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ALCHEMY EDITION 73

THE TRUTH On Thursday, US surgeon general Vivek Murthy released a 53 page report detailing the current adolescent mental health crisis. And it is grim. In fact, we've moved past crisis to full on emergency.    Included in the report (you can read the NYTimes synopsis HERE) was the following, which I hope you will really let sink in for a moment.    “In the United States, emergency room visits for suicide attempts rose 51 percent for adolescent girls in early 2021 as compared to the same period in 2019. The figure rose 4 percent for boys.”   We are losing girls. Also boys, but a staggering amount of girls to mental health crisis.    This begs the question, why?    And I've...

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