hard work and progress are eroding away...