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OPINION: Yes, Anxious Teens, Fill the Void. Just Not With Revolutionary Politics.
If there’s a quippy statistic that sums up young people, it’s the following: The average high schooler today has the same level of anxiety as the average psychiatric patient in the 1950s. Dr. Robert Leahy of the American Institute for…