
Mental Health
Mental Illness Is Far More Common Than We Knew
New research suggests that nearly everyone will develop a psychological disorder at some point in their life—but for most, it’s temporary
Jonathan Schaefer is a graduate student in clinical psychology at Duke and a Carolina Consortium on Human Development predoctoral fellow. He studies developmental psychopathology, psychiatric epidemiology and intelligence.
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