The Parent of a Teen-Ager Is an Emotional-Garbage Collector
Briefly

The clinical psychologist Lisa Damour published her latest best-selling book, " The Emotional Lives of Teenagers," in February, a week after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued an alarming report on the mental health of adolescents. In the C.D.C.'s survey, three in five teen-age girls reported having felt "persistently sad and hopeless" in the past year, thirty per cent reported that they had seriously considered suicide, and thirteen per cent said that they had attempted suicide.
Read at The New Yorker
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