Opinion | Dr. Harold S. Koplewicz: 'We need more stories about how it’s OK to hurt, it’s OK to be honest about it, it’s OK to ask for help. Stories that show there aren’t quick fixes.' - NBCNewsTHINK
That is why “Dear Evan Hansen” is so valuable. I can’t recall a more evocative and revealing portrait of adolescents who struggle, parents who struggle to raise them, and the real impact of mental health disorders on our young people.
But most potent of all, it shows that even good people make bad decisions, especially in situations where all the options are painful. It presents adolescents who make bad choices as forgivable. And it presents making those choices as a part of adolescence. This is important because adolescents often feel they’re doomed by a mistake — that’s part of the intensity of emotions that comes with their stage of brain development.
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