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Just a few years ago, psychologists couldn't say with certainty that kids were even capable of suffering from depression the same way adults do. Now, according to PhRMA, a pharmaceutical trade group, up to 10% of all American kids may suffer from some mental illness. Perhaps twice that many have exhibited some symptoms of depression. Up to a million others may suffer from the alternately depressive and manic mood swings of bipolar disorder (BPD), one more condition that was thought until recently to be an affliction of adults alone. ADHD rates are exploding too. According to a Mayo Clinic...
...player,” Stone says. “And now there’s an opportunity to demonstrate, but also verbalize, to her teammates just how you get to be that successful—the steps you have to take, the sacrifices you have to make, the mental toughness that has to be there in order to achieve some of the things that she’s been able to achieve...
After a string of 36 straight days of “essences” emanating from the common room of Vito Giuliani Mussolini ’04 and Eldrick Tiger Patel ’04, their tutor has expressed concern about their mental health. In an unprecedented medical miracle, Mussolini and Patel have discovered the cure for mental health problems, which apparently involves a strict regimen of Febreze, lots of ventilation, wet towels under all doors and a strategically placed air purification device...
Kobe doesn’t need basketball. He’s said over and over again how little basketball means to him in the grand scheme of things. If he believes basketball is the best thing for his mental state, then he should go for it. But if basketball is the last thing on his mind right now, perhaps he should take a seat...
...arts, debating politics, whatever. These aren't inborn traits but honed competencies. Whereas early psychometricians, many of them racist, propagated what Lemann calls the dipstick theory--the idea that a test score is like a mark on a dipstick showing the raw amount of intelligence in your mental oil tank--the field outgrew that simplistic notion at least a generation ago. "I don't think anyone believes the SAT or even pure [IQ] tests are--or have ever been--a pure measure of intelligence," says Zwick, the former SAT Committee chair and author of Fair Game? The Use of Standardized...