America’s Mental Health Crisis
Young people are contending with anxiety, jails have become de facto mental health centers, and deaths are rising from drug overdoes—but we know the way forward, if we have the will. Our nation is facing a new public health threat. Accelerated but not solely caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, feelings of anxiety and depression have grown to levels where virtually no one can ignore what is happening. A CNN/Kaiser Family Foundation poll put a number to it: 90% of Americans feel we are in a mental health crisis.