The Price of Perfection: Teen Overachievers Failing at Happiness
Date: October 23, 2006
Written by: Jackie Burrell, The Oakland Tribune

The world may be their oyster, but 22 percent of those fashion label-clad adolescent girls are clinically depressed, which is three times the national level. And boys don't fare any better.

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