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In brief: Feeling bad in America
In brief
Feeling bad in America
Revealing information on the mental health of Americans appears in data from three random telephone surveys of the adult population by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System.
One survey suggests that mental health may have declined during the 1990s.
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