Taking Care

Cosmo has written about women's mental health-in some ways radically-for decades, but we've never done an entire Mental Health issue before. Maybe that's radical too, but we don't think so.

After all, Gen Z is more likely than any prior generation to report having poor mental health, and to quote Vice President Kamala Harris, a key part of transforming how we understand and address mental health includes how we talk about mental health.” My team and believe we should talk about it loudly, honestly, and empathetically, because while our mental health is deeply individual see page 60 for my friend Natasha Bowman's moving story about the breakdown that shattered—and then healed—her life), it’s also increasingly universal see page 88 for our feature report on the daunting new phenomenon of cumulative collective trauma). That's why, on the heels of the government’s 988 Suicide Crisis Lifeline launch, reached out to the vice president to talk about her quest—our communal quest—for a mentally healthier world.

You've spoken before about how this country is in a mental health crisis. We hear the same from our readers all the time: Young Americans are stressed.