“The Inner Pandemic”: National Adolescent Mental Health Emergency.

“The Inner Pandemic”, this is the name of Matt Richtel’s project, where we can see how mental health in American adolescents has become a true national emergency, regarding behaviors such as the high number of adolescent is inmates in a hospital for presenting a mental health problem.

For this reason, in this special report presented in the New York Times, readers, especially adolescents, are invited to go step by step through the dynamics based on questions, data, approaches and solutions so that, among the people of their age support each other and overcome this problem that concerns us all as society.

If you want to delve into the information that contains films, graphic material, testimonials, among others resources, please visit https://www.speakingofsuicide.com/resources/ or read the article https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/23/health/mental-health-crisis-teens.html 

“American adolescence is undergoing a drastic change.”

Matt Richtel

Natalie Proulx | The New York Times