The number of teens hospitalized for suicide ideation or suicide attempts nearly doubled between 2008 and 2015, with the highest increase seen in cent teens.

According to the National Institute of Mental Health, approximately 20 percent of all teens between the ages of 13 and 18 have or will have a serious mental illness.

The University of Texas Dell Medical college is launching a new project designed to improve mental health in teens and adults, thanks to …

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Suicidal Ideation.. This includes ideas about death or dying, wishing they were dead or ideas about dying by suicide. These ideas are not usually persistent, but can be fairly common in people with mental disorders or those with difficult life circumstances.

Mental illnesses are disorders of brain function. They have many causes and result from complex interactions between a person’s genes and their environment.

According to a new analysis, the number of US teens who felt “useless” and “joyless” grew 33 percent between 2010 and 2015, and there was a …

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Do the benefits of social media, like finding support online, outweigh the negative affects social media can have on teens’ mental health?