Many of us grew up in a time when mental health just wasn’t discussed. These days though mental wellness is being promoted in many aspects of daily life and the language of psychiatry has entered the vernacular.
Dr Lucy Foulkes is a psychologist who researches mental health and social development in adolescence. She's a research fellow at both Oxford University and the Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families in the UK and a lecturer at University College London. In a recent article in New Scientist, she questions if things have necessarily changed for the better.
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