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Study: Youth now have more mental health issues

Posted by tom | Feb 10, 2010

What do you think about Study: Youth now have more mental health issues (By Martha Irvine, AP National Writer, January 11, 2010)?  A helpful piece for educators, parents, youth ministers.  HT:  Miller.

The higher rates of depression in youth raised to believe than one can be successful in whatever one desires by just doing it rings true to me. There has been a lack of acknowledgement that

  1. one can't do anything/everything that one puts one's heart to
  2. one may need to try, try, and try again -- first time/one time isn't always enough
  3. each one of us has unique gifts/vocation
Let alone the follower of Christ's acknowledgement that human beings are created in the image of God to be a blessing to the broken creation and all in it to the glory of God, NOT be whatever we desire toward our own advancement.

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