Sleep: Recognizing its crucial role in mental health and wellbeing
By senior year, only about 15% of high school students get enough sleep. You read that correctly. Teens are supposed to get 8 to 10 hours of sleep. Yet the average high-schooler sleeps six and a half hours a night—and many tell me they’re lucky if they get 5 or 6. Given the alarming state of young people’s mental health these days, it is worth reviewing…