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- Culture, Entertainment, Family, Featured, MomThink
- February 9, 2026

The number of Americans receiving some sort of mental or emotional health treatment more than doubled from 2002 to 2024, rising from 27.2 million people to 60 million, a recent Statista article shows. Anxiety and depression are the most commonly cited reasons for seeking treatment. Experts credit this increase to the Covid lockdowns, less stigma attached to
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When I was a kid in Boonville, N.C., I’d occasionally hear a grownup say, “He ain’t got a lick of sense,” meaning someone had just done something really stupid. I’d also hear, “That old boy’s too smart for his own good,” meaning someone with an overabundance of brains unchecked by common sense can bring himself
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A few years ago, I took some adolescent grandchildren to the grocery store and was astonished by their wonderment. One had never set foot in a grocery store, and the others were infrequent visitors, to put it mildly. They learned some things that day, like how to pick out the best bunch of bananas and
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