NBC News: ‘Boys are disappearing’ from mental health care as signs of depression go undetected
March 19, 2024
Kao-Ping Chua, MD, PhD, of CHEAR was recently quoted by NBC News.
“In males, it’s theoretically possible that this reflects improved mental health, but I’m struggling with that explanation,” Chua said. “Given that everybody’s mental health got worse, I would have expected that boys’ antidepressant dispensing would have at least remained stable, not decrease.”
“There was something happening to make male adolescents not come in for mental health,” Chua said. “They didn’t go to their doctors. They skipped physicals.”
“Boys are disappearing,” he said.