Mental Health Crisis

Thanking a veteran is easy to do in public. Making help reachable when someone is struggling requires a more durable commitment.

Sexual-health reporting must be accurate enough to inform rather than merely alarm. Treating every disease indicator as though it moves in the same direction hides the problems that most need attention.

Concern for young people should make our claims more careful, not less. A persuasive story about phones, family, or culture is not enough to explain an individual’s illness or tell that person which treatment will help.

A young person in distress needs to be taken seriously. Turning that distress into a sweeping judgment about a generation can obscure the individual who needs help.