Gaps form as youth mental health challenges rise

Solving challenges takes system-wide approaches

With over two decades as a counselor in Langdon area schools in rural Cavalier County and as a clinical counselor with Catholic Charities, Barbara Boesl has seen shifts in youth mental health.

Anxiety has supplanted depression as a primary diagnosis for those struggling, both on the youth and adult side, she believes.

“My belief is that (increase in anx…