Here in the UK there is a well charted year on year increase in the reported poor mental health of girls and women, mainly anxiety and depressive disorders. Interestingly this is not the case in boys and men. Curiously no one seems interested in looking at the male population to seek out the protective factors that might be learned that contribute to the far lower levels of anxiety and depression in males generally. Given the continual rise for females we can be certain that what ever we are doing is at the very least completely ineffective, and possibly counter productive.