Pediatric Anxiety Diagnoses Surge 300% Over Decade, Study Finds

Children experiencing anxiety disorders face developmental, academic, and social impacts requiring clinical intervention and support.

Over the past decade, something has shifted in the inner lives of American children — or at least in how medicine has learned to see them. Anxiety diagnoses in pediatric primary care have risen 300% since 2014, a number that sits at the intersection of genuine suffering, expanded awareness, and a healthcare system struggling to meet a need it is only beginning to fully name. The children arriving at their pediatrician's office today carry pressures — pandemic disruption, social media, academic strain, a world that hums with adult worry — that have made anxiety not an exception in childhood, bu

Pediatric Anxiety Diagnoses Surge 300% Over Decade, Study Finds

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