Depressed High School Students More Likely to Drop Out
Older teens struggling with depression are more than twice as likely to drop out of high school as peers without that mental illness or those who recovered from a bout of depression earlier in life, Canadian researchers say...rates of conduct disorders and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) were higher among the dropouts...But ADHD was not a factor significantly distinguishing dropouts
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